Sci-fi Dramas
Feeling good now because, on the 11th episode of Season 3, Battlestar Galactica is back to its best. Dramas like Battlestar and Lost are stellar when they touch on interpersonal conflicts, moral issues, adulterated philosophical debates and have large doses of good acting and plot ambiguity. Some level of Space Odysseyque surrealism wouldn't harm too.
I remember there was a part in Lost where the stranded people on the island were informed they had to press a button every 108 minutes or so. The reason why is not known to them. It was nice watching how different people had different views about it, views that were informed by and consistent with their past and character. It was nice too seeing how the different characters negotiated in different ways with their new reality as castaways. Dramas shine this way, not when characters combat apparitions that were the offshoot of experiments gone wrong.
I remember there was a part in Lost where the stranded people on the island were informed they had to press a button every 108 minutes or so. The reason why is not known to them. It was nice watching how different people had different views about it, views that were informed by and consistent with their past and character. It was nice too seeing how the different characters negotiated in different ways with their new reality as castaways. Dramas shine this way, not when characters combat apparitions that were the offshoot of experiments gone wrong.
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