Somehow, perhaps because my Netflix-enabled xBox360 is now practically a video store in my living room, I ended up watching an episode of Lost. My previous attitude towards Lost was a mixture of contempt and outrage that people where so devoted to it. Some people compared it to BSG. I kept comparing it to...
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Virtuality: Pilot or Movie?
Fox ran a “movie” called Virtuality tonight. Produced by Ronald Moore, the genius who crafted Battlestar Galactica, I thought it would be worth a look. It skitters dangerously close to rehashing things that have been done well already, but there is a core of original thought going on here. In fact, if things evolve...
Why Realtime Television is Still Good
It seems like we’ve been waiting a long time for Hulu. Or Netflix, Tivo, or YouTube. I don’t have to watch my favorite shows when they’re on anymore. I can watch whatever I want, when it’s convenient for me. Yet I watch Battlestar Galactica on Friday night, at 10p.m. I let other things pass...
Battlestar Galactica doesn’t show until when?
Someone forgot to mention to me that the best show on television, halfway through its final season, is going to stop showing new episodes until January. What’s up with that? Why isn’t that a whole other season? And what am I supposed to do on Friday nights in the meantime? Get a life?