I spent this past weekend ...
Question: I spent this past weekend watching the first half of
Battlestar Galactica's first season, so I can have the entire run of the series under my belt by the time Season 3 premieres in October. It should be no surprise to you (or to anyone with a modicum of taste) that I'm completely captivated.
BSG addresses so many topics, including the very nature of humanity, on levels deeper than any show I can think of, including
Lost. I'm sure you've addressed this before, but why is the TV Academy so reluctant to nominate it for anything except technical awards? The story line is no more complicated than the continuing story lines on
Lost or
Desperate Housewives or
Grey's Anatomy. Are the oldsters really that terrified of spaceships?
Answer: Not so much terrified as contemptuous. I've met TV-industry veterans who, even when told this was one of the best shows of the year, refuse to look at it. They simply can't get past the title and its embarrassingly cheesy predecessor. You'd think people on the creative side of things might have heard of the allegorical power that the best fantasy and science-fiction writing can convey. But they hear
Battlestar Galactica, and they think "hokum" — or worse, "recent
George Lucas." We'll just have to keep doing our best to educate these fools.
