Whoa. Good Netflix.
Sep. 24th, 2005 02:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
trinityvixenThanks to my always excellent Heddy-friend, I have a free month of Netflix. I ought to have abused it and signed up for the 3-DVDs-at-a-time service (I still might, so long as it's free). I got my first disc, and I went out to return it at 1:30 am across the street to be sure it would make it out on the next pick up.
What did I rent? The miniseries for Battlestar Gallactica. And yes, it was that good.
Wow. Just, wow. Great from start to finish, not bored at all, which is saying something because, even though I liked it, the season premiere of LOST still managed to bore me at parts (::sings:: my boredom has a first name, it's S-H-A-N-N-O-N). I am intrigued and enthralled by so many disparate things, so I've gone with lists to solve my problem.
1) The call sign "Starbuck." Don't really love the character, don't really hate her, but I love her name. My older sister was telling me about this series and she mentioned the name, and it clicked. Seeing Starbuck in action helped, and I really love it now.
2) The rather alluring angst surrounding Apollo. I think the actor's decently cute, I like the character well enough, and I even forgave his cliche snit-fits with daddums because he was believable and even admirable in his restraint. He has the chance to berate Starbuck for her part in his brother's death but chooses not to, having learned from his mistakes in doing just that to his father.
3) Commander Adama's figuring out that the guy on the space station was a Cylon. Proof positive that Earth was settled by the idiot off-shoots of society, just as Douglas Adams deduced long ago. Kobol kept all the smart ones to itself.
4) Dr. Baltar's schizoid imagination of Number 6. I will dearly love seeing where they go with that when I watch the first season.
5) The guy left behind on the station actually is a Cylon. Loved it. For a while, I was worried about Billy. He was a little too friendly with the ladies at the end after starting the series abashed because he walked in on fully under-clothed people of both sexes brushing their frakin' teeth.
6) On the heels of #5: new fake curses! I said frelling under my breath about my boss today. Good to know I still have it.
7) Oh no! Not Boomer! I liked Tyrol so much. He was a voice of dissent and honor that the X.O. wasn't when it came to prizing the lives of his men (even if Tigh made the right tactical decision to save more lives), and he lacked the President's brassy bossiness to get his way, and I just ached for him. I'm really sad that Boomer's a sleeper, if indeed that's what she is (DON'T TELL ME!). She was really decent, too.
8) They're going to Earth. I love it. The cross-over potential! Speaking of, and only![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
deepredbelle will really get this, the miniseries has given me an interesting idea of what to do for my two-lines challenge entry. I could base it on Number 6, if I could stand to write about the robo-slut.
9) There isn't a single move that's really tactically deficient. The Gallactica crew makes all the right moves, even when those moves are horrible, awful, immoral, and made me sick. The people who were left behind on the ships particularly unsettled me--that last shout of a woman being left, saying, "May you all rot in hell for what you're doing!" Gaaaah!!! ::shudders:: And Tigh...I wanted to hit him, deck him hard like Starbuck (I'm glad they didn't kiss and make nice at the end), but he was right to vent the air in the ship to get rid of the fire (worked on Firefly, right? Uh, well, sorta?). Boomer and Helo pulling that lottery on Caprica...ouch. None of their decisions to cut their losses and save what they could were wrong--they all saved more lives than they would have trying to save more in volume, but still....yikes.
10) Better start making babies. ::dies:: I think Captain Bright-Eyes ought to get started on that right away. I guess he can knock up Starbuck, since they've got the tension going, but she's going to punch his lights out when he does. And Dualla and Billy will, in the immortal words of Cleveland from Family Guy, make a cute caramel-colored baby together.
The Corpse Bride was so much fine. I forgot how much I really do enjoy the stop-motion animation in film. I don't think it measures up to Nightmare Before Christmas, though. The premise of Nightmare allowed for the herky-jerky animation style to work for it, whereas with Bride there were plenty of times in action scenes where the animation gaps were jarring. I liked the story well enough, though I think it was predictable almost from the beginning, another reason why I preference Nightmare to Bride. I liked the undead bride better than the living one, but enjoyed the latter's spunk.
The laughs, generated by both sight-gag and thwarted expectations, were enough to keep me from dwelling (much) on the darker tone of Bride. Taken at face value, the premise is horriffic, and frankly, I wouldn't take kids under say 10 to see it if not for the injected moments of levity and the effort not to show the more gruesome stages of physical disintegration after death. Indeed, when deaths do occur in the film, they aren't given focus, sometimes played for humor to mediate their impact. Nevertheless, there is a genuine creep along the spine generated by the words "New arrival" at a key moment. Fun, short but feeling slightly too long for what its story does end up being, The Corpse Bride was a good trip out, and glad we got to do it with so many people.
And then there was the Goblet of Fire trailer, the new one I hadn't seen. Michelle and Carrie squealed at separate moments over Daniel Radcliffe, but I was too busy trying to absorb it all to pay them much notice beyond a grin. I didn't see Sirius, though. He is in it, isn't he?
What did I rent? The miniseries for Battlestar Gallactica. And yes, it was that good.
Wow. Just, wow. Great from start to finish, not bored at all, which is saying something because, even though I liked it, the season premiere of LOST still managed to bore me at parts (::sings:: my boredom has a first name, it's S-H-A-N-N-O-N). I am intrigued and enthralled by so many disparate things, so I've gone with lists to solve my problem.
1) The call sign "Starbuck." Don't really love the character, don't really hate her, but I love her name. My older sister was telling me about this series and she mentioned the name, and it clicked. Seeing Starbuck in action helped, and I really love it now.
2) The rather alluring angst surrounding Apollo. I think the actor's decently cute, I like the character well enough, and I even forgave his cliche snit-fits with daddums because he was believable and even admirable in his restraint. He has the chance to berate Starbuck for her part in his brother's death but chooses not to, having learned from his mistakes in doing just that to his father.
3) Commander Adama's figuring out that the guy on the space station was a Cylon. Proof positive that Earth was settled by the idiot off-shoots of society, just as Douglas Adams deduced long ago. Kobol kept all the smart ones to itself.
4) Dr. Baltar's schizoid imagination of Number 6. I will dearly love seeing where they go with that when I watch the first season.
5) The guy left behind on the station actually is a Cylon. Loved it. For a while, I was worried about Billy. He was a little too friendly with the ladies at the end after starting the series abashed because he walked in on fully under-clothed people of both sexes brushing their frakin' teeth.
6) On the heels of #5: new fake curses! I said frelling under my breath about my boss today. Good to know I still have it.
7) Oh no! Not Boomer! I liked Tyrol so much. He was a voice of dissent and honor that the X.O. wasn't when it came to prizing the lives of his men (even if Tigh made the right tactical decision to save more lives), and he lacked the President's brassy bossiness to get his way, and I just ached for him. I'm really sad that Boomer's a sleeper, if indeed that's what she is (DON'T TELL ME!). She was really decent, too.
8) They're going to Earth. I love it. The cross-over potential! Speaking of, and only
deepredbelle will really get this, the miniseries has given me an interesting idea of what to do for my two-lines challenge entry. I could base it on Number 6, if I could stand to write about the robo-slut.9) There isn't a single move that's really tactically deficient. The Gallactica crew makes all the right moves, even when those moves are horrible, awful, immoral, and made me sick. The people who were left behind on the ships particularly unsettled me--that last shout of a woman being left, saying, "May you all rot in hell for what you're doing!" Gaaaah!!! ::shudders:: And Tigh...I wanted to hit him, deck him hard like Starbuck (I'm glad they didn't kiss and make nice at the end), but he was right to vent the air in the ship to get rid of the fire (worked on Firefly, right? Uh, well, sorta?). Boomer and Helo pulling that lottery on Caprica...ouch. None of their decisions to cut their losses and save what they could were wrong--they all saved more lives than they would have trying to save more in volume, but still....yikes.
10) Better start making babies. ::dies:: I think Captain Bright-Eyes ought to get started on that right away. I guess he can knock up Starbuck, since they've got the tension going, but she's going to punch his lights out when he does. And Dualla and Billy will, in the immortal words of Cleveland from Family Guy, make a cute caramel-colored baby together.
The Corpse Bride was so much fine. I forgot how much I really do enjoy the stop-motion animation in film. I don't think it measures up to Nightmare Before Christmas, though. The premise of Nightmare allowed for the herky-jerky animation style to work for it, whereas with Bride there were plenty of times in action scenes where the animation gaps were jarring. I liked the story well enough, though I think it was predictable almost from the beginning, another reason why I preference Nightmare to Bride. I liked the undead bride better than the living one, but enjoyed the latter's spunk.
The laughs, generated by both sight-gag and thwarted expectations, were enough to keep me from dwelling (much) on the darker tone of Bride. Taken at face value, the premise is horriffic, and frankly, I wouldn't take kids under say 10 to see it if not for the injected moments of levity and the effort not to show the more gruesome stages of physical disintegration after death. Indeed, when deaths do occur in the film, they aren't given focus, sometimes played for humor to mediate their impact. Nevertheless, there is a genuine creep along the spine generated by the words "New arrival" at a key moment. Fun, short but feeling slightly too long for what its story does end up being, The Corpse Bride was a good trip out, and glad we got to do it with so many people.
And then there was the Goblet of Fire trailer, the new one I hadn't seen. Michelle and Carrie squealed at separate moments over Daniel Radcliffe, but I was too busy trying to absorb it all to pay them much notice beyond a grin. I didn't see Sirius, though. He is in it, isn't he?
