The aim to make your tv series appear "dark" or "edgy" or "gritty" or whatever does not mean that the screen has to be literally too dark to make out anything. I get that there are mood lighting choices, and atmosphere through colors and so on, but it completely defeats any kind of purpose if your viewer can't see or follow what's going on. It is
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SGU was really extreme. A lot of the time most of the screen was nearly black with some dimly lit circle where you could barely make out the characters doing something. They really need to learn how to make things threatening or claustrophic or sinister or whatever they are trying to do, without plunging everything into total darkness. It's just full of fail in a visual medium if you can't see anything.
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Then the glowy moss will try to eat them and the ship (cf. the Balrog in one of James Alan Gardner's novels) :-D
I didn't find the darkness quite as irritating as I was anticipating, but yeah, if we spend a lot of this season on the ship, I think that dark and dingy feel is going to get real old, real fast.
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I really do hope the darkness was a deliberate choice for the premiere to help add to the general atmosphere of overwhelming confusion and chaos, and that as the crew get more familiar with their surroundings, we'll start to see the lights get a bit brighter.
I also really hope the flashbacks become less and less frequent as the series progresses. Flashbacks were one of the reasons I ended up giving up on Lost within six or so episodes. As a storytelling gimmick, it doesn't work for me. *shrug*
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ok, that may be too much for their minds to grasp.
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hm, you know -- this problem has gotten a lot worse as TV screens have gotten larger and higher-def. I think the people making the shows are always watching on very large high-def screens, so they don't realize how it looks on a normal-sized, normal-quality screen.
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