Battlestar

[hnpcc]

OK, I watched last night's ep and one small gripe.

The scientist really bugs me. He has 60 years worth of work (?!), no lab techs (?!?!?) and he runs for politics!

Granted, I'd be running away if I had that much work and no help too, but even so.

The whole stereotype of the mad genius is just annoying me. Surely, given that the project is of vital importance and that there's probably a couple of hundred underemployed scientists sitting around on the various ships they could expand the lab and get the flowthrough happening.

I know, I know, dramatic tension etc. But every time I see him sitting there, running 1 experiment per 11 hours (seriously guys, duplicate the machinery? Run more than one sample at a time? Hire a couple of techs and let the mad genius move on to further research?) I start wondering how any scriptwriter can be taking this seriously.

(Then again, I'd be happy leaving the project in the hands of someone who appears to have a serious mental problem.)

Anyway, I'm liking Battlestar. And Go Richard!

Comments

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

Argh! Mental image of him as a "true to life" scientist, i.e. wearing thong panties. It hurts, it hurts :-(

[hnpcc]

No. No, no, no, no, no.

Baaaadd mental images.

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

I am being very mean today. Maybe I should stop. Or maybe I should make a new userpic ;-) Or maybe I should go out and pinch babies and make them cry ;-))

[hnpcc]

Maybe I should stop

Now I ask you, where would be the fun in that?

[dalmeny]

It seems as if they only have one scientist on the whole fleet and he's a raving nutcase. What happened to all the others? It's annoying.

[hnpcc]

Obviously they were at the bench when they were nuked and didn't notice the general panic until it was too late.

Or they were all replaced by cylons really early in the piece...

But yeah. It's annoying. And more so because I doubt that I'd be trusting something as important as the who's a cylon research to one, lone nutjob.

(But then we trust our database searching to R. Hm.)

[dalmeny]

Our continuing impression of the show is that it's almost good. It has some fine actors and some thought went into the world-building. Then they mess it all up with plots that don't work unless the characters are really, really stupid...

[hnpcc]

I have to admit I really enjoy the darkness of it all, but what I would like to see is how ships other than Galactica are coping. I mean, you've got basically a huge, traumatised refugee population: what's going on with them?

Oh and it occured to me last night that obviously Caprica are nothing like Australians: they elected a scientist as a rep. If it'd been us, we'd have elected whichever footy players survived the cull and then wondered how the hell we ended up with Sam Newman, Eddie McGuire and Rove as the Brains Trust.

[profundo-rosso.livejournal.com]

Although the original Star Trek was described as an sf version of the old wild west series Wagon Train, it often struck that Battlestar: Galactica was much closer in theme. The difficulty is, you have to find some way to get your lead actors interacting with these new characters, rather than introduce an entirely new cast (ironically, it was having a regular cast on Star Trek which caused Gene Roddenberry problems, because the studio was more used to the stand-alone format of shows such as Twilight Zone).