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Jan. 10th, 2011 06:32 pmFor anyone interested in a lengthy critical review of Caprica - go here:
http://wrongquestions.blogspot.com/2011/01/five-comments-on-caprica.html
It's entitled "Asking the Wrong Questions" - and is by an Israeli blogger who is a computer programmer working in Tel Aviv, and an editor of the Sci-Fi Onzine Strange Horizons. (One of the best things about the net is this ability to share information, views, and outlooks with people around the world, from other cultures, and traditions. Someone from Germany and Israel will most likely view a tv show created in the US differently than an American would, and vice versa. Yet, what is interesting, at least to me, is the extent to which we agree. Demonstrating, I think, that the differences between us, culturally and otherwise...may be a lot less than we think. In other words, we have more in common than we know. What's aggravating to me - is the people I share the most in common with taste, interest, politically, and culturally - appear to be a world away. You'd think living in NYC with 8 million people - it would be easier to find those with a commonality of interest. Eh. Perhaps, I'm not looking hard enough?)
While I don't completely agree with her - she raises some good points. (She views BSG as failing in the whole world-building department, I'm not sure that is true, but then...I'm admittedly not as obsessed with the whole detailed world-building thing as most sci-fi and fantasy fans are. They are thematic centric, and I'm character centric. I actually find it sort of silly, and often takes away from the characters. Too many sci-fantasy writers spend far too much time on their world and 0 time creating interesting characters. I'm looking at you Frank Herbert, Neil Gaiman and Tim Burton.) Outside of that? I more or less agree. Caprica does have a literary sensibility that is missing from BSG - which may be why it did not take off. (shrugs). It also does do the right and wrong things regarding the religion theme - it brings up some interesting ideas, but by failing to address the motivations of characters like Clarice Willow and Barnabas and Zoe...it makes the religion bit, a bit too simplified and too generalized. The watcher can't help but come to the conclusion that the writers think people who believe in God want to kill everyone. (Whedon in the Buffy comics and Dollhouse had more or less the same problems...he spent too much time on what and not enough on why. Or something like that.)
Eh. Ignore me and go read her essay on it.
In other news? There's apparently a Facebook campaign to boycott the Buffy Reboot sans Whedon?
People? If you need something to do, something positive - join the Brady Campaign against Guns.
http://www.bradycampaign.org/xshare/pdf/facts/Brady_GodBlessAmerica.pdf
www.bradycampaign.org
Far more productive in my opinion. (And yes, this most likely only applies to the Americans on my flist, the rest of the world is smart enough not to allow people to buy a gun as easily as it is to get a driver's license. Actually it's easier, believe it or not. Apparently your right to own a gun is more important than the right to vote, drink, drive, or get married in the US. Scarey but true.)
The best way to ensure the Buffy movie doesn't get made? Is to ignore the Buffy movie. Only Whedon fans care anyway. Buffy fans are either ambivalent (like me) or sort of interested and want it. (People forget there are two fandoms - whedon fandom and Buffy fandom, they aren't necessarily the same. Sort of like all other fandoms for that matter. Gene Roddenberry vs. Star Trek. Moffat and RTD vs. Doctor Who. Ron Moore vs. BSG fandom...George Lucas vs. Star Wars...etc. )
http://wrongquestions.blogspot.com/2011/01/five-comments-on-caprica.html
It's entitled "Asking the Wrong Questions" - and is by an Israeli blogger who is a computer programmer working in Tel Aviv, and an editor of the Sci-Fi Onzine Strange Horizons. (One of the best things about the net is this ability to share information, views, and outlooks with people around the world, from other cultures, and traditions. Someone from Germany and Israel will most likely view a tv show created in the US differently than an American would, and vice versa. Yet, what is interesting, at least to me, is the extent to which we agree. Demonstrating, I think, that the differences between us, culturally and otherwise...may be a lot less than we think. In other words, we have more in common than we know. What's aggravating to me - is the people I share the most in common with taste, interest, politically, and culturally - appear to be a world away. You'd think living in NYC with 8 million people - it would be easier to find those with a commonality of interest. Eh. Perhaps, I'm not looking hard enough?)
While I don't completely agree with her - she raises some good points. (She views BSG as failing in the whole world-building department, I'm not sure that is true, but then...I'm admittedly not as obsessed with the whole detailed world-building thing as most sci-fi and fantasy fans are. They are thematic centric, and I'm character centric. I actually find it sort of silly, and often takes away from the characters. Too many sci-fantasy writers spend far too much time on their world and 0 time creating interesting characters. I'm looking at you Frank Herbert, Neil Gaiman and Tim Burton.) Outside of that? I more or less agree. Caprica does have a literary sensibility that is missing from BSG - which may be why it did not take off. (shrugs). It also does do the right and wrong things regarding the religion theme - it brings up some interesting ideas, but by failing to address the motivations of characters like Clarice Willow and Barnabas and Zoe...it makes the religion bit, a bit too simplified and too generalized. The watcher can't help but come to the conclusion that the writers think people who believe in God want to kill everyone. (Whedon in the Buffy comics and Dollhouse had more or less the same problems...he spent too much time on what and not enough on why. Or something like that.)
Eh. Ignore me and go read her essay on it.
In other news? There's apparently a Facebook campaign to boycott the Buffy Reboot sans Whedon?
People? If you need something to do, something positive - join the Brady Campaign against Guns.
http://www.bradycampaign.org/xshare/pdf/facts/Brady_GodBlessAmerica.pdf
www.bradycampaign.org
Far more productive in my opinion. (And yes, this most likely only applies to the Americans on my flist, the rest of the world is smart enough not to allow people to buy a gun as easily as it is to get a driver's license. Actually it's easier, believe it or not. Apparently your right to own a gun is more important than the right to vote, drink, drive, or get married in the US. Scarey but true.)
The best way to ensure the Buffy movie doesn't get made? Is to ignore the Buffy movie. Only Whedon fans care anyway. Buffy fans are either ambivalent (like me) or sort of interested and want it. (People forget there are two fandoms - whedon fandom and Buffy fandom, they aren't necessarily the same. Sort of like all other fandoms for that matter. Gene Roddenberry vs. Star Trek. Moffat and RTD vs. Doctor Who. Ron Moore vs. BSG fandom...George Lucas vs. Star Wars...etc. )