It's a full life, if a trifle banal

I've only caught the odd little snippet of BSG, never a full episode. I happened to watch the last ten minutes or so of last night's episode - hey, I started watching B7 with "Star One", this is not unusual practice for me. I was most impressed by the very real look of the production. All the clothes and tents and furniture were genuine, practical items. The baby was in a wolly hat, not some kind of silver foil thingy. And the Cylon ship flying overhead really looked like part of the environment. Doing CGI spacecraft that look credible flying through an atmosphere is something that seems to have been cracked quite recently - I first saw it in Firefly - and it gives a sense of solidity and reality that flying around in the blank and sterile space environment just doesn't afford. The muted, naturalistic colours and the verite-style camerawork enhance the tangibility and believability of the fictional world.

Boy, those US viewers really did get a shock when DW took over the BSG timeslot, didn't they?