Oh wow.

[conuly]

Remember I said that I was watching Battlestar Glactica?

Color me impressed. In most if not all scifi "space" shows I've seen, people think like they're still on a planet. Ships always meet nose to nose, right side up. They always fly in flat horizontal lines, never up or down.

We first saw that this was different when people land on the "underside" of a ship, only to fall down into it when they actually break in. But this....

They had a dogfight in space, and they actually moved in space. Spinning, going up and down and diagonally and sideways, shooting from underneath, everything. It's so simple, but it makes a difference. Realism is my god. You have no idea, I watched this and my eyes literally went wide.

I think I'm going to need a new icon.

Comments

[ladytalon.livejournal.com]

That's why I loved Firefly. Space was actually cool, not just something spaceships go through on their way to other planets.

I haven't been watching Battlestar Galactica, but I feel like I ought to. The same way I feel about Stargate SG-1. I think I'd enjoy it if I started watching, but I hate leaping in at the middle.

[zathras26.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure whether you're in the U.S. or the U.K. If you're in the U.K., jumping in now might be a bit difficult, but here in the U.S., I don't think it would take you long to get up to speed at all... we've had only four eps so far, and at the beginning of each ep, they do give a brief synopsis of what has transpired so far.

[ladytalon.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I'm in the U.S., but have an abysmal sense of time, so I had no idea how long ago it started. =D

[conuly]

NYC.

And I've already read all the UK spoilers :)

[conuly]

Oops. Not talking to me. I always have that problem on the Recent Comments page.

[ex-chaos-by-699.livejournal.com]

I often have that problem in real life. :p

[conuly]

*hopes you're talking to her*

I agree.

[ex-chaos-by-699.livejournal.com]

Yes, I was.

Or rather I was typing to you. Whatever.

Sometimes I get irked by using speaking metaphors in typing-land. I'm funny that way.