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'Gimmicky' cinematography
By who1

I think the show should do more adventurous camerawork. The cinematography and lighting for the Trek shows has always been amazing, but it's usually also very subtle and rarely calls attention to itself (things like that wonderful crane shot that first reveals Ops to us in 'Emissary' - very accomplished, but not ostentatious.) But Trek is already being labeled a dinosaur of a franchise, so they'd might as well take more risks with the camera angles and camera movements - many golden opportunities were missed in the last few years where lackluster stories could have been glossed over/amped up a bit more if the directors and D.P. were given a freer reign - sometimes the stories -need- to have the focus taken off of them a bit as they aren't as strong as they used to be, even now. IMO the flashiest, most innovative thing about 'Battlestar Galactica' is the style in which is is filmed and rendered - fundamentally, the stories and characters aren't so different or going through anything so far removed from Dominion War era DS9 or even last season's 'Enterprise.' But the show is so different-looking from the rest of sci-fi on TV, it is being labelled as cutting edge, while 'Enterprise,' with its superior production values is lamented as a lumbering snore, even as it continues to employ the faster paced editing style and action-focus of last season.
Cinematography is merely a means to serve a story, but it serves the series as a whole if those in charge of it are allowed to experiment and grab people's attention a bit more - sometimes that's the best way to get people engaged in a story they might not want to sit through at first.

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