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Jan. 4th, 2022 08:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
camwynWell, I'm awake.
This is more of an achievement than it might have previously been, given that I"m trying to reduce the amount of coffee I drink in the hopes that it helps with the tinnitus I've had since last January 22nd. (Not that it's gotten worse or anything, I've just been tapering my coffee use downward over the past few months. My morning stimulant at this point is maybe 1/4 coffee, 3/4 brewed cacao; hopefully the theobromine won't be as much of an issue as straight-up caffeine.)
Been watching the first couple of episodes of neo-BSG with a friend. Mostly I sit and yell at the screen whenever things happen on Caprica. This has nothing to do with the acting and everything to do with my own history of morbid fascination of what happens after the Bomb. And whatever the hell they did to Caprica left Caprica City looking one hundred per cent the OPPOSITE of what it would have looked like after the Bomb. Intact glass everywhere, leaves still on the trees, a complete and total absence of corpses other than one shown with live rats, etc., etc.... look, I spent most of my life since about the third grade horrified by the prospect of nuclear weapons being used, okay? and I took the T. H. White's Merlin approach to fear, which is to say, learn about whatever it is that scares you to pull the fangs of that fear. Even assuming the Cylons used the equivalent of neutron bombs to take down the humans and leave the infrastructure standing, Caprica City would not have looked like a perfectly tidy 21st century North American downtown that happened to have conducted a completely orderly evacuation of all inhabitants, vehicles, and domestic animals. There would not have been living pigeons. *seethe* *fume*
Anyway, we're up to... I dunno what the episode name was, but the one with the independent tribunal... and we've both watched the entirety of the original series, although I have been told enough about Galactica 1980 to slot it into the Star Trek V - Don't Watch, Don't Acknowledge category. Currently we're speculating on a Galactica version that isn't as hell-bent on HOLDING A MIRROR UP TO MODERN AMERICAN SOCIETY, with the option of elements from both the original series and this one. But, since there are no evil mid-level corporate executives to whinge about casting more pretty white people, our version would be running with at least some of Patrick McGee's original opening narration involving other Terran societies. I mean, we'd be saddled with the zodiacal naming on the Twelve Colonies, and as many character names as possible should still be recognizable, but it'd be something to see a Galactica setting that actually had at least some aesthetics or other elements from the Mayans or the Toltecs or any other great voyaging cultures throughout history.
... which is a roundabout way of saying that right at the moment we haven't gotten very far with the casting but I've managed to pin down a couple of actors of Polynesian heritage for various parts. Starting with Nathaniel Lees as Commander Atama, since some Googling indicated that that's the Maori version of the name Adam, and- depending on whether you want the Count or the profoundly unimpressive Gaius- either Temuera Morrison or Taika Waititi as Baltar. Uli Latukefu for Apollo. Haven't gotten much farther than that.
This is more of an achievement than it might have previously been, given that I"m trying to reduce the amount of coffee I drink in the hopes that it helps with the tinnitus I've had since last January 22nd. (Not that it's gotten worse or anything, I've just been tapering my coffee use downward over the past few months. My morning stimulant at this point is maybe 1/4 coffee, 3/4 brewed cacao; hopefully the theobromine won't be as much of an issue as straight-up caffeine.)
Been watching the first couple of episodes of neo-BSG with a friend. Mostly I sit and yell at the screen whenever things happen on Caprica. This has nothing to do with the acting and everything to do with my own history of morbid fascination of what happens after the Bomb. And whatever the hell they did to Caprica left Caprica City looking one hundred per cent the OPPOSITE of what it would have looked like after the Bomb. Intact glass everywhere, leaves still on the trees, a complete and total absence of corpses other than one shown with live rats, etc., etc.... look, I spent most of my life since about the third grade horrified by the prospect of nuclear weapons being used, okay? and I took the T. H. White's Merlin approach to fear, which is to say, learn about whatever it is that scares you to pull the fangs of that fear. Even assuming the Cylons used the equivalent of neutron bombs to take down the humans and leave the infrastructure standing, Caprica City would not have looked like a perfectly tidy 21st century North American downtown that happened to have conducted a completely orderly evacuation of all inhabitants, vehicles, and domestic animals. There would not have been living pigeons. *seethe* *fume*
Anyway, we're up to... I dunno what the episode name was, but the one with the independent tribunal... and we've both watched the entirety of the original series, although I have been told enough about Galactica 1980 to slot it into the Star Trek V - Don't Watch, Don't Acknowledge category. Currently we're speculating on a Galactica version that isn't as hell-bent on HOLDING A MIRROR UP TO MODERN AMERICAN SOCIETY, with the option of elements from both the original series and this one. But, since there are no evil mid-level corporate executives to whinge about casting more pretty white people, our version would be running with at least some of Patrick McGee's original opening narration involving other Terran societies. I mean, we'd be saddled with the zodiacal naming on the Twelve Colonies, and as many character names as possible should still be recognizable, but it'd be something to see a Galactica setting that actually had at least some aesthetics or other elements from the Mayans or the Toltecs or any other great voyaging cultures throughout history.
... which is a roundabout way of saying that right at the moment we haven't gotten very far with the casting but I've managed to pin down a couple of actors of Polynesian heritage for various parts. Starting with Nathaniel Lees as Commander Atama, since some Googling indicated that that's the Maori version of the name Adam, and- depending on whether you want the Count or the profoundly unimpressive Gaius- either Temuera Morrison or Taika Waititi as Baltar. Uli Latukefu for Apollo. Haven't gotten much farther than that.
