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| Value for Money | 10/10 |
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| Overall rating | 10/10 |
By Simon26
on 14th Mar 2006
| Starring (Main Performers) | Edward James Olmos, Katee Sackhoff, Jamie Bamber, |
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| Value for money | 10/10 |
| Overall value | 10/10 |
 Simon26's recommendation | |
One of the more realistic Sci Fi shows.
Better than the original, its all grown up.
None so far.
I have to admit when I first heard there was to be a re-make of Battlestar Galactica I was one of the "They'll never make it work" crowd.
How wrong I was.
Here we have a TV show that takes its roots from a classic and grows in a completey new direction. Most of the characters are based on their previous incarnations; we have the veteran and father figure in Commander Adama, the cylon collaborator (unwittingly this time) Gaius Baltar, heroic Viper pilot (and Adama's son) Apollo, and the cool yet rebellious cigar smoking Starbuck, only this time Starbuck is a lady, Lt Kara Thrace. Another character who has made the switch from male to female in this remake is Boomer, only I won't go into detail on this one, but there's a shock or two in store. There's also the fantastic character that is Number Six, a Cylon agent and tormentor of Dr Baltar.
The characters interact wonderfully and the sense of togetherness they portray as a crew and fleet really does come off well.
Hardware wise, Galactica and its fighters have had a slight facelift, as have the Cylons, mainly thanks to the wonders of CGI. Galactica herself keeps her basic shape from the original series, only now she's a little more streamlined and compact. The colonial Vipers stay pretty much the same, thanks to a clever sub-plot about most of the new style Vipers being lost and having to drag the old models out of retirement - a great excuse to keep the old style Vipers in a new style show!
Last but not least the Cylons. We still have the cyborg centurions, only now they are far more menacing, and we have the 'human Cylons', of which there are many copies, one of which is the delicious Number Six.
The Space battles are eerily quiet and extremely realistic, with each Viper/Cylon fighter manouvre complemented by small thrusters firing from the ships, and the weapons fire and thruster sounds are muted slightly, as though your listening to it from the cockpit.
Overall this is a new spin not only on an old classic, but in the way Science Fiction is usually done, and its fantastic, go and buy the DVD now!
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on 26th Apr 2006