June 13, 2008
BSG Bleg
I may or may not do a long and tedious blog post about my new TV acquisition and caching system. Short version: condo points wrong way for DishNetwork; bought low-end Comcast service and TiVo; bleeding edge new TiVo has severe problems, went three weeks without anything working; got replacement TiVo and life is great.
You'll have to read the untold misery between the lines, but now that it works I am pretty impressed. I can shop on Amazon Unboxed and buy content to be delivered straight to the TiVo. I can watch Onion and TPM videos, search the Internet for Photos -- it really does "converge" the Internet and TV.
What to buy? I will snag the HBO John Adams series, and probably shift my rentals from Redbox. Then I was thinking of checking out Battlestar Galactica. A lot of Buffy folk ended up watching it. And, like Buffy, a lot of people I respect watch or reference it.
So. Any ThreeSourcers watch BSG? Where would you advise somebody start? They offer the mini-series that is supposed to set up the new series. Or I could dive in at Season 1, episode 1. Or just start with the newest season. Or fuggetaboutthewholething. Recommendations?
Early BSG rocked! Watch the miniseries first. I got hooked fast. Later episodes only sometimes rocked and some have been downright bad, but it's almost over and well worth it.
(A lot of Buffy fans have liked Heros too. I haven't tried that one.)
Posted by: Terri at June 13, 2008 11:23 AMThere've been three seasons if memory serves. Watch the first, and the current ones. Skip season 2 - it was filler.
Oh, and dagny would add that season 1 angered her because so many characters so often made such bad choices. She thought it was a weak way to build a plot. The plot is much better this season, IMO.
Posted by: johngalt at June 13, 2008 2:56 PM | What do you think? [2]