-- Battlestar Galactica and Diving Through the Old Sphincter

This is about Battlestar Galactica and taking the intergalactic plunging through the old sphincter

It’s really cheap-shit producing when you have murderous aliens who look just like their human victims. It’s saving money. No more expensive costumes. No more time and money spent on rubber masks and fake limbs. Other examples of cheap-shit producing:

—Gene Roddenberry saving heaps of money by inventing the transporter beam (no need for shuttle models and concommitant expense).

—The producers of Stargate SG1 saving even more money by inventing what Richard Dean Anderson called “the old sphincter,” thereby eliminating spacecraft entirely.

If BSG gets more soapoperish the show will be 100% backstory with no need for space hardware at all.

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