7/26/2004

Quick DVD Review: Battlestar Galactica: Complete Epic Series

(7/10) Wow, started watching this a few months ago. Finally done. It's always hard to give a rating on a series you used to watch as a kid. It rarely meets all your expectations. It's never quite how you remember it. I guess alot of things are that way if you really think about it. I still would recommend this series to die hard sci-fi fans because it had alot of cool classic sci-fi lore. The Star Wars influence is undeniable. The problem is that it was done on a TV budget and some scripts were rushed. The series got better as it went. Too bad it wasn't given a few more years. Think about it, had Paramount pulled the plug after season one of Star Trek: Next Genereration, we'd be looking at a very poor Trek legacy. Galactica explored some cool ideas and themes: where man comes from, what do you do when you are stranded in outer space? (heyyy, didn't Star Trek: Voyager recycle the idea??), etc. Oh, and I still say that Cylons are some of the coolest villains ever created.

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