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Post the Nine-Hundred and Ninetyth - Rambly Fanish Thoughts
Back in the summer Doctor Who had just ended and BBCA was starting to air Battlestar Galactic and my dad and I said, "Why not?"
So we watched the mini-series and that was awesome and every Saturday night was another two episodes, so now it's Feb and we're nearing the end of season 3 and things have started to bug me.
BSG has a cast of 12-20 or something like that. But each character only talks with one or two others.
Adama talks with Roslin, Tigh, Lee and Kara. He also gives speeches to the audience crew.
Roslin talks with Adama, Lee and a rotating cast of aides/advisers that are seen once or twice and never heard from again.
Lee talks with Adama, Roslin and Kara.
Kara talks with Adama, Lee, Sam and whatever nameless pilots are playing cards in the rec room.
Let's move away from that group.
Tyrol talks with Cally and later on the other secret!cylons.
Cally talks with Tyrol.
Um...
Baltar talks with the invisible lady in his head, Gaeta and Roslin (as one of those rotating advisers).
Gaeta talks with Balter.
Dee talks with, um... people on the radio?
Yeah...
Did I mention that over the course of the show Lee and Dee had a courtship and got married? Without ever talking!
The whole thing that prompted this revelation was me catching a rerun of The West Wing. Another show with a huge cast, but with that show everyone talked to everyone else - even if it was just: "I'm board, what are you doing?" "Real work, go away." "Okay."
It goes back to the idea of showing verses telling. I can't even begin to imagine how awesome BSG would have been if they showed us things (and lost the whole mystic destiny thing).
So we watched the mini-series and that was awesome and every Saturday night was another two episodes, so now it's Feb and we're nearing the end of season 3 and things have started to bug me.
BSG has a cast of 12-20 or something like that. But each character only talks with one or two others.
Adama talks with Roslin, Tigh, Lee and Kara. He also gives speeches to the
Roslin talks with Adama, Lee and a rotating cast of aides/advisers that are seen once or twice and never heard from again.
Lee talks with Adama, Roslin and Kara.
Kara talks with Adama, Lee, Sam and whatever nameless pilots are playing cards in the rec room.
Let's move away from that group.
Tyrol talks with Cally and later on the other secret!cylons.
Cally talks with Tyrol.
Um...
Baltar talks with the invisible lady in his head, Gaeta and Roslin (as one of those rotating advisers).
Gaeta talks with Balter.
Dee talks with, um... people on the radio?
Yeah...
Did I mention that over the course of the show Lee and Dee had a courtship and got married? Without ever talking!
The whole thing that prompted this revelation was me catching a rerun of The West Wing. Another show with a huge cast, but with that show everyone talked to everyone else - even if it was just: "I'm board, what are you doing?" "Real work, go away." "Okay."
It goes back to the idea of showing verses telling. I can't even begin to imagine how awesome BSG would have been if they showed us things (and lost the whole mystic destiny thing).
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Sometimes I'm feeling generous to BSG and I want to say these separations were done on purpose to highlight the insular groupings that the life they had brought about, but I'm probably giving more credit than is due. I tend to think something more mundane like shooting schedules and the like were more the reason.
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For all intents and purposes, Galactic was a closed system. This is why, at the start, you had a member of the deck crew sleeping with a pilot, the techs in CIC gossiping about everyone, ect.
I tend to think something more mundane like shooting schedules and the like were more the reason.
You're probably right, but it's still sad.