Blackmoor Vituperative

I have watched three or four episodes of the new Battlestar Galactica. Although I enjoyed the pilot/miniseries, I find the actual series to be pretty dreary. The cylons we usually see are just run-of-the-mill human religious fanatics (which is both boring and annoying), there’s very little of what I would call science fiction in it, and the real cylons (the ones who LOOK LIKE CYLONS) and cylon raiders rarely occupy the screen for more than a few seconds in each episode. That is true of the episodes I have seen, anyway.

Aside from that, the whole show is dreary. There’s no sense of fun, no sense of adventure, no sense of hope. All of the episodes I have seen have been an hour of dreary grey people leading dreary grey lives, miserable and with no hope of ever not being miserable. I would rather watch a reality show about Russian peasants. At least they dance once in a while.