What’s Wrong With Battlestar
Timothy Sandefur on Aug 24th 2007
Ron Moore manages to encapsulate everything wrong with Battlestar Galactica in a single sentence about a different TV show. Praising the conclusion of The Sopranos, he says, “I’m glad [the writer] thumbed his nose at the tyranny of the narrative drive to bring things to a tidy conclusion so we can all clap and walk away.”
One who considers the imperatives of “the narrative drive” to be “tyranny” would be well advised to avoid a career as a writer, IMHO.
(Yes, I still consider myself a BSG fan, despite my serious qualms about the last season and my agreement with Bill Gordon’s criticisms of this self-consciously naturalistic show. The show is an outstanding specimen of naturalism, with brilliant acting and production values. But its rebellion against the “tyranny” of narrative technique has crippled its real potential.)
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