Re: Battlestar Galactica
William T Goodall wrote: Subject: Battlestar Galactica That was not disappointing. Please, please, please, announce **SPOILERS** if you talk about season 4. I live in Korea. I just finished the season 3 DVD set last night (and can't wait for the final set). We don't get it BSG here unless you're on active duty and live on a military post (I'm retired). George A P.S. Season 3 wasn't disappointing either. ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Battlestar Galactica
On Apr 6, 2008, at 12:00 AM, G. D. Akin wrote: P.S. Season 3 wasn't disappointing either. Srsly? There were things I liked, sure -- there were effects that were visually gorgeous, frex the translight jump of the BSG as it fell into atmo, I just about freaked as it vanished, leaving only a flaming imprint of its hull's own ablation in the sky, a fiery ghost and a *beautiful* image I think we'll be seeing again in other series -- but I felt the story began to drag heavily about halfway through (all shipboard, all the time: translation, we shot our eye-candy wad early). Definitely BSG is not about FX. However, it is an SF series, and FX matter. Playing cheap with them, keeping the budget lean visually, forced too much emphasis on the storytelling team -- and I don't think they were fully up to snuff there. That is, when the series had to rely on plot alone without interspace action sequences, I began to see some rather thin places in the plot. 26 eps in a season is too much for a series like BSG. It was much more tantalizing and intense, I thought, when they had more room for a good budget spread for FX throughout the story season, but had to tell a much tighter story in fewer shows. More = less = more. -- Warren Ockrassa Blog | http://indigestible.nightwares.com/ Books | http://books.nightwares.com/ Web | http://www.nightwares.com/ ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Charleton Heston dead at 83
At 09:04 AM Sunday 4/6/2008, Julia Thompson wrote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charleton_Heston I'd link to an obit, but aside from the New York Times, the more reputable papers got the age wrong - sure, he was born in 1924 and died in 2008, but he died before his birthday in 2008, so simple mindless subtraction is not going to result in an accurate age at death. :P NYT obit requires registration: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/06/movies/06heston.html?_r=1blex=1207627200en=68723c5e35a1af24ei=5087%0Aoref=login And the URL is too long, so http://tinyurl.com/5wom85 (Let me know if you get to it without logging in.) He did some acting in science fiction stuff; his filmography is at http://www.imdb.com/name/nm032/ . I think my favorite role of his was as the airplane captain in A Thousand Heros (listed on IMDB as Crash Landing: The Rescue of Flight 232). Julia Yeah, I hated to wake up to that announcement. Although unlike his most famous role, his natural force was abated during the past few years by Alzheimer's . . . . . . ronn! :) ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Battlestar Galactica
Now that The Wire has finished its run, BSG is the best show on television. john On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 11:13 PM, William T Goodall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That was not disappointing. Final 19 Maru -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/ Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. ~Voltaire. ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
