Novella - SGU & BSG

[erastes]

This novella wants to be a novel. 

WELL YOU CAN’T. so there.

Lili is still shouting.  If I give in and feed her an hour early, she’ll be hungry again by bedtime.

SGU.  While I’m still enjoying it, I rather wonder about the scriptwriters. No-one is going to be concerned about the crew crashing into the sun in episode FIVE of a new series. Threaten one or two people, and we will believe it; threaten the entire ship and we’ll go “yeah, it’s going to be a very shortlived programme then. Hardly worth paying all that money out for.”

Another thing, though.  If they’ve got these stone things to contact earth – then why the blinkerty blink haven’t they contacted Rodney to come and look at the ship. 1. he’d be hugely excited at the tech 2. He’s the ultimate expert in Ancient stuff 3. He can fix anything 4. OK – if the actor isn’t available, then at LEAST give us a reason why he’s not being called in.

BSG: Something I didn’t understand in the original series and I still don’t understand with this one, is, if Earth is one of the places they went to with their Diaspora, then when did they go? did they infiltrate when the planet was already semi-grown e.g. medieval time, or in modern times, because they couldn’t have been cavemen flying ships.

Also—and I know this is stupid of me, but where’s the hairdresser shop?  It would please me so much to see the beautician on the Battlestar, because everyone’s so beautifully turned out.  Tighe’s wife arrived after several weeks being in hospital, and stepped out of the shuttle perfectly made up and her hair shining and in perfect perfect waves. Gah. At least Starbuck looks messy. 

Comments

[leatherdykeuk.livejournal.com]

BSG -- all this has happened before... all this will be again...JUMP

SGU -- I was with the soldier who said it's a beautiful way to go

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Rush didn't help with all the description of the shaking, and the burning up and the dying...

"It will probably be quick."

Thanks, Rush.

[gehayi.livejournal.com]

Your novella going to be expanded into a novel. You do know that, yeah?

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I think when the rights are up, it definitely will, what I have in my head is too much for the 25k it has to fit into, how i'm even going to get them into bed (and then out of it) in 25k is baffling me.

[lee-rowan.livejournal.com]

BSG: They do eventually place the series in a timeframe we can relate to, but not until the very end.

In the beginning, at least (I thnk it gets blown up, eventually) they do have a ship that would have all the amenities, and Ellen Tigh is just the sort of woman who'd find them.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Good. I wish they'd show that sort of thing. I'd like to see astronauts having their hair done.

It makes so sense, re BSG. If they claim to be the progenitors of mankind on earth. bah. I'm thinking about this too much, aren't I?

:)

[lee-rowan.livejournal.com]

Possibly--but that was the theme of the original show.

I may not be the most objective opinon and it's hard not to spit spoilers. BSG holds together, mostly, but they do leave a few loose ends and I'd have done a lot of things differently. As one dissatisfied reviewer put it at the end, Moore took it from a "people" story (Heinlein, Bujold) to an 'idea' story (Asimov, Clarke) and I found the ending emotionally disappointing, much as I felt about Moore's Star Trek film with Kirk and Picard.

BSG's interesting as hell and has lots of twists, but I thought many of the twists were done simply to be different and show how clever RM was, rather than for any useful purpose, and the pacing gets erratic, especially towards the end. But the technical stuff is superb, the music is excellent, and the actors should have received Emmies - would have, I think, if it hadn't been sci-fi. J Bamber talked about Edward Olmos galvanizing them all to do their best, and they did--I can't offhand think of anyone, even people with a sliver of camera time, who didn't do a first-class job. But...if they had to cut out something, they always lopped out relationship development and left the dogfights and explosions. If BSG were a person, he'd be fascinating date, but I wouldn't marry him - and it's definitely a 'him.'