As much as I like laying on the couch being phenomenally lazy, this shit is starting to get old.
It’s been about a week and a half now since I managed to pull something in my back. I seem to do this about once a year. This time has actually been fairly mild compared to the last time, but it still sucks. Last time I had a hard time sleeping because of the pain. This time, it’s just really uncomfortable sitting in my office chair for longer than an hour, and standing for longer than 20 minutes or so.
This weekend, my wife & I spent a good 7 hours in one day laying on the couch watching TV. We watched the season thus far of Leverage (an entertaining, if slightly ridiculous show), as well as clearing out our TiVo, including Another Cinderella Story… so… yeah. Up yours, back!
Anyway, I’ve decided to finally start watching Battlestar Galactica. Well, start watching it again. I started watching the first season a couple years ago, but lost interest at some point (I KNOW, I’M A NERD SO I’M SUPPOSED TO LOVE IT, but so far, I don’t).
Right now, the problem is that I can’t remember where exactly I left off, so I figured the best idea was to start over from the beginning of the first season.
So, yeah, I don’t love it. I’m hoping it gets better after the first season, but so far, the cinematography kind of bugs me, and the individual episode stories haven’t been great. I am enjoying the overall story arc, but the episode where they have to search for water = boring, and the episode where they have to get the prisoners to help them search for water = boring, and the episode where there’s an accident and the writers use the deaths as an excuse to give us backstory on the characters = boring. Yeah, I think I found where I lost interest.
But, everybody says it’s awesome, so I’m sure it’s awesome.
In a more general sense, something about it reminds me of Star Trek: TNG (I have no idea why), and that bugs me. And there’s a lot of zooming and hand-held camera work. Which would be fine if it was a horror movie we were talking about, but it’s not a horror movie.
I think I’d be happier if there were more fights with awesome robots and less character-driven drama. Maybe I should time travel to the 70’s.
In other news…
Umm…
Damn you, back!