The characterization is much better than the standard for shows like Star Trek and the original Battlestar Galactica in that the people in the story are individuated and conflict over the things that human beings actually come into conflict over. Moore finds drama where real people experience drama and conflict -- between family members, between romantic partners, between superior and subordinate, between individuals struggling against one another for control.
TV sf generally avoids such things -- the major conflict remains between a team of good guys trying to achieve some simple objective that's built into the series premise and a villain or villains who are capriciously illogical in their methods and without their own ethic in any meaningful sense. I prefer what Moore's doing (and what Whedon generally does); I wish I saw more of it in shows like "Enterprise".
|
