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

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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