Glorious
Korean life August 5th. 2007, 1:13am
After a patient wait, the first season of Battlestar Galactica (배틀스타 갤럭티카) is being shown as a marathon on Fox Korea. Check here to see the listings. I’ve been a going crazy waiting for this show to finally air in Korea on a network. Without a series being aired, the chance I’d ever find it for sale on DVD to watch with my wife is extremely small. It’s not for sale in this region currently, and I can’t find a place with Korean subtitles that feature this show.
It’s either watch the series on television, or on DVD if I want my wife to watch it with me. I’ve converted two English speaking coworkers to the show, but it’d be entirely more awesome to get my wife watching “That show with Cylons and space ships”.
We went shopping for a new fan for the hot apartment. The fan has a remote control! Perfect when you don’t want to get out of bed, or off the couch during an episode. After the shopping, I sat my wife down and more or less forced her to start watching the show with me.
I haven’t watched the first season in years, so it’s great as a refresher, and my wife has never seen it. She doesn’t get into science fiction, but she’s stuck around. I’m totally geeking out and planning to watch the entire marathon. I don’t have anything else to do tomorrow anyway.
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August 5th, 2007 at 2:35 pm
Tell me how your conversion turns out. I have tried twice to get my girlfriend into BSG, but we never had the subtitles.
August 6th, 2007 at 12:03 pm
Sadly, my wife didn’t take well to the show. She said it was “too complicated”. She didn’t catch the mini-series that introduced and set up the characters, and caught the show about four episodes in to about the seventh or eight episode. I’d be pretty confused if I came in on the middle of the season too. I gave her some background so she could follow the episodes as we watched, but it was a lot to take in.
It’s very unlike typical Korean dramas she watches, where the cast and plots are interchangable, and even if you catch the show at any point in it’s run. She watches television for a fundamentally different reason. I find Battlestar Galactica a challenging, thought provoking show. She wants to something that gets her mind off her problems.
I think she’ll watch it if it’s on regularly ONLY because I am.