{"id":1705,"date":"2004-01-22T09:52:49","date_gmt":"2004-01-22T17:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2004\/01\/22\/1705.html"},"modified":"2004-01-22T09:52:49","modified_gmt":"2004-01-22T17:52:49","slug":"tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2004\/01\/22\/tv\/","title":{"rendered":"TV"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Kam and I recently watched the new <cite>Battlestar Galactica<\/cite> miniseries (thanks to David H).  I was pretty dubious about it from the start, but it quickly won me over; we both ended up enjoying it quite a bit.  I was never a fan of the original series (I think I saw half an episode once, so I knew just enough to recognize the oddly-shaped playing cards), but Kam was, and she liked this new version too.<\/p>\n<p>I don't know that I'd go so far as to say that it reinvents science fiction TV; I don't think it does much newer or better in terms of characterization and mature handling than, say, <cite>B5,<\/cite> or what I've heard of later seasons of <cite>DS9<\/cite> (which I gave up on around season 2; someone recently remarked that I should tell them when I'm giving up on a series, because that tends to be about the time it starts getting good).  But it's way better than a lot of sf TV, and it made me look forward to more.  And in fact, a rumor says that the Sci Fi Channel has now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cinescape.com\/0\/editorial.asp?aff_id=0&this_cat=Movies&action=page&type_id=&cat_id=270338&obj_id=40649\">ordered six more hour-long episodes<\/a>; I hope it can continue as strong as the miniseries.<\/p>\n<p>See also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strangehorizons.com\/2003\/20031222\/galactica.shtml\">John Sullivan's review<\/a> at <cite>SH,<\/cite> which provided an insight I hadn't thought of regarding a key moment early in the miniseries.<\/p>\n<p>In other TV news, Kam and I rented and watched another three episodes of <cite>Six Feet Under.<\/cite> It continues (at least through the sixth episode of season 1) to be quirky and odd and fascinating and sometimes funny and sometimes even moving.  I think what I like best about it is the depth it allows its characters: they have good sides and bad sides, they make mistakes but they also do things right, they're flawed but sympathetic.  They keep surprising me: there are unexpected strengths and hidden weaknesses.  I don't know how long the show can keep that up, but I like it so far.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kam and I recently watched the new Battlestar Galactica miniseries (thanks to David H). I was pretty dubious about it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}