I’ve been trying to pace myself on my sewing projects since it still isn’t dress season (warm days in winter are nice but it’s still technically winter). But what to do while watching season 2 of the new Battlestar Galactica? Knit, a scarf of course: I get enough distraction from the Cylon drama but I can still look up and make comments such as, “Oh come on, Earth is so far in the past it’s become a legend, but there’s still such a thing as piano wire?” [or yellow pencils, or paper printouts, or model ships–in BSG, the future is just like now, but in space!].
Anyway, it’s a scarf. A long rectangle made of yarn.
I like it because it looks like crochet. I don’t know how to crochet; maybe I’ll have to learn.
Turbans for everyone!
I always imagined the imperial noble types from Dune, like the Padisha Emporer and Duke Leto and the rest, to be wearing vaguely-suit-ish military uniform-ish outfits…so new Galactica…the Prez and Billy and Baltar wearing suits…I can buy that.
That’s the thing about filming sci-fi–the costumes are either ordinary or they’re ridiculous and shiny with accompanying crazy headresses (think “Dune” miniseries).
Sci-fi books avoid this problem and just let you imagine your own business suit or turban.
I’m not a big fan of the new Galactica, and one of the reasons is exactly what you mentioned: an unimaginative production design that obstinately insists that a culture that is half a galaxy and thousands of years separated from 21st Century America nevertheless looks pretty much just like… 21st Century America. It’s the people wearing ordinary business suits that get to me.
People make fun of the robes and quasi-Egyptian motifs in the original series, but at least there was some effort at making the costumes look like they came from a different culture. And there was even some justification for it in the scripts if you buy into the Chariots of the Gods angle that underlay the old show.
Okay, fanboy rant over. Nice scarf. 🙂