DaveC001
January 13th, 2003, 03:10 PM
Given Moore's mutilated premise - mankind has not ventured out into the stars, there are no other forms of life, and the Cylons are a homegrown creation - there doesn't seem to be any room for the epic sweep that made the original series so special.
Remember: We're discarding all the mythological and spiritual elements, so the Beings of Light, the true origins of Kobol and the mysterious Iblis origins of the Cylons are out. And the Cylons have become more of a "Where's Waldo" in space, as the colonials have to decide who in their midst is a Cylon in disguise. Such is not the stuff of which epics are made.
What's left, then? Well, life aboard the fleet, of course. Moore has said he wants the new show to have a "you are there" naturalistic feel. We already know that means plenty of sex, but I think it also means lots of petty bickering and squabble stories as Laura Roslin butts heads with hard-nosed military leader Willy Adama.
LAURA
"Damn it, Willy, you a$$hole - the teachers on barge 7 need more erasers!"
WILLY
"Up yours, Laura, you &*(&^%! I've got the Kobollian Medal of Honor! Don't try to tell this old war doggie what to do!"
Yeah. That's fun to watch.
Is this what Moore means when he says "you are there?" Because all of us ARE there - we deal with this kind of mundanity on a daily basis in some form or another. We tune in to SciFi to ESCAPE the mundane.
Well, too bad. With Moore's BSG, we get squabbles; we get sex, we get petty little personal intrigue instead of grand storytelling. Moore thinks he is taking the opera out of space opera. What he's really doing is putting the soap into space opera.
Is there really a high demand for Days of Our Lives set in outer space?
Remember: We're discarding all the mythological and spiritual elements, so the Beings of Light, the true origins of Kobol and the mysterious Iblis origins of the Cylons are out. And the Cylons have become more of a "Where's Waldo" in space, as the colonials have to decide who in their midst is a Cylon in disguise. Such is not the stuff of which epics are made.
What's left, then? Well, life aboard the fleet, of course. Moore has said he wants the new show to have a "you are there" naturalistic feel. We already know that means plenty of sex, but I think it also means lots of petty bickering and squabble stories as Laura Roslin butts heads with hard-nosed military leader Willy Adama.
LAURA
"Damn it, Willy, you a$$hole - the teachers on barge 7 need more erasers!"
WILLY
"Up yours, Laura, you &*(&^%! I've got the Kobollian Medal of Honor! Don't try to tell this old war doggie what to do!"
Yeah. That's fun to watch.
Is this what Moore means when he says "you are there?" Because all of us ARE there - we deal with this kind of mundanity on a daily basis in some form or another. We tune in to SciFi to ESCAPE the mundane.
Well, too bad. With Moore's BSG, we get squabbles; we get sex, we get petty little personal intrigue instead of grand storytelling. Moore thinks he is taking the opera out of space opera. What he's really doing is putting the soap into space opera.
Is there really a high demand for Days of Our Lives set in outer space?