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Kitchen Table Kibitzing Friday - By your command, maybe Battlestar Galactica returns, again [1]

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Date: 2023-12-15

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It’s been over a decade but TV should probably have another interstellar wagon train like Battlestar Galactica going from Kobol to Kolob and back to Earth. Much like the quest is about the journey and not the destination, or the path and the project. Badly sourced historical facts and narratives for blockbuster films are no different than the hackneyed premises of television sit-coms or crime procedurals. Small wonder why reality television had a surge.

Genres organize and facilitate cultural, creative and media production and consumption but are rarely central categories in extant research on creative industries. Yet it is genres that keep the market for cultural narratives afloat, not the more speculative and experimental approaches to story. Sadly, the onset of A.I. applications of Big Data now signify to some a defaulting of original thinking as “A.I.” applications are merely larger search descriptions organized into coherent blocks and outlines. “Algorithm” covers a host of sins, including merchandising.

The meta description tag serves the function of advertising copy. It draws readers to a website from the SERP (Search Engine Results Pages (SERP) are the pages displayed by search engines in response to a query by a user), and thus is a very visible and important part of search marketing. A page's meta description should intelligently employ the page’s target keywords, in a natural, non-spammy way that compels the user to click through to the page. Google and other search engines often bold keywords from the user’s query in the description display, which draws the eye of the searcher. Try to match your descriptions to valuable search terms as closely as possible without over-optimizing them. moz.com/...

Perhaps media genres have become over-optimized and we simply prefer known rather than unknown options for escaping into entertainment media, Why else would we consider eSports to be button pushing rather than anything actually requiring bodily skills. Our entertainment content has less hope than affirming dystopian futures and cautionary tales. Battlestar Galactica was both journey and resurrection/reproduction.

It was a strange year in television. The looming finales of critical darlings like Succession, Barry, and Ted Lasso, coupled with reports of a new era of cost-cutting and show-purging from streamers once flush with seemingly limitless budgets, prompted much hand-wringing over the end of Peak TV in exchange for a flood of algorithm-informed chum, shameless IP plays, and hastily thrown-together true-crime dreck ripped straight from the latest gory headlines. No wonder the writers and the actors went on strike, bringing Hollywood to a grinding halt for a period that history books will remember as “hot labor summer.” The effects of the dual strikes have been felt these past few months—and will continue to be felt heading into 2024—as release dates get pushed back and our sudden streaming-queue gaps get filled with more reality television, documentaries, and overseas productions. slate.com/...

All Battlestar Galactica productions share the premise that in a distant part of the universe, a human civilization has extended to a group of planets known as the Twelve Colonies, to which they have migrated from their ancestral homeworld of Kobol. The Twelve Colonies have been engaged in a lengthy war with the Cylons, a cybernetic race whose goal is the extermination of the human species. The Cylons offer peace to the humans, which proves to be a ruse. With the aid of a human named Baltar, the Cylons carry out a massive nuclear attack on the Twelve Colonies and the Colonial Fleet of starships that protect them, devastating the fleet, laying waste to the Colonies, and destroying all but a small remaining population. Survivors flee into outer space aboard a motley fleet of spaceworthy ships. Of the Colonial battle fleet, only the Battlestar Galactica, a gigantic battleship and spacecraft carrier, appears to have survived the attack. Under the leadership of Commander Adama, the Galactica and the pilots of "Viper fighters" lead a fugitive fleet of survivors in search of the fabled thirteenth colony known as Earth. In September 2019, NBCUniversal was planning a new series as part of their Peacock streaming service, set in the same continuity as the 2004 Battlestar Galactica series,[16] and produced by Sam Esmail.[17] In March 2021, writer and producer Michael Lesslie had reportedly left the project, leaving production plans in doubt.[18] (June 2023) en.battlestarwikiclone.org/... Esmail has spoken about a unique release strategy for Battlestar Galactica that may include releasing three consecutive episodes to showcase a three-episode-long battle sequence, despite each episode representing a distinct chapter. Within this battle sequence, the perspective might shift between different characters. Additionally, they are contemplating releasing a separate 20-minute episode that delves into the backstory of one of the characters immediately following the battle sequence. tvovermind.com/… (last week) You just can’t keep a good thing down, especially when it’s being rebooted by one of the most revered names in the industry. According to The Hollywood Reporter (as per SYFY), Mr. Robot creator, writer, and director Sam Esmail, has given updates surrounding what will now be the third installment (second reboot) of Battlestar Galactica. www.msn.com/...

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