New Battlestar Galactica - Worth a Series?

rwxJava asks: "Ok, so it finally aired! IMHO it was pretty good. The special effects were great (no major laws of physics were broken except maybe FTL travel), the characters, while drastically different from the original, were believable! After about an hour or so, I stopped trying to compare the mini-series with the original. My only complaint has to be the amount of commercials that Scf-Fi put in. I was able to put up a Christmas Tree during one commercial break. Guess the network needs to cash in on such a hyped up event! By the end, I was left wanting more! Anyone else think it is worthy of conversion to a series?" Now that you've have had a time to watch the entire 4-hour epic (does 4 hours really make a "mini-series"?), do you think your earlier comments were on target?

Comments

It's OK.

[Skeld]

Better a bunch of the rest of the crap sci fi out there. The space ships look pretty good.

I'm kind of disappointed that the robot guys (cylons?) aren't at all robotic, even at the microscopic level (according to the show).

Also, space flight doesn't work like that... but every other series I've seen has portrayed space flight as far too similar to atmospheric flight, so I guess I shouldn't bother complaining. I don't like the president woman, either.

Final verdict: yeah, make more, I'll watch it.
-Skeld

quicker bulletpoint review

[Saeger]

Allow me to summarize your review and add my own points:

• The story was great.
• The characters had more than 2 dimensions.
• The Tits & Assification of the remake was just a little over the top.
• Physics wasn't violated for the sake of morons expecting StarWars.
• Kinetic weapons! (instead of your standard lightspeed lasers... that MISS all the time!)
• Sound in space was only a dull roar (for our benefit).
• Commercials? What commercials?

Definitely worth a series, IMO.

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Re:What about "why do the cylons want to kill us"?

[dR.fuZZo]

You're right, they didn't deal with this very directly, but there were two reasons presented.

At the end, one of the Cylons says that the humans will surely strike back at them and attempt to destroy them, for that is their way. So, it's a, uhm, pre-emptive defensive strike, if you will. (Sound familiar?)

Also, at least a couple times it's hinted at by the Cylons that their motivation might be, somehow... religious, as weird as that seems. I can't remember the exact lines, but I swear that this idea was there.