l***@my-deja.com
2005-07-25 13:23:50 UTC
There was an article about the new Sci-Fi Channel version of
"Battlestar Galactica" in the Sunday New York Times Magazine of July
17, 2005, with the emphasis on the contributions of producer Ronald D.
Moore (a "Star Trek" veteran). Here's a quote:
[Start Quote] After numerous meetings and a full script treatment,
[Moore] wrote a two-page memo that laid out the basic tenets of what
the new "Battlestar Galactica" would eventually become. "We take as a
given the idea that the traditional space opera, with its stock
characters, techno-double-talk, bumpy-headed aliens, thespian
histrionics and empty heroics has run its course, and a new approach is
required," it began. "Call it 'naturalistic science fiction.'" There
would be no time travel or parallel universes or cute robot dogs. There
would not be "photon torpedoes" but instead nuclear missiles, because
nukes are real and thus are frightening. [End Quote]
Okay, folks, is it just me or does his "new approach" sound exactly
like what they've been doing in anime space opera all these years?
I'm thinking, of course, of "Mobile Suit Gundam" and its various
spin-offs, not to mention "Space Battleship Yamato" and "Macross" and
any of a dozen other prominent anime space shows/OAVs.
I haven't seen any eps. of the new "Galactica" yet, so I can't
compare it to anime. But it irks me when the great work Japanese
animators have been doing in this genre for over 30 years continues to
be ignored by those who worship at the decaying shrines of "Star Trek,"
"Star Wars," and "Galactica."
"Battlestar Galactica" in the Sunday New York Times Magazine of July
17, 2005, with the emphasis on the contributions of producer Ronald D.
Moore (a "Star Trek" veteran). Here's a quote:
[Start Quote] After numerous meetings and a full script treatment,
[Moore] wrote a two-page memo that laid out the basic tenets of what
the new "Battlestar Galactica" would eventually become. "We take as a
given the idea that the traditional space opera, with its stock
characters, techno-double-talk, bumpy-headed aliens, thespian
histrionics and empty heroics has run its course, and a new approach is
required," it began. "Call it 'naturalistic science fiction.'" There
would be no time travel or parallel universes or cute robot dogs. There
would not be "photon torpedoes" but instead nuclear missiles, because
nukes are real and thus are frightening. [End Quote]
Okay, folks, is it just me or does his "new approach" sound exactly
like what they've been doing in anime space opera all these years?
I'm thinking, of course, of "Mobile Suit Gundam" and its various
spin-offs, not to mention "Space Battleship Yamato" and "Macross" and
any of a dozen other prominent anime space shows/OAVs.
I haven't seen any eps. of the new "Galactica" yet, so I can't
compare it to anime. But it irks me when the great work Japanese
animators have been doing in this genre for over 30 years continues to
be ignored by those who worship at the decaying shrines of "Star Trek,"
"Star Wars," and "Galactica."