The past week wasn't as packed with events and shows as the previous one, but luckily for us, that didn't mean there wasn't enough to report on. This week focussed on netbooks, Steve Jobs' health, and KDE/Qt. This week's My Take is a shameless plug for one of the best television shows we've seen in a while.
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I didn't like B5. It was far too much like Trek for me, especially because it makes the same mistake that Trek made: all aliens are humans with different skin ridges on their foreheads. It's just very hard to take seriously. To make matters worse, I really disliked the visual style of B5.
Then again, I didn't make it through the 1st season because of that. Maybe it does getter, as you say.
Member since:2005-08-28
There's also something of an antecedent in Blakes Seven, a late-70s BBC show written mostly by Terry Nation.
It has more than its share of faults, like an incredibly tiny budget, poor sets and special effects, and over-the-top hammy acting... but it was surprisingly intelligently written. I mean that in the sense that you'll watch a TV show and wish the characters would notice or do the blindly obvious; on Blakes Seven they regularly would.
It looked like Doctor Who and put the characters into the same sorts of situations as Star Trek, but it was darker and things were never as simple or easy. They also didn't have a problem killing off main characters.
It's nowhere near as separated from Star Trek as Battlestar Galactica or Babylon 5 was, but it was a step toward a more imperfect future.
Edited 2009-01-18 22:24 UTC
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2008-03-17
Alas, Bablyon 5 still had far too many," let's help the alien of the week" stories with prerequisite happy ending ...they bored me.
BSG is far more raw than the usual scifi series (on tv anyways).
Edited 2009-01-18 16:22 UTC