I am a 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 cylons have had a truce for over fifty years 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 piece, the cylons had been implanting sleepers and spies, who look and act like us, to introduce viruses and general sabotage. This activity ends in a climax when the cylons launch a devastating attack on humanity.
This then becomes the "rag tag" fleet with less than fifty thousand humans on which humanity depends to survive.
My feelings are that this series is what original series should have been. It stays strong and focused on the plight of the fleet and it's people. It brings the elements of revolt, dissatisfaction, power strugles and politics any situation like this could bring. This happens on a backdrop of a constant military operation for survival. What it does not do is go into separate flights of fancy like the original series, or have the cylons disappear after a few episodes.
For those who are fans of the Original series, Commander Adama is still there as a charismatic military leader but is now counter balanced by President Roslin who represents a questioning female political leader. Coronel Thigh (second in command) is no longer squeaky clean but a recovering alcoholic who often relapses. Dr Baltar in the original series was a madman who sold out humanity, in this series he is a charismatic, arrogant computer geek who sold out humanity unbeknown to him as he fell in lust with a Cylon agent (remember in this series some look like humans and this one is SEXY...)
Apollo, son of Adama no longer has a good relationship with his father but a rather uneasy and sometimes confrontational one. This adds to the realism unlike the squeaky clean version in the original series. Starbuck is less cleancut in this series and as it is played by a female actor we can only describe her behaviour as one of ladette.
We also have two (yes you read it right) Leuatenant Boomers. Again this character has changed to a woman. They are both Cylon clones but we have one that stays on Caprica in a subplot of survival against invading forces, only for this Boomer to know that she is a cylon with a mission objective of becoming pregnant by her "companion" who stayed behind to save Dr Baltar. The second Boomer meanwhile is back on Galactica causing acts of sabotage unbeknown to her.
Throughout the series questions and subplots form about the prophecy of the fleet finding Earth (and this started as a lie in order to boost morale), history repeating itself, the creation of new political structures, the stealing and reverse engineering of cylon technology and finally finding the world of Kobold where humanity originated from.
The final episode, I must confess, is a shocker and leaves a great of suspense for the next series.
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Production Year: 2007 - Science Fiction - Director: Francis Lawrence - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring: Alice Braga, Charlie Tahan, Dash Mihok, Will Smith, Salli Richardson, Willow Smith
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