Most recent comments for News is Next on typewriting.org http://typewriting.org/2005/12/01/News_is_Next/ Thu, 01 Dec 2005 18:00:08 -0800 typewriting.org http://typewriting.org/2005/12/01/News_is_Next/#comment-1629 <div>Ah, totally different Baby5 and Battlestar. It is frustrating, though, that so much was kept hanging at the end. <br /> <br /> PS Thanks for the headsup on the apostrophe thing.</div> Thu, 01 Dec 2005 18:00:08 -0800 http://typewriting.org/2005/12/01/News_is_Next/#comment-1629 http://typewriting.org/2005/12/01/News_is_Next/#comment-1633 <div>your comment on battlestar galactica reminds me of my father-in-law, who, during the summer, sat me in front of BG and explained the plot in luxuriant detail, pausing to expound on various subplots, alien races, technologies etc. <br /> <br /> i then watched the show and found it the usual sci-fi stuff and, to me, faintly preposterous. then i realised the missing link was the amount of depth my father-in-law is adding to the show. i think this is because he really catches a buzz from the Ideas, whereas i just see corny dialogue, bad acting, funny costumes, etc. to me, these detract from the experience sufficiently to prevent me enjoying Anything about the show.<br /> <br /> maybe it's because i'm a writer and am too sensitive to glitches in story, dialogue, and character, i just cannot step back from the individual and behold the broad sweep of these epics.</div> Sat, 03 Dec 2005 06:53:39 -0800 http://typewriting.org/2005/12/01/News_is_Next/#comment-1633 http://typewriting.org/2005/12/01/News_is_Next/#comment-1635 <div>I think you might be right about interesting concepts being more central to SciFi in general, but I think Battlestar Galactica has much else going for it. I found I was interested in the characters well before anything started happening in the plot to strain my suspesion of disbelief.</div> Sat, 03 Dec 2005 16:35:02 -0800 http://typewriting.org/2005/12/01/News_is_Next/#comment-1635