Comment Re:I tried to like it. I really did. (Score 1) 602
I never watched BSG or C but from what i gather, they tried turning it into a soap and doing it on the cheap. Boys like special fx and girls like character development. The former is easy to do but expensive for what you get. The latter is cheap but harder to do in the long run. In the end, budget usually wins.
Your message is ambiguous--when you say "doing it on the cheap" are you talking about BSG, or Caprica, or both?
I never did get to watch Caprica. I've dissed cable and sat tv for awhile now. BSG, on the other hand, I watched. I would say that, regardless of how much they paid their actors, the audience saw performance above and beyond that of the typical science fiction show of late. It's interesting that some of them often lived as day actors in Vancouver, grabbing parts here and there as they could. But the performances they gave! How about the job Tricia Helfer did (hmm, I might be biased). She rocked. No, the casting for BSG was terrific.
So on to the topic of girls: never in my life have I known of a sci-fi show that lots of girls ended up liking. You're stereotyping big-time, too. Why should my maleness preclude me from wanting "character development"? Bah, rubbish man, rubbish. I even got my sister-in-law to like BSG, which she watched until the end, as did other women I know, including a romantic interest. Star Trek never had the same effect in my world