Who watched Buffy?

I still haven't seen Dollhouse. I want to. Another of Whedon's great works that was cancelled was Firefly. God that was an awesome show. I love it even more then Star Wars.

I couldn't get into Caprica. It was very stupid in my opinion. Such a let down after BSG which was such a great show.

 

That's one of the things that I liked about the series. It was so dark. Sci fi can come off as cheesy really easily if you're not careful. And one of things that I liked was that not everything was black and white. There were shades of morality. Baltar is the biggest example of that.

 

OK. Sorry. I never saw the old show. Grace Park and Katee Sackhoff both seem perfect for their parts. Sackhoff is manly, but that works when the character is a daredevil pilot. I love the image of Sackhoff/Starbuck clenching a cigar in her teeth with a manic grin after a thrilling victory.

Having seen only the new show, the idea of a male Boomer or Starbuck seems boring to me. Too conventional. The character I least like is Apollo/Jamie Bamber. He looks like a cookie-cutter Hollywood leading man. I felt like I'd seen him many times before. Boring. The women added spice and complexity to the line-up. I don't think it was PC. It was smart casting.

 

My fave was Admiral Adama and then is XO, whose name I am blanking on right now, the one that lost his eye. Gaius was my least favorite character......not so much because he lived despite what he did, I actually don't mind bad guys surviving......hell I root for bad guys in horror movies all the time, but because his story was just to long winded and boring. Reminded me of going to church.

 

"Reminded me of going to church." Remember the very end of the last show? You're not too far off.

 

Colonel Tigh was his name. I didn't care to much for him and I liked his wife even less. Adama was awesome. The Chief was one of my favorites too until the last season.

 

Yeah his wife was annoying. I was pissed that she was "saved" (don't want to give any spoilers to people who haven't watched it) I like Tigh because he was old school all the way and if I was commanding a fleet it would probably be how I would do it, no emotional decisions just decisions that win the war no matter the cost and no matter the lives lost. Ok probably in reality I would just say "(*)(*)(*)(*) it" and fill one of the ships up with all the good looking women and plenty of food and stuff and BC pills and then take off to some distant world and start my own new civilization.

 

He was in control of the fleet for like a day and it all went to hell. He may make a good XO but he's horrible as admiral.

 

Well that wasn't entirely his fault. They guy was battling "I am a cylon, what if I kill everyone syndrome" He was second guessing everything. In the beginning of the series prior to that stuff he was solid as a rock. I guess I should have specified pre and post mental breakdown.

 

Paranoia in enclosed spaces never turns out well for anyone. Unless you're a lawyer. You can totally capitalize on that (*)(*)(*)(*).

 

Dollhouse had an interesting concept that got bogged down in execution. Having seen the entire show, I can see what the earlier episodes were trying to do, but as TV, they didn't make great watching, so I understand perfectly why the show suffered low ratings. After all of the build up the last half of season 2 was actually getting interesting, but it was too little to late.

I would say Caprica suffered from almost exactly the same problem. The last four episodes of the show were great, but the build up to get there was ridiculously long, with the show going into several different directions at once; there was a virtual world storylline, a corporate mogul storyline, a Godfather storyline, a terrorism storyline, a religious conflict, and ultimately out of all that was supposed to be the story of the first Cylon War, but we never got there. The show's ratings were low enough that the last 4 episodes, the good ones when things start to come together, were shown after the show had already been cancelled.