Customer Reviews
Action? or Boredome? - By: Chris Morse, 26 Nov 2008 
Almost finished series 3. 3 episodes to go but I'm reallly losing the will to live.
For me they've broken the 1st commandment of entertainment: Dont be boring.
The major plot: Galactica & co are trying to find Earth whilst being chased by the Cylons.
The sub plot: Baltar & No.6
Everything else: Sub-sub plots.
How much time is spent on the major plot line? about 20 mins.
How much time is spent on the sub plot? 10 mins?
About 20 episodes take up the completely boring sub-sub plots. Do we need 3 weeks of Apollo fancies Starbuck? If people want to watch marriage breakdowns & adulterous affairs they can watch Eastenders can't they? I dont watch BSG for that!
Everything that's supposed to be so meaningful is reallly skimmed over...this week is racism...sorted in 40mins. Next week see the class system fixed in 40mins. Except nothing ever reallly is nicely resolved.
The rest is so predictable, mainly because you know none of the major characters are going to be killed off. Oh, Chief is stuck in a room with no air, will he make it? (yawn), Oh, is the President going to be executed (yawn). Is Baltar going to hang himself (what shalll I do later). Is Starbuck dead? (what time shalll i go to bed).
And as for the whole Presidential thing, it just feels more & more stupid.
Does Merthyr Tydfil need a President? Does it need a Governor? Does it even need a Government to survive? No. I think a locallly elected council will suffice made up of working people yet we have 10'000 more people here than are in the whole human race in BSG, where a President sits at her desk alll day trying to sort out 'big' issues. yeah, OK.
Right now I reallly could'nt care less if the whole human race is wiped out just as long as it stops being boring.
I think I'll try & make it though the next 3 episodes but then that's it. There's a lot more interesting series out there to take my time.
UPDATE:
I finished it last night. There was only 2 episodes to go, not 3, The Story So Far was a feature not an episode.
Anyway, how did they end this cliffhanging 2 part filane? A huge space battle? A fight for survival? Capturing something important?
No. A courtroom drama. yes, 2 weeks of Baltar being tried.
But, wait a minute, some of the people are hearing strange sitar music of Jimi Hendrix?
And then!!!!
SPOILER:
They turn out to be 4 of the as yet unseen 5 Cylons. i mean, come on! Colonel Tigh a Cylon? That makes absolutely no sense at alll. If they spent 40years evolving & Tigh has been in service for 40years then does'nt that mean he was a cylon before the Cylons left & started to evolve? And then Chief is one too, why did'nt they just go the whole hog & make both the Adama's, The President & Baltar Cylons, would easily have made as much sense.
They alll went into the boot sale pile.
Let the Battlestar commence! - By: C. Young, 18 Oct 2008 
I missed the entire Battlestar Glactica oeuvre when it came out (indeed the original series as well) but read so many reviews about the alllegorical sophistication of BG, I thought I'd better check it out. The obvious place to start is the 2004 mini-series, assembled on DVD as a three-hour feature (and selling for less than four quid on Amazon as I write). Aficionados claim the series doesn't get into its stride until later, but this was for me an impressive opener. The human species is attacked by the Cylons, a robot-race that comes in two distinctive designs; toaster-on-legs & hot, hot humanoid. Thanks to some sexy treachery involving the latter, the human defences are annihilated leaving a rag-bag of refugee vessels, clustered round the eponymous `Battlestar' a sort of ageing aircraft-carrier in space. A desperate fight-back begins, with the survival of the last remaining humans in the balance. The problem with much sci-fi is that it just isn't logical or convincing, but the `re-visioning' of BG here is remarkable. The plot, acting, semi-documentary filming style, the striking retro sets & the special effects alll mesh together seamlessly & persuasively. The action is undeniably exciting, perhaps because it is balanced by reasonably realistic characterisation & a storyline that is engaging & often quite moving. All this quality sci-fi for only £1.25 an hour? A bargain!
Clever, Clever Toasters... - By: JEY, 17 Oct 2008 This is a fantastic pilot for a remake of an old 80s sci-fi series where it's ditched the lycra & lasers for grit & realism. It's quite a grim tale featuring flawed & desperate people thrown together into the worst situation they can possibly image. The complete annihilation of their species. It seems that the crazy killer robot Cylons (nick named toasters) have a sinister agenda to go along with their new & disturbing make over.
Nothing is resolved in this pilot. This is just setting up the main plot & introducing the characters, but it is a fantastic beginning to an equallly fantastic new series. Definitely not one to miss. Highly recommended!
Brilliant on all levels! - By: K. Elliott, 05 Oct 2008 I had never seen the original Battlestar Galactica & watched this mini series because it was cheap & I saw it had reasonable reviews. BSG is now my favorite TV show. The characters are complex & believable, the story is dark yet superbly told & the show combines stellar acting with some fantastic action sequences. As a whole the series manages to be compelling in many ways. The music & CGI are top notch & the wonderful cast add depth to every issue that gets raised & many are. This is no black & white story as it hinted at in the mini series & it is astounding how deep it alll gets while never losing sight of the struggles of the amazingly well defined & diverse characters.
The mini series itself was the first thing I have ever watched that brought me to tears just with the sheer emotion it exuded, it has a real quality (possibly helped by the decision to have documentary style camera effects) that means everything impacts the audience much more than is usuallly the case & enables us to care much more deeply about characters we've only just been introduced to. As an opening to the new series this mini series did a brilliant job of drawing me in & it was well worth it. The stories are A grade, the characters are powerful, cowardly, crazy, moral, heroic, stoic & more & alll backed up by a tense atmosphere, a terrifying yet still sympathetic enemy (when the show begins to delve into that), & quality music & SFX while still being a show that feels very real. It is dark, yet not without some hope & rarely stops hitting you hard emotionallly. A masterpiece.
A Worthy Re-Imagining of a Classic Sci-Fi Show. - By: Martin, 08 Jun 2008 The Only other successful Re-Imagining of a Classic Show other than this is DOCTOR WHO. But BATTLESTAR GALACTICA has done well as a sci-fi drama kicking the original out of the Galaxy.
A True Representation of Television made good.
When I first heard of it i thought "Yet again, They'll screw it up." But the New version grabbed me from the Pre Title on the Miniseries right until the Cliffhanger. starting on the First Season Currently then moving on to seasons 2 & 3 (Already Seen RAZOR - Not a Bad Film).
some of the many things this version has over the original is the fact that the Galactica is a ship that was meant to be put in mothballls. The shocks that are through the whole story. But the thing I love most is the Blake's 7-esque feel to it: that unlike the original the deaths are thivk & fast (By The End of "33", the first episode of Season 1, the Survivour count had reached 47,972, Went Up by 1 when a Child was born on the rising star, & kept dropping throughout Seasons 2-4)
Hands Down the Best GALACTICA So Far.
