The three Star Wars prequels beat the Lord of the Rings trilogy this weekend, according to Nielsen Ratings.
Spike TV showed all three Star Wars prequels over the weekend in the same timeslot that TNT ran all three LOTR movies and the Star Wars films drew almost 1 million more viewers. Both networks suffered ratings drops Friday night, as Sci-Fi Channel's Battlestar Galactica's last season premiered.
Personally, I only saw Star Wars Episode III because a friend forced me to and I didn't pay it any mind even then. I never bothered with any of the rest. And despite others' best efforts, I have managed never to see any of the LOTR movies. I never made it through any of the books, either; like I have said time and again: if it takes you 20 damned pages to describe the door to the protagonist's hovel, I don't have high hopes for the rest of the book. I have tried reading The Hobbit three times in my life and put it down every time.
Never got into Battlestar Galactica either, and I tried - several times - even watched that special that summed-up the story and characters and all of that... just never could get into it. One of the reasons I can pinpoint is that Battlestar Galactica completely lacked humor - I have never once seen so much as a single moment of comic relief in all of the episodes I've ever watched - and those kinds of dramas just turn me off. They're flat and boring; with absolutely no comedic relief, there is no contrast and it loses any dramatic tension it might have because every big, dramatic development is the same as the rest. After a few minutes, it's just beating a dead horse.
© C Harris Lynn, 2008
A rambling melange of pop-culture.
2 comments:
I'm afraid I must disagree with you regarding the lack of comic relief on Battlestar Galactica. I don't know if you've seen enough of it to know this, but Baltar can see and hear his "dead" Cylon girlfriend, Six, but no one else can. There was one episode when he was working in his lab and she showed up and seduced him. He dropped his pants and bent her over a table. Then someone else walked into the room and, since they couldn't see Six, they completely misinterpreted what Baltar was doing; and hilarity ensued.
Heh, that is pretty funny - especially since it's something only a genre show could get away with.
Like I said, I was never a fan, so I only saw a handful of episodes throughout the years, but especially with this blog, it was suggested to me often enough that I gave it the old college-try a few times over and it just never "stuck." My taste runs more toward the Eureka end of the spectrum.
I'm just not a space opera kind of guy - not an "opera" kind of guy, period... which kind of sucks, because most of the "keystone" epics in sci-fi and fantasy tend to be just that.
Love cyberpunk, hated Neuromancer; love fantasy, hated Tolkien; love horror, hated Interview with the Vampire... of course, a lot of that has to do with the fact that I was an English major, and I can't just read a book without tearing it apart - there's no way to "take off my editor's hat" and just enjoy a work for what it is. Same with movies and comic books... once you've seen the man behind the curtain, it's hard to forget him.
But no matter - BG has legions of fans and I have a feeling we haven't seen the end of it. I do know that one of the female leads has already signed with ABC to do an as-yet-unnamed drama project, so it is not coming back in its current form anytime soon. I just didn't run that story because it was too short.
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