Slate on Battlestar
November 30th, 2006 by Rob
The internet’s best contrarian/liberalist magazine delves into the best show on television. Spoiler alert: Next week, Nathan Fillion will make a surprise cameo in which he fucks Starbuck in the ready room but is thinking about Inara the whole time. ZING!
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Noralil Ryan Fores wrote on 12/3/06 at 10:39 pm :
Journalist Adam Rogers needs somewhat to be smacked in the face with a large and obtrusive rubber ducky. What the hell kind of a lead is that? Who the hell cares that he thinks the title sucks? It’s just a title. There are tons of shows and films with shitty titles, and critics don’t go jumping around like toddlers wearing cowboy and Indian costumes screaming, “That’s a shitty show title. Na-nana-boo-boo!” Then, after that first lead paragraph disaster, he goes on to bore me for not one more, but what six additional paragraphs?
Moreover, the fact that he evoke the EW article tells me something; he aspired in his article to suck just as much as that one did. Other than telling us that A) Battlestar is fighting for viewers & B) Grace Park predicts that when the survivors of the 12 colonies get to Earth, they’ll be blown up by the members of the 13th colony, that article falls completely flat.
Now, granted I haven’t listened to the podcasts, but I have watched the video blog with the conversations about the “Scar” episode. And, you know what I mostly get from those blogs: a desire to put my head under a pillow and suffocate myself. The producer looks like a complete showboat, James Callis actually asks somewhere along the line for Gaius’ motivations- well, luckily he didn’t use those exact words, but it’s damn close enough-, and Jamie Bamber loses his rough and tumble-albeit sensitive–facade by mumbling out a few begruding and snarky comments in his oh-so-dreamy super British accent.
Then, cut to EW handing Bamber a camera for a day, and with all the shit he could have taken pictures of on set, do you know what he mostly takes pictures of? Himself, one of the inside of the cockpit and yes, one memorable shot of Tahmoh Penikett stuffing his face in between takes. At least THAT tells me something about set.
As for the content redeeming the title, I’d say Rogers, I wish I could have said the same for your article, but really the headline was enough for me, thanks.