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I watched the 1.5hr pilot last night.
Somebody definitely said "Y'know, that Battlestar Galactica sure was a good remake. The handheld cameras gave it a sense of documentary reality and the dramatic tensions sure were cool."
Somebody else said "Yea, it was cool, but y'know, maybe a little too dark."
And thus, SGU was born.
Yep - it has the look and feel of BSG, it looks nothing like Atlantis or SG1 filmically or even in the incidental music/score. They have a few BSG/Lost-type flashbacks and the overall tone is much darker than SG1/Atlantis. Thematically closer to Lost/BSG. Carter and O'Neill makes cameos - O'Neill doesn't crack a joke once. Neither does Carter. Jackson appears - sort of.
Not to say it doesn't have its faults. There's a couple overdramatic scenes and there's one nice situation where they have to make an ethical decision - which is then ruined by a conveniently placed character in a Deus Ex Machina.
I actually really enjoyed it, twas very refreshing. There were absolutely no rocks and trees, trees and rocks..
Or water. (
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Somebody definitely said "Y'know, that Battlestar Galactica sure was a good remake. The handheld cameras gave it a sense of documentary reality and the dramatic tensions sure were cool."
Somebody else said "Yea, it was cool, but y'know, maybe a little too dark."
And thus, SGU was born.
Yep - it has the look and feel of BSG, it looks nothing like Atlantis or SG1 filmically or even in the incidental music/score. They have a few BSG/Lost-type flashbacks and the overall tone is much darker than SG1/Atlantis. Thematically closer to Lost/BSG. Carter and O'Neill makes cameos - O'Neill doesn't crack a joke once. Neither does Carter. Jackson appears - sort of.
Not to say it doesn't have its faults. There's a couple overdramatic scenes and there's one nice situation where they have to make an ethical decision - which is then ruined by a conveniently placed character in a Deus Ex Machina.
I actually really enjoyed it, twas very refreshing. There were absolutely no rocks and trees, trees and rocks..
Or water. (