![]() Even if you are not usually a sci-fi fan, Battlestar Galactica is first class drama and is to be recommended, featuring stories that could work equally well without fleets of spacecraft.īe careful buying this box set on eBay, it took me two attempts to get a genuine edition. This is no futuristic fantasy, the cast of the series may be from other worlds but they are without a doubt as human as you and I, and the parrallels between the Galactica universe and events in parts of our own world are clear. ![]() The writing is excellent, and thought-provoking to boot, with an excellent cast who were largely unknown before this Galactica, but all of whom deserve to be household names. Like any long-running show, you will find the odd dull episode here and there, but you have to watch them because every minute of the show is important to the ongoing story arc - thankfully, in 22 epsisodes of series 2, there are only a couple of slow segments. It's a show that deserves another chance even more than Star Trek did.From an explosive start, this series gets better and better. Hopefully, Galactica fans will one day get the last laugh if there is a successful revival with the original cast. ![]() What can't be forgiven is ABC's quick dismissal of this show and then insulting the intelligence of us all by bringing it back in a bastardized version known as "Galactica 1980". But it also attracted a larger audience in its one year on ABC than any Star Trek series ever has in syndication. And unlike Star Trek, there was a semblance of continuity and character development whereas the former was entirely self-contained from week to week with no development in the characters. The characters of Apollo (Richard Hatch), Starbuck (Dirk Benedict), Adama (Lorne Greene), Sheba (Anne Lockhart) and even the wicked Baltar (John Colicos) were fascinating and multi-dimensional. ![]() ![]() Unlike the Star Wars series, which increasingly came to be about FX at the expense of characters, BG's appeal has always lied in its characters. For me, "Galactica" continues to age well and is even better than it was when I first experienced it as a child in 1978. Indeed, considering how Lucas had "borrowed" from so many other genre stories of the past his lawsuit claiming Galactica stole from Star Wars was the biggest case of hypocrisy ever. Although a lot of people don't know this, based on what gets written by BG bashers in their histories of sci-fi TV, George Lucas's lawsuit against Universal was dismissed on all counts and found to be without merit. Only in the last five years or so has "Battlestar Galactica" begun to emerge from the unfair stigma that was attached to it for so many years as a "Star Wars ripoff". ![]()
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