First of all I AM the bigest BSG fanboy so I am biased...
If you never saw the original read this paragraph:
Though the action scenes are few and far between the rest of the story is decent. The writer basicly scrapped the original story except for two elements (humans & cylons at war). Plus he ripped off all the original names of the characters regardless of gender or even ethnicity, but that doesn't matter, as teh new actors do thier characters a good showing, and some even look like this is gonna be good! I love how the new tech gets F-ed over by the cylons and now this floating "museum" is the only hope of the remaining 50,000 humans in the galaxy. They wanted to get the opera out of space opera (which is silly cause that's what it was desgined for people!), but it sorta works. It's main weak point is that it rips off the original but it's strong points are that the special effects are top notch, the acting is string, and it's ONLY a mini-series so it will be over soon! The new fighters adn teh old look of the Galactica is cool but we need MORE ACTION! especially from teh base Stars...
My overall score out of 10 is a 7-8 I like it a lot.
This is for fans of the original show: Because I loved BSG so much the new writer really upset me from his attitude in the interview (BSG the Low down) He may not realise it but he basicly poo pooed teh original and said, "this is what I thought BSG should be" and basicly said though he hoped fans would like the new one he didn't care. (In fact I don't think he even knows anything about the show besides the opening movie, because he didn't come across very well asbeing very knowledgible about BSG at all! Even some of teh actors in their interviews seemed confused about the cylons.) I would have enjoyed it more if I had never heard of BSG before and knew nothing of the original or the original actors, or of Richard Hatch's bid to do the contunuing story he wrote for teh 20 years annerverasry with the full support of those surviving cast members!!!! I signed the petition last year in support of him! Least they can do is release the rights and green light his story Galactica 20 yarhens later (the Second Comming)! Has anyone seen the trailer at a con? If they could have done the mini-series ove I would have one wish. To make everyone involved watch every episode of the original series (not that crap galactica 80, all the senseless earth garbage!), so they can unserstand the history of the story plus get into the character's heads.
Breakdown
Adama was good, Apollo so far was empty (I have only seen episode1), starbuck has potential, Baltar is a whinny sissy (someone PLEASE shoot him in the head full clip?), the rest - so far- I don't care for... Maybe part two will pick up, plus although the short fights are ok I wanna see the Big G and the Base Stars go toe to toe like the Pegasus did with two of them in the Original! Episodes called "The living Legend part I & II" starring Commander Cain (Sheba's Father)... Forgot the actor but he was teh head controller on teh movie "Airplane!" lol...
"I picked the wrong week to stop killing cylons!"
To clear up any confusion. The cylons were created by a race called the Cylons. They were reptilian humanoids and created a machine army to be slaves and protect their empire. The Machines rebelled and destryoed almost all the original species and took the name Cylons for themselves as an identity. The Cylon Imperious leader appears to be the only , or one of teh only origina cylons left as he is over 1000 years old. and in actuality is teh entity known as Count Eblis (the BSG version of Q but totally evil and more limited)...
The humans and Cylons were at war for almost 1000 years till Baltar arranged for an armistice to be signed by both races at Cimtar on the Cylon border. The stipulation was that all 12 Battlestars attend the "peace Signing". cimtar is far from the 12 colony worlds (named after our astrological constellations: Virgo, Picsis, Taurus, Capricorn ect..).
basically it's an ambush and 1000 fighters (and the two huge tankers that refuled them in the cimtar nebula) tie up colonial forces long enough for all their Base Stars to decimate teh colony worlds... Oh and Baltar flees...
Galactica survies ONlY cause Adama takes the intiative and breaks ranks to go to Caprica's defense but they are too late, and a legend is born...
If you never saw the movie or any of the series I implore you to do so as it is "space Opera" at it's finiest and deservedly should take it's place in the public's perception of sci-fi greatness right along side Star Trek and Star wars, B5 ect...
Oh yeh in case you didn't know there WAS a Wing Commander movie made a fe years ago. If you want to learn how to F -up a movie but still get your point across that is how to do it. I mean they had the ORIGINAL STORY, and all the major characters, (even if they used Freddy Prince Jr instead of LUKE who MADE THAT ROLE FIRST!) he he, bt my two main bithces were the Kilrathi looked sick and pathetic, adn the Confeds only had two types of fighters and they both sucked and looked like WWII corsairs with rockets mounted on teh back!! Were are the WC1,1,3,4, or even 5 ships? they had like over 20 fighter designes they could have used that were cannon and looked just as cool as any other sci-fi show you ever saw. Basicly I was rooting for the Kilrathi cause I'd shoot anyone flying those pieces of garbage out of simpathy!
The WORST part of it was they did the kilrathi ships right on though???
