Sunday, June 04, 2023
Finding Battlestar Galactica
I recently binged the 2003 version of Battlestar Galactica. I had seen the miniseries back in the day, but didn't catch the series because I wasn't about to pay for cable TV. (I'm still not, though I do spring for a streaming service from time to time.) Anyway, I was enthralled with it and immediately wanted to get info about the series. Being a child of the 20th century, I went looking for a book and found this one.
Finding Battlestar Galactica is a collection of essays about the two Galactica series. It's interesting, but in the end, I can only rate it as waiting room material. It's biggest flaw is that it was written between the third and fourth seasons of the second series. I'm sure back in the day I would have been excited for the exploration of the show and the speculation for the final season. But reading it after having seen that season drains the excitement from the text. I don't even have any nostalgia to indulge in as I would if I were reading an old Star Trek or Doctor Who fanzines. It's a well-written, well-compiled tome--it just hasn't aged well.
Labels: WaitingRoomMaterial
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