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Jul. 29th, 2005 04:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethHave watched all the deleted scenes on season 1 BSG DVDs
on the whole, I'm glad they were deleted
like actively glad
most of them removed the sledgehammers
(I have a tendency to make my point with a sledgehammer. I have to take them out after the first draft and rely on the audience to be smart enough to catch stuff.)
some of them removed the annoying kid (yaaay!)
Water in particular was *much* more subtle and therefore much better after the deletions. Red on hands is too much, water as an indicator of disaster and life both at once was much more subtle. Because blood is also both at once, depending on where it is, and that was true of the water too.
removal of technobabble, also of the good
the one and only scene I would have preferred back in is when Chief Tyrol gets Socinus out of the brig. Because without that it looks like a continuity error when he turns up on Kobol, but with that you realise it is the personal responsibility of the Chief, who has called those people specifically children, and his, and they risked themselves for him. Twists the emotion tighter on what otherwise can be missed.
Also I'm realising an extra way actors can end up with a different idea of their characters than viewers, because the actors had all those hammers to act, they might not even be aware which bits ended up canon in the end, so they get lines where we get inference. Easy to end up very different.
on the whole, I'm glad they were deleted
like actively glad
most of them removed the sledgehammers
(I have a tendency to make my point with a sledgehammer. I have to take them out after the first draft and rely on the audience to be smart enough to catch stuff.)
some of them removed the annoying kid (yaaay!)
Water in particular was *much* more subtle and therefore much better after the deletions. Red on hands is too much, water as an indicator of disaster and life both at once was much more subtle. Because blood is also both at once, depending on where it is, and that was true of the water too.
removal of technobabble, also of the good
the one and only scene I would have preferred back in is when Chief Tyrol gets Socinus out of the brig. Because without that it looks like a continuity error when he turns up on Kobol, but with that you realise it is the personal responsibility of the Chief, who has called those people specifically children, and his, and they risked themselves for him. Twists the emotion tighter on what otherwise can be missed.
Also I'm realising an extra way actors can end up with a different idea of their characters than viewers, because the actors had all those hammers to act, they might not even be aware which bits ended up canon in the end, so they get lines where we get inference. Easy to end up very different.