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Anonymous Wrote:
These days I seem to be watching nothing but cable TV series
on DVD. Fortunately those will run out soon, and I can get back
to where the real action is.

I have been looking for some socially redeeming excuse for _Weeds_.
I'm not exactly sure it has one while its vices are legend (rampant
cynicism, glamorization of black and Latino gangsters just to name
a few of the less obvious ones). And I wouldn't have watched it if
it weren't for Mary Louise Parker. But is it hilarious or what.
Kevin
Neelon is a riot. I suppose you can say the multicultural rapport is
a plus, and it certainly breaks a ton of taboos. Whatever. The dialog
at U-Turn's funeral, perhaps the single funniest moment in the whole
show, crystalizes both its strength and weakness:

2-Strike: We popped our car-jacking cherry together.
Nancy: He taught me how to drive by.
2-Strike: Respect.
[they bang their fists together, gangsta style]
It is much funnier on screen of course. I will never forget that.

_The Closer_ is almost the opposite, strangely quaint and retro.
The first time I saw it, I thought it was either set 30 years ago or
in the deep South. Anchored by a great Kara Sedgwick
performance that is loud, larger than life, and every bit the opposite
of Parker's. The supporting cast, especially the sarcastic old guy
ever in danger of being "retired," is wonderful. Not a good-looking
one in the squad except one. The almost plantation era relationship
between Sedgewick's deputy chief and her favorite sergent, an ultra
polite
and handsome law-degree holding African American sergent, seems
as misguided as any of the vices in _Weeds_, however.

I'm rewatching all of _Battlestar Galactica_ in anticipation of
season 4. What a finale that would be. This is my second
all time favorite show, just behind the first 4 seasons of _The
West Wing_ and ahead of the first season of _Days and Nights
of Molly Dodd_ -- when is *that* show coming out of DVD finally?



Anonymous Wrote:
I have never listened to the Galactica "podcast" by creator and writer
Ron Moore
I am in the process of watching all episodes with the commentary on.
The first
thing that jumps out is that Moore is apparently a big movie fan; his
image- and
sometimes montage-driven scenes are informed by _The Wild Bunch_, _The
Longest Day_, of course _Blade Runner_, _Barry Landon_, _Saving
Private
Ryan_, etc ... Not all that
much reference to non-U.S. films though. The other thiing is that
Moore was
an ROTC and son of veterans who has a thing for military history. One
of the
more memorable battle scenes has Apollo watching the distance exchange
of salvos while floating in space, having ejected from his stealth
viper; that scene
was informed by real life accounts of downed American pilots at Midway
who
was shot down near the Japanese battlegroup and had a ringside view of
the
subsequent destruction of the four IJN flattops. Discussions of
history (military
and otherwise) and government/religion goes from present day Iraq all
the way
back to the Greeks and Romans abound, especially when in connection
with
the first few episodes of season 3 where the human population is held
captive
by the Cylons and resort to suicide bomber attacks.

Moore tends to belabor points again and again, and his
commentary certainly doesn't have the smoothness of Annette Insdorf on
the
_Shoot the Piano Player_ disk. Not to mention that it has lots of
interruptions
by cellphones, his wife, garbage trucks, his cat, and f-words (and I
don't mean
the Galacticized "frak" either). But it is an extremely interesting
experience
all the same. Looking forward to the series finale come early next
year.

Anonymous Wrote:
I have never listened to the Galactica "podcast" by creator and writer
Ron Moore
I am in the process of watching all episodes with the commentary on.
The first
thing that jumps out is that Moore is apparently a big movie fan; his
image- and
sometimes montage-driven scenes are informed by _The Wild Bunch_, _The
Longest Day_, of course _Blade Runner_, _Barry Landon_, _Saving
Private
Ryan_, etc ... Not all that
much reference to non-U.S. films though. The other thiing is that
Moore was
an ROTC and son of veterans who has a thing for military history. One
of the
more memorable battle scenes has Apollo watching the distance exchange
of salvos while floating in space, having ejected from his stealth
viper; that scene
was informed by real life accounts of downed American pilots at Midway
who
was shot down near the Japanese battlegroup and had a ringside view of
the
subsequent destruction of the four IJN flattops. Discussions of
history (military
and otherwise) and government/religion goes from present day Iraq all
the way
back to the Greeks and Romans abound, especially when in connection
with
the first few episodes of season 3 where the human population is held
captive
by the Cylons and resort to suicide bomber attacks.

Moore tends to belabor points again and again, and his
commentary certainly doesn't have the smoothness of Annette Insdorf on
the
_Shoot the Piano Player_ disk. Not to mention that it has lots of
interruptions
by cellphones, his wife, garbage trucks, his cat, and f-words (and I
don't mean
the Galacticized "frak" either). But it is an extremely interesting
experience
all the same. Looking forward to the series finale come early next
year.

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