You mentioned upthread that you felt the show is too heavy to be bingeable. Can you explain your criteria for bingeability? I’m not arguing with you, I’m just curious. I’ve been watching an episode most evenings over the past week or so, and in a few cases two episodes back-to-back, which for me qualifies as binging. (I currently have two episodes to go, so no spoilers please ).
When I’m as invested in a show as I am in Babylon, I keep coming back to it rather than watching shows that interest me less, and with all the subplots, it helps to keep everything straight if I don’t leave long gaps between viewings. I’m actually less likely to binge on light half-hour comedies, which would be like eating a whole box of chocolates at once.
I will say that Netflix’s The Keepers, about child abuse and murder by priests, was one show I had to steel myself to watch, and one that I can’t imagine binging, but I think the main difference is that it is a true story.
I apologize. Ran into that abbreviation in some chemistry class somewhere.
Well we are about done with the first season of the new Battlestar Gallactica. It is not grabbing me. The plots are too singleminded – colonists vs. Cylons, episode after episode. I like some of the characters, especially Starbuck, Commander Adama, and President Roslin. However, I dislike Dr. Balter and Number 6 intensely, and he’s the only science-type on the show. His fumbling around with the “Cylon detector” just irritates me – it successfully finds a Cylon but then he lies about it; but later we’re led to believe the machine really doesn’t work. I can’t tell if he’s got a chip in his head making Number 6 appear, or if he’s just insane. Then he gets all spiritual with finding God or something. Finally, the plot thread with Sharon on Caprica really just seems to just go on and on, Sharon and what’s-his-name running from the Cylons, episode after episode, getting nowhere, IMO.
Also, too grim. So I doubt we’ll continue with it.
I have. The Beeb seems pretty good at detecting those. I was pleased with what I found on YouTube – only S1E1 had that weird jerky effect, and I’ve now watched to the end of Season 2.
That, and just the original premise of the original film and show, made back when “we are descended from aliens” wasn’t as fringe as it is now. Remember the fighter pilots’ pharaoh-inspired helmets and that the twelve colonies were named for the Greek astrological symbols.
Yeah, I did ask if we could be careful about spoilers, but also it’s been a long time and there’s probably no Reasonable Expectation of Spoiler Privacy after this long.
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