{"id":126,"date":"2005-02-26T01:27:08","date_gmt":"2005-02-26T01:27:08","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-02-26T01:27:08","modified_gmt":"2005-02-26T01:27:08","slug":"excellent-television","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2005\/02\/26\/excellent-television\/","title":{"rendered":"Excellent Television"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m sure that I am preaching to the choir, but the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifi.com\/\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.scifi.com\/', 'SciFi Channel\u2019s');\">SciFi Channel\u2019s<\/a> Friday night lineup is a solid three hours of pretty good storytelling.  They were smart enough not to include the dreadful Andromeda and decided to showcase the network\u2019s crown jewels.  Thanks to Tivo, I started watching Stargate SG-1 last year and I feel as though I am pretty caught up since around a third of the SciFi Channel\u2019s programming are SG-1 repeats.  How this show has managed to remain somewhat fresh all of these years is a mystery that many other prgrams need to solve.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m slowly warming up to Stargate Atlantis.  I see the previews for the shows and they never really seem to interest me.  But I\u2019ll watch it anyhow, and I am usually happy that I did.<\/p>\n<p>But the show of shows is Battlestar Galactica.  It is my favorite show on television.  Better than 24 and much better than Alias (another one of my favorites).  If you haven\u2019t seen this series from the beginning, you\u2019re really missing some quality writing .  The acting can be over the top at times, but the way they portray a civilization\u2019s last stand makes up for anything else wrong in the show.<\/p>\n<p>My brother, also an elder gamer, complained loudly that Battlestar Galactica \u201csucked\u201d because there were no cylons.  Well, he meant the old fashioned cylons of yester-TV.<\/p>\n<p>I like the complexity presented with the new cylon human copies.  Especially the discussion that God was displeased with the human race, so He created the cylons.  Will be interesting to see where this winds up later in the series.<\/p>\n<p>So if you don\u2019t like sitting in front of your TV contemplating such philosophical thoughts, then Battlestar Galactica probably isn\u2019t going to float your boat.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m sure that I am preaching to the choir, but the SciFi Channel\u2019s Friday night lineup is a solid three hours of pretty good storytelling. They were smart enough not to include the dreadful Andromeda and decided to showcase the network\u2019s crown jewels. Thanks to Tivo, I started watching Stargate SG-1 last year and I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2005\/02\/26\/excellent-television\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Excellent Television<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}