| Best sci-fi tv show ever, better space battles than star wars, best show on tv. Thx. |
Um, the show is a great show, no question, but if there's one thing it doesn't do well, it's space battles.
Outside of the "shakey-cam" nonsense that's been going around TV and movies like the Black Death of Cinematography (please stop this!!!!), BSG's space battles tend to be rather dull. The fighter battles are sometimes intersting, but the large-scale capital ship battles are pretty dull. The direction never really gives a sense of tactics, and since you only really have one or two BattleStars vs. 1-4 BaseStars, there isn't much possibility for tactics. You just have two sides shooting at each other. But the direction doesn't even effectively work with what's there.
And, for all the reasonability of projectile and missile weaponry in space, it just isn't as fun to see on the screen as a nice Shadow-style cutting beam rending a ship stem-to-stern. The openning space battle of Episode III was more entertaining than any space encounter in BSG.
In terms of space battles, Babylon 5 pretty much owns all. Followed by Deep Space 9.
