"I didn’t know I was this geeky until I discovered the online world through my office’s 2400 baud modem back in ’93." It’s the story, stupid
Buffy and BSG writer Jane Espenson says:
“First off, is life in Jane Austen’s England any less
exotic and strange than life on Galactica or Serenity? But the real
parallel is a set of characters who seem completely fresh and real and
identifiable no matter how alien the world they’re inhabiting.You know what current show I also see as having this quality? Friday
Night Lights. It’s a gorgeous show that consistently reminds me of
Battlestar Galactica and Firefly — it creates/reflects a real world
filled with lots of real and complex characters with consistent but
constantly-changing relationships, shot as if the camera just happened
to be catching slices of real lives… the fact that FNL is set in
small-town Texas instead of on a spaceship doesn’t matter one bit to
me. Both worlds are a little bit strange to me — what does it matter
that one requires artificial gravity and other artificial turf?”
That’s for every person I’ve met in my life who told me ‘Ugh, I don’t like SciFi, it’s not real.’ And for every person who isn’t watching Friday Night Lights or Battlestar Galactica, and should.
