# Battlestar Galactica: Seriously, can you stop shaking the camera?

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-seriously-can-you-stop-shaking-the-camera/320263
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [September 5, 2005, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-seriously-can-you-stop-shaking-the-camera/320263 "2005-09-05T23:31:01Z")
**Posts on this page:** 1
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

### Author: ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2005, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-seriously-can-you-stop-shaking-the-camera/320263/1 "2005-09-05T23:31:01Z")

</div>

We just watched the first two episodes of this season’s BSG this weekend, and while the shows themselves were fantastic, the non-stop shaky camera work has got to go. I understand they’re going for a _cinéma vérité_ effect (or they just have terrible camera operators), but dudes, stop. Please. I don’t want to have to take a Gravol to watch a tv show. Maybe a teeny bit of shaky camera in the middle of say, hand-to-hand combat. Maybe not even then. It’s just too distracting and discomforting in a bad way, not in a good, “make you feel like you’re in the middle of the action” way.

Is there someone I can email with this complaint? It is so damned close to the absolutely best television series on tv right now - just this one little thing.