I keep turning on Galactica and I keep getting bored. And very annoyed. I've started to walk away while it's still on, meaning I'm about to drop it from my viewing lineup.
It's clunky, it's shaky (literally, non-stop camera verite) I want to give the camera man a dramine. It's not just a war picture, it's a constant paranoid war picture.
There's so much paranoia that the show doesn't have the one ingredient necessary for any SF or any war show: hope. It's missing from the show completely. What makes a movie on the London Blitz, or being attacked by Imperial storm troopers is the heroic hope element.
I'm a giant fan of Ron Moore, the producer, who wrote the best ST:NG episodes and who helmed DS9, IMHO the best of the Trek shows. But this is just so disappointing, I'm hanging it up for now. I'll peek back in on Season 2 and see if it's found it's legs, and heart, by then.
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