I love the concept. Coming from the greek for alteration, parallax refers to using multiple points of view to determine distance. It doesn’t take much twisting to say another definition would be the use of altered states as depth perception. So, I dig the term, but I had no idea what the movie was about. [...]
I don’t read comic books; At least I didn’t. But, there I was at the worlds largest Comic Convention. We were filming an interview with Scott McCloud. I had never heard of the guy, so I was a little surprised at the throng assembled for his presentation. And so it began, a cogent presentation of [...]
The only TV show to overtly present monotheistic super-hot, quasi-immortal cyborgs in a to-the-death struggle with their polytheistic, human creators (frequently named after Greek gods) and to take the complications thereof at least somewhat seriously. To be sure, BSG left a lot on the table. The cans of worms and whupass that it opened were expansive, to say the least, and its hard to criticize them for failing to achieve a perfectly satisfying catharsis in each and every case. What with the necessities of keeping the audience “massive” enough to justify being on TV week-in and week-out for all those episodes. So, I come not to bury BSG, but to praise it.
