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Author:  paulzolo [ Fri Jul 23, 2010 12:01 pm ]
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The grossly expensive BluRay boxed set - which I have seen skirting around the £200 mark - is now available at a more sensible price.

http://www.play.com/DVD/Blu-ray/4-/9732 ... oduct.html

The box is cardboard instead of tin, but this is a reasonable price now. I promised myself this in BluRay when it was a more sensible price, so I put an order in today. :D
Author:  Spreadie [ Fri Jul 23, 2010 12:21 pm ]
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Very nice, it certainly seems like a decent price for a bluray boxset, and I love the BSG series.

The fact that I don't have bluray and also recorded the entire series (the AverTV DVB-T USB box is a wonderful toy) means I wont be parting with my cash.

Maybe one day I'll buy into bluray...
Author:  Paul1965 [ Fri Jul 23, 2010 1:02 pm ]
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So the BSG series is worth a look? I have been considering taking the plunge. I'm not going to be spending out on BluRay though.
Author:  paulzolo [ Fri Jul 23, 2010 4:11 pm ]
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It’s seriously worth a look. It has creative roots in Star Trek as well - with Ronald D Moore (a Star Trek:TNG onwards alumni) rebooting. BSG does what Star Trek doesn’t do - it shows the conflict between military and civilians, it shows the ambiguity of war, the corruption of politics and has some seriously stunning space battles which look like they have been filmed by embedded journalists.

Ronald D Moore has an interesting take on Star Trek: Voyager which he left quickly after joining the team at season 6:

Quote:
The premise has a lot of possibilities. Before it aired, I was at a convention in Pasadena, and Sternbach and Okuda were on stage, and they were answering questions from the audience about the new ship. It was all very technical, and they were talking about the fact that in the premise this ship was going to have problems. It wasn’t going to have unlimited sources of energy. It wasn’t going to have all the doodads of the Enterprise. It was going to be rougher, fending for themselves more, having to trade to get supplies that they want. That didn’t happen. It doesn’t happen at all, and it’s a lie to the audience. I think the audience intuitively knows when something is true and something is not true. Voyager is not true. If it were true, the ship would not look spic-and-span every week, after all these battles it goes through. How many times has the bridge been destroyed? How many shuttlecrafts have vanished, and another one just comes out of the oven? That kind of [LIFTED] the audience I think takes its toll. At some point the audience stops taking it seriously, because they know that this is not really the way this would happen. These people wouldn’t act like this.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_D._ ... .932009.29

By contrast, BSG has battered ships. When they lose a ship, its gone. Repairs can take episodes to complete. It’s grubby, dirty and oily.

I missed the last series due to the Virgin/Sky spat. By then I had already decided that I’d get it on DVD when it came out,. but seeing that there was BluRay on offer, I decided on that. It‘s just that the prices were too high.
Author:  belchingmatt [ Fri Jul 23, 2010 4:56 pm ]
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Tempting but I'm sure it will be down at 40GBP for xmas.
Author:  timark_uk [ Fri Jul 23, 2010 5:06 pm ]
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paulzolo wrote:
By contrast, BSG has battered ships. When they lose a ship, its gone. Repairs can take episodes to complete. It’s grubby, dirty and oily.
Towards the end of the third season and throughout the fourth it became quite common that myself and Geekette referred to the show as Battlescar Galactica, specifically for the reasons quoted above.

Mark
Author:  belchingmatt [ Fri Jul 23, 2010 5:09 pm ]
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BSG wasn't really battle ready to start with, and at the end of the fourth when the structure was flexing, well you know that old girl has been around the block a few times.
Author:  timark_uk [ Fri Jul 23, 2010 5:10 pm ]
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belchingmatt wrote:
BSG wasn't really battle ready to start with
No, it was a museum piece.

Mark
Author:  paulzolo [ Fri Jul 23, 2010 6:26 pm ]
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timark_uk wrote:
belchingmatt wrote:
BSG wasn't really battle ready to start with
No, it was a museum piece.

Mark


It was being decomissioned at the start - it had wonderful touches like phones on curly cords for internship communications. It looked like something military from the 1960s. I liked this retro feel to it.

Caprica does similar things - they populate the streets with older cars made to look new, costumes from another era (hints of 1940s). I've seen a few modern cars there too - but only those with retro styling.

The new BSG universe has a wonderful aesthetic. It feels real and used.
Author:  ProfessorF [ Fri Jul 23, 2010 6:35 pm ]
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Paul1965 wrote:
So the BSG series is worth a look?


I'd go as far as to say it's perhaps my favourite television series of the last ten years. (Firefly's probably the other one.)
No, really.
I've introduced 4 people to it, and they've all said thank you.
I was sceptical when it was airing on Sky the first time round, and only watched it last year and it's just brilliant.
Author:  belchingmatt [ Fri Jul 23, 2010 6:39 pm ]
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BSG is very good, and I love the way that it has a decent ending.
Author:  Spreadie [ Sat Jul 24, 2010 10:50 pm ]
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Paul, I assume the boxset includes Razor and The Plan?

belchingmatt wrote:
BSG is very good, and I love the way that it has a decent ending.

One of the few that do. Some get cut short (Firefly), whilst others either fizzle out or just stop; Star Trek, I'm looking at you.
Author:  okenobi [ Sun Jul 25, 2010 6:10 am ]
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Definitely one of the best TV shows ever. For human drama, it even rivals the Wire and that's a statement.
Author:  paulzolo [ Tue Sep 21, 2010 8:45 am ]
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Well, finally got an email from Play.com to tell me that the set has been dispatched. I was going to cancel the order this week and find it elsewhere, but no need now. This and the X Files on Channel One is WIN until Christmas telly kicks in!
Author:  leeds_manc [ Tue Sep 21, 2010 10:56 am ]
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okenobi wrote:
For human drama, it even rivals The Wire


Nothing rivals The Wire, nothing comes close, except possibly real life.
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