remarkably unremarkable
Mar. 6th, 2009 07:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
orangerfulSo, I was preusing the items up for auction this week even though I can't afford any of it, and it got me thinking about how sort of...well...normal everything on BSG looks. Yeah, so the corners are cut off of their papers and books and photos, but otherwise, a shot glass is a shot glass.
I dunno, maybe it's because I read all those books on special effects/props when I was a kid, but while I love the show, looking through the bits that are being sold, very little grabs me. Apart from things like Six's iconic Red Dress (and other big items that sold for thousands of dollars, check out the catalog for these items), the outfits from the show are very normal bits of clothing. Just cargo pants andwifeCylon-beaters. Their shipboard communication devices are phones, for crying out loud! Not fancy phones from the future (say that ten times fast) but more 1970s clunkers. The chairs from Colonial One could be from Laz E Boy. (Last week's auction had Starbuck's sunglasses and revealed they were just Ralph Lauren Polo shades - nothing extra added to them).
And while things like the pins and the badges are really cool, why not just make a ton of them and sell them in the online store?![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jellibean sent me a BSG Patch, and it looks perfect and didn't have cost the $200 that the Pegasus Patch is going for now.
My favorite has to be the Pyramid ball, which is just a soccer ball that has been spray-painted black and then had a red stripe painted around it.
My favorite items are the character sketches but they are so far out of my price range... it is ridiculous.
BUT ANYWAY - my point is that this show, one of my favorite television shows of all time, set in space, is really one of the most normal shows I've seen. Heck, Buffy had weirder things to auction off when it ended. But I think that is why Battlestar works - we can buy into the reality because it's not all flashing lights and scanning devices. If you ignore the fact that they are in a space ship, the rest of the show is so...normal. Screwed up people leading screwed up lives...IN SPACE!
I know, not really a revelation. It's just been on my mind ever since the auctions started.
If I had a million dollars, I'd totally buy myself some props. Even something as ridiculous as a cubit note. But as it is, I'm just going to blog about how surreal it all is and make myself feel better...
...though starbuck's name plate would be pretty sweet to own...
I dunno, maybe it's because I read all those books on special effects/props when I was a kid, but while I love the show, looking through the bits that are being sold, very little grabs me. Apart from things like Six's iconic Red Dress (and other big items that sold for thousands of dollars, check out the catalog for these items), the outfits from the show are very normal bits of clothing. Just cargo pants and
And while things like the pins and the badges are really cool, why not just make a ton of them and sell them in the online store?
jellibean sent me a BSG Patch, and it looks perfect and didn't have cost the $200 that the Pegasus Patch is going for now. My favorite has to be the Pyramid ball, which is just a soccer ball that has been spray-painted black and then had a red stripe painted around it.
My favorite items are the character sketches but they are so far out of my price range... it is ridiculous.
BUT ANYWAY - my point is that this show, one of my favorite television shows of all time, set in space, is really one of the most normal shows I've seen. Heck, Buffy had weirder things to auction off when it ended. But I think that is why Battlestar works - we can buy into the reality because it's not all flashing lights and scanning devices. If you ignore the fact that they are in a space ship, the rest of the show is so...normal. Screwed up people leading screwed up lives...IN SPACE!
I know, not really a revelation. It's just been on my mind ever since the auctions started.
If I had a million dollars, I'd totally buy myself some props. Even something as ridiculous as a cubit note. But as it is, I'm just going to blog about how surreal it all is and make myself feel better...
...though starbuck's name plate would be pretty sweet to own...
