thread: 2006-01-13 : Some remarks, mostly re: media
On 2006-01-13, MikeC wrote:
I'd love to watch VM, but to my immense annoyance it's doesn't show any signs of appearing on Region 2 DVD. I suppose they think nobody over here has heard of it, and I suppose they'd be right, but if they'd just put some promo material out featuring Joss Whedon's "BEST SHOW EVER!!!" quote they'd do pretty good business with us EuroWhedonites and get the word-of-mouth rolling.
BSG (season 1) was eminently watchable, and I bought the DVD, but I don't think I'd describe it as "awesome". My main reservations:
a) Not enough variation in tone or colour - it feels kind of dark grey, everywhere, all the time. Maybe an artifact of watching several eps at a time on DVD rather than spaced out on TV.
b) Fear of Twin Peaks Syndrome - lots of weird stuff happening and no great confidence that the writers will ever tie it together into a convincing "Aha, so THAT's what it's all about" moment.
c) I could never quite get over my "but... but that's just STUPID!" reaction to the "there are only N models of Cylon" thing.
