Kevin Smith No Longer Boarding Galactica
Kevin Smith — the exponentially expanding writer and director behind Clerks, Chasing Amy and Dogma — will not apparently be directing an episode of Battlestar Galactica's fourth season, as was originally planned.
I'm rather relieved. If I need a quick infusion of flatulence and semen jokes, Smith's my man. But when I want bleak, amoral, claustrophic science fiction tension, I'd just as soon let the Farrelly Brothers direct an episode of Battlestar Galactica.
Bluntly, I like Smith more as a monologuist than as a director or writer (A Night With Kevin Smith is a must see: it's easily funnier than anything he's ever done). His schtick in Clerks seemed a lot funnier in retrospect than it did when I revisited it, and his films simply haven't evolved over time: if anything, they've simply become more stilted. He's a funny guy: he just can't write or direct worth a damn.
Not that this will necessarily stultify any of Smith's genre ambitions: he's still on hand to direct an episode of Heroes: Origins and Reaper in the fall.
Kevin Smith And 'Battlestar Galactica'? Forget It [SyFy Portal]
It's funny, because in Evening Harder (Night w/ Kevin Smith 2 - which if being a fan of the first, I'd assume you have seen, but I'm still telling my story.) he goes into his on again, off again directing writing gigs. I think that it was about the Green Hornet movie, he was set to write/direct. But, it was something along the lines of "I get offered these things and I'm like, 'Hell yeah, I want to write and direct Green Hornet' then it comes time to do it and I'm like 'I don't really want to. I just liked that I was offered the chance.''
But, I agree with you on his talent for the most part.