Battlestar Gallactica - Series 1 Vol.1 DVD

Advantages: Characters, addictive and gripping plot....well, everything really.
Disadvantages: Addictive, therefore very time-consuming

...was recently coerced into watching Battlestar Galactica by my 'other half' who insisted that I would love it, despite my misgivings. Please bear in mind that I have not seen, nor do I know anything about, the original 1970s series of the same name, so this will not in any way be a comparison, simply a review of this series in its own right. Where it all began (without giving everything away): --------------------------------------------------------------------- ...
...to anyone thinking of watching Battlestar Galactica (henceforth known as BSG because it's way too long a title to write over and over). Without the knowledge and character introductions provided by the pilot, I can imagine it would be more difficult to 'get into' the series or to understand certain aspects. Every episode does begin with a "previously on BSG", so you would have an idea, but there's really no substitute for the introduction that the ... Read review

Advantages: Sexier, darker and more challeging than the original series
Disadvantages: You will loose track if your only half watching

...big fan of the original Battlestar Galactica series from the late seventies and early eighties so I was very excited when it was announced that a new series was going to be made. I would say that this series has nothing in common with the first series apart from basic story and names. It is darker, there is more plotting, more politics and is much sexier. There is none of the inocense in the original series. The premise of the story is that humans ...
...and the cylons seemed to have vanished from the universe. They have kept a an empty space station where every year they are supposed to meet if they need to talk, to which the cylons have never gone to. Human society has become more and more dependent on networked computers in order to exist. The cylons in the meantime had progressed and eveloved and become biomechanical in their more advanced models. Whilst the humans had become accustomed to ... Read review

Advantages: Looked like a promising update of the Original
Disadvantages: Missing all the magic of the original

Most Si Fi I can get into after I get used to a new idea this is one that I have found difficult to like. At first I thought it was bias to the original series but in some areas I think they have missed or lost the plot all together. So where is it lacking, well in a number of areas actually, lets start with the bad guys. Anyone who will have watched to original show will know the bad guys are the Zylons, metal men(robots) once ruled by humans but ...
...life. The bad guys with that single scanning eye may have been slow and stupid with thier metallic voices but they had a certain charisma. Not so the new metal men who just seem to do nothing but clunk about and thats all. The main bad guys are even worse the head of the zylons look just like us. In fact they are copied over and over. Its a nice idea having zylons that are hard to detect but it does make it hard for the viewer to identifiy and hate ... Read review