Hugo Boss
And the nominees in the Hugos in the for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form category, are…
- Battlestar Galactica “Pegasus” Written, Anne Cofell Saunders.
Directed, Michael Rymer. (NBC Universal/British Sky Broadcasting)
- Doctor Who “Dalek” Written, Robert Shearman. Directed, Joe Ahearne.
(BBC Wales/BBC1) - Doctor Who “The Empty Child” & “The Doctor Dances” Written, Steven
Moffat. Directed, James Hawes. (BBC Wales/BBC1) - Doctor Who “Father’s Day” Written, Paul Cornell. Directed, Joe
Ahearne. (BBC Wales/BBC1) - Jack-Jack Attack Written & Directed, Brad Bird. (Walt Disney
Pictures/Pixar Animation) - Lucas Back in Anger Written, Phil Raines and Ian Sorensen. Directed,
Phil Raines. (Reductio Ad Absurdum Productions) - Prix Victor Hugo Awards Ceremony (Opening Speech and Framing
Sequences). Written and performed, Paul McAuley and Kim Newman.
Directed, Mike & Debby Moir. (Interaction Events)
Let’s recap: Doctor Who: 3, Battlestar Galactica: 1. Even if Doctor Who loses, that’s still one hell of an achievement.
Ladies, gentlemen, commence further gloating…
Posted by Graeme on Wednesday, March 22 at 2:52 pm
7 Comments...
Hiho,
The only downside to this is the risk of splitting the Doctor Who vote…
Cu,
Andrew
Posted by Andrew on 03/22 at 07:15 PM
But that gives us the necessary spin (and moral high ground) should we lose: we can just say ‘well, the Doctor Who vote was split’. It’s a win/win scenario as far as I’m concerned…
Posted by Graeme on 03/22 at 07:19 PM
I for one think that Who gets it right in all the ways that BG gets it wrong: the former is dramatic & can be serious when called for, but is based on a sense of fun & adventure & exploration, while the latter is dour & dire takes itself waaaay too seriously. (btw, how many shows w/ thinly veiled 9/11 metaphors as operative narrative devices are able to avoid critique by the catch-all adjective ‘dark’?) Just my 2 cents…
Posted by Jimmy on 03/22 at 10:59 PM
I’ve read on OG that B*G has one episode because it’s the only one they submitted because multiple nominees from one show have never won before. I don’t know if this is really the case but it sounds reasonable.
As for the differences between the two I can’t agree that B*G gets it wrong where Doctor Who gets it right. One show is American, one British. They’re right for their respectives countries and as we’ve seen the new WHO is much more Americanized than Battlestar would ever be Britishized.
Besides that in the drama of the show I don’t know how 100 hellish years on Earth and billions killed isn’t a bit dour and dire. The Doctor of course doesn’t have to hang around and can leave the Galactica people can’t escape.
Posted by Ryan on 03/23 at 05:00 PM
And as if that wasn’t enough, Doctor Who has also been nominated for two BAFTAs - Best Drama and the people’s choice award for favourite programme:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/news/cult/news/drwho/2006/03/27/30667.shtml
Posted by saraquazel on 03/27 at 07:26 PM
I think it’s pretty obvious that some other Sci-Fi shows have ‘stolen’ things from Doctor Who. The Borg is a fairly obvious one, but I remember seeing an episode of Star Trek: Enterprise where they capture a “time ship” that is bigger on the inside than on the outside.
It was so freakin’ similar I felt for SURE there had to be some kind of ‘Special Thanks to Dr. Who” in the end credits. But nooooo….
Posted by on 03/28 at 05:03 AM
Pegasus was an incredible episode! It’s going to be tough competition. I honestly don’t remember the last time I felt my blood-pressure rise, and heartbeat pounding, watching TV.
Nick
Posted by Nick on 04/06 at 06:46 PM
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