[ SECRET POST #1650 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1650 ⌋


Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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Comments

[cephiedvariable.livejournal.com]

I didn't mean entrenched in pop culture, I meant that BSG's drama and tension was drawn so carefully and completely from the post-911 world-on-fire paranoia that I found the show didn't actually work very hard to cultivate it's own sense of pathos. It was just BAD THINGS ARE HAPPENING AND THINGS ARE BAD CUTE CHILDREN DYING EVERYONE IS GRIM from the start without any build, without any context, without any explanation really? It's utterly dire nature dripping sometimes ridiculous melodrama from every pore with no subtly attempted managed to resonate, I think, because it was shown to a television audience living in a paranoid world and primarily in a nation that's government had worked very hard to make them feel cornered and hunted (coincidentally, also by a religiously "incompatible" society of "fanatics"). I always felt that it was popular (among non-sci fi fans I mean) for the same reason torture porn horror movies sky-rocketed in mass appeal after events like the Abu Gharib scandal; these issues and anxieties are already on people's minds, it doesn't take much to manufacture drama.

Of course, the fact that it was so keyed into the time period it was written in could be beneficial to it's future rep as well! I'm just saying that we're not going to know for a few years yet whether or not it holds up or just looks trite in retrospect. I'm not personally a fan, but I don't debate it should be on "best of" lists, I just side-eye it getting into the top slots.

As for LOST... I think the cultural significance of LOST isn't so much that it's a great sci-fi show. It's that it was one of the shows responsible for changing the way American television has been written for the past few years, for better or worse.

I actually think Farscape is much better than BSG.... for what it is. Farscape wasn't nearly as ambitious as BSG and, especially in the later seasons, it succeeded in being exactly what it wanted to be: a quirky character drama with bizarre aliens, offbeat humour and an exciting (if not terribly deep) plot. BSG tried for more but was... unfortunately pretty conceptually flawed on almost every level despite individual aspects of it being fantastic. :/