OK, so I don't go along with most others in rating this show, but that's only because we live in a world where there is a race to the bottom for show quality. Here's why it sucked:
1) Starbuck is a MAN!!! He will always be a man. Try remaking Star Wars and turning Han Solo into a woman while making Leia a prince. You get the picture. They destroyed one of the iconic masculine characters for boys my age growing up. Turning him into a woman was pathetic in the extreme. And they did almost as bad with Boomer, but Boomer wasn't as tied into the ladies man, macho style as Starbuck so it wouldn't have been as bad if they did the sex change operation only on him.
2) Ties??? Business suits??? Twelve hour clocks that hang on a wall??? Spacecraft that have interiors just like airplanes??What the hey??? Oh sure, we separate from them for tens of thousands of years and we're both somehow to develop along the same lines? Worse, with Caprica they had 1930's style cars! How ridiculous is that! Hey, when Columbus landed in the Caribbean, do you think he expected to find churches, buildings with Gothic, Florentine, and Roman-style architecture, and other European-style caravels? True, they have to speak English for obvious reasons, but c'mon! The creators of the old Battlestar Galactica didn't go for such nonsense.
3) Sex with Cylons??? Look, I know the concept of a human-looking Cylon came out of the old Galatica 1980, but they really went overboard with this. But that's to be expected in this age when sex, hetero, homo, or otherwise, is celebrated on TV.
4) What's up with Baltar?? He is supposed to be an evil, conniving dictator, not some convoluted idiot.
5) Colonel Tighe is not some drunk white guy. He is a serious man who always has it together.
6) And finally, the last straw in the pilot episode that set me dead set against watching any of the subsequent episodes of the alleged Galactica (if you really want to call it that) series: Adama saying at the end he didn't believe Earth existed. What a piece of blasphemous trash. It was one of the core dogmas of Galactica that Adama believed in Earth's existence. He pursued it with a passion that drove his entire people. Once the new Adama said that, I decided right then and there to leave. I am proud to say to this day I have not watched a single episode of this trash, ever.
Perhaps I am simply being a little nostalgic for a popular TV series of my youth that was ended way before its time. Looking back I do recognize some cheesiness in some of its elements, but aside from special effects, it was a heck of a lot better than this stinking turd.
I can't even give this a one-star rating, really. It deserves no stars. But I guess I have to do that if I want this posted.
Thank goodness at least the new Galactica and Caprica are both dead.
1) Starbuck is a MAN!!! He will always be a man. Try remaking Star Wars and turning Han Solo into a woman while making Leia a prince. You get the picture. They destroyed one of the iconic masculine characters for boys my age growing up. Turning him into a woman was pathetic in the extreme. And they did almost as bad with Boomer, but Boomer wasn't as tied into the ladies man, macho style as Starbuck so it wouldn't have been as bad if they did the sex change operation only on him.
2) Ties??? Business suits??? Twelve hour clocks that hang on a wall??? Spacecraft that have interiors just like airplanes??What the hey??? Oh sure, we separate from them for tens of thousands of years and we're both somehow to develop along the same lines? Worse, with Caprica they had 1930's style cars! How ridiculous is that! Hey, when Columbus landed in the Caribbean, do you think he expected to find churches, buildings with Gothic, Florentine, and Roman-style architecture, and other European-style caravels? True, they have to speak English for obvious reasons, but c'mon! The creators of the old Battlestar Galactica didn't go for such nonsense.
3) Sex with Cylons??? Look, I know the concept of a human-looking Cylon came out of the old Galatica 1980, but they really went overboard with this. But that's to be expected in this age when sex, hetero, homo, or otherwise, is celebrated on TV.
4) What's up with Baltar?? He is supposed to be an evil, conniving dictator, not some convoluted idiot.
5) Colonel Tighe is not some drunk white guy. He is a serious man who always has it together.
6) And finally, the last straw in the pilot episode that set me dead set against watching any of the subsequent episodes of the alleged Galactica (if you really want to call it that) series: Adama saying at the end he didn't believe Earth existed. What a piece of blasphemous trash. It was one of the core dogmas of Galactica that Adama believed in Earth's existence. He pursued it with a passion that drove his entire people. Once the new Adama said that, I decided right then and there to leave. I am proud to say to this day I have not watched a single episode of this trash, ever.
Perhaps I am simply being a little nostalgic for a popular TV series of my youth that was ended way before its time. Looking back I do recognize some cheesiness in some of its elements, but aside from special effects, it was a heck of a lot better than this stinking turd.
I can't even give this a one-star rating, really. It deserves no stars. But I guess I have to do that if I want this posted.
Thank goodness at least the new Galactica and Caprica are both dead.
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The adventures of Commander William Adama and his intergalactic crew continue as the Battlestar Galactica protects a civilian fleet of survivors from a nuclear holocaust caused by the robotic Cylons. The Cylons may still be among them, plotting their demise. The only hope left for humanity is to discover their distant cousin planet called Earth, before they run out of supplies or destroyed by the Cylons.
The adventures of Commander William Adama and his intergalactic crew continue as the Battlestar Galactica protects a civilian fleet of survivors from a nuclear holocaust caused by the robotic Cylons. The Cylons may …
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