Battlestar Galactica

S1: 6/10

S2: 4/10

I not just a reimagined remake of a campy 70's series but it revolutionised and reinvented sci fi television

So, even though this series is off the air now, there are some of us who are still discovering it for the first time. This includes me. I'm busy watching the series on Netflix where you can watch the first four seasons.



I'm on season two right now. Here are somethings that bug me about this series:



1) For a civilization to have developed the technology to create battleships like the Galactica, why on earth would people still be using paper??? I mean seriously, this makes NO SENSE. Even with a show like Star Trek, back in the sixties, you had reports that were approved and signed by Captain Kirk and they weren't reports made of paper but "iPad" like devices which the captain would review.



2) A cure for cancer. I'm sorry but a civilization as advanced as in technology as one that can create battleships and travel via warp speed, in my opinion, would have found the cure to cancer. It made no sense in the first season that the president would be dying from breast cancer. If anything, it should have been some other disease.



3) Pilots are PILOTS. And NOT Marines too! In today's military, you have NAVY, ARMY, MARINES and AIR FORCE. You don't see air force pilots fighting on land similar to what Marines do! Air force pilots fly planes! They don't act like Marines. So to watch Starbuck acting like a marine makes NO SENSE WHATSOEVER. She's a PILOT. And that is what she excels at. So for the writers to take such artistic license by having Starbuck act like a marine is ridiculous.



4) What is the source of oxygen on all of these battleships? Like Galactica, for instance? Is this ever explained? Where are the green plants?



That's just for starters. I have other complaints that frankly should have been addressed by the writers of this series.



Yes, this series does tackle many political issues. And I enjoy it. But there are some serious WTF situations written into this series that make no sense whatsoever.

This is just pure genius. Ignore the negative Nancies on this one, and listen to all the great comments, I can't add anything that has not already been said. If you have a chunk of your precious time to dedicate to a show that will take you on an emotional journey. With some of the finest acting, writing, plots, character development and production of any Science Fiction show ever. Then my friend, this is for you. Long live Galactica............

Battlestar Galactica Re-imagined is one of televisions best sci fi Epic series to ever be produced. I truly enjoyed watching this series from start to finish and I was blown away! The format of the show was engaging and made it easy to follow the stories. The characters were deeply developed over time and it was interesting to see all the growth as they endured trials and tribulations. The space scenes were amazing and very cool. On a grand scale this series seems to be produced with calculating sense, and every thing fell into place perfectly. I really enjoyed the themes which the show explored, giving insight into human nature and behavior. The Cylons were pretty Frakkin cool as well, and their sleek ships beautiful. The ending of the series was explosive and well written. I love how it all tied together and made sense out of everything, also tying the story in to our modern day world, which I love when a series like this can do that! I will definitely be watching this entire series in marathon from time to time because it is just that awesome!!!!!!!!!

I didn't take this show seriously when I knew nothing about it. Over the last couple of years I've started watching all of the "best show ever"'s that I could get my hands on. I noticed that Battlestar made it onto a lot of these kinds of lists on the internet, but I couldn't take a show from the sci-fi channel seriously. Until I watched it. Battlestar Galactica is one of the best shows that I have ever seen. The drama and suspense throughout the run of the show is some of the best that has been on the television shows that I have seen. Some of the characters are very likable and the acting is at times top of the line. There are weaker episodes that don't really drive the plot every now and then, but they are more than made up for by the better episodes. The show might have outstayed it's welcome and probably would have been better ending 10 episodes or so before it actually did, but the finale was a great (predictable, but great) piece of television in my opinion. Overall, a great show with a great cast and a strong emotional story.

I've been putting off writing this review for a long long time.





There are two truths to this story. One, the big and epic conclusion to one of the best shows ever shown on tv. By a long shot, the best series almost everyone failed to watch.





But then there is the finale itself. And it pains my heart to admit that... It was crap.





I'm talking about the last 4 minutes or so. It's not that it didn't have it's moments, the last flight of the president was beautiful. But then there's two annoying moments:





Nowhere in the mythology angels were mentioned.





And for god's sake, Deus ex machina? Really? It's so cliché it hurts.





God did it is NEVER a good ending, doesn't matter how you twist it.





My grade should be seen as 10 for the whole thing and 0 for the last minutes. That should average at 9.5.

i just joined so that i can tell people " this is a must have movies " its coming from a guy who also like Dexter, the OZ, the shield, 24, Rome, the wire, Lost, Supernatural, Heroes, Band of brothers...this is my 1st sci-fi series i ever had...


Good story line, fascinating, enough action & drama!


love the casting!


i am not a fans of these type of movie but now this totally changed my mind!


now i am busy reading reviews of all kind of different sci-fi series on the market.


i will probably start watching farscape...had read many glowing reviews about the show

I did not watch this show until it had ended. In fact, I had heard about it but never thought that it would be something that I could get into. Boy was I mistaken!





Almost by accident I started watching this show because it was recommended to me by Netflix of all things. On a lark I decided to give it a chance. And am I ever so happy that I did. Yes it is a sci-fi show but in many way it is more than that. It is storytelling of a high order. It is also a show that is cinematic in its scope and scale.





When the final scenes finished streaming, I found myself wanting more. I definitely will be catching up on Caprica and BSG: Blood and Sand to get a little more detail and to keep the ride going.





After streaming on my computer I purchased the BluRay set. I loved listening to the commentary and watching the deleted, scenes, etc. It added layers and texture to an already amazing story!

What can i say about this show, A show that startes with a war with humans against the cylons and eals with a lot of characters drama. These characters are really greatly written and so well done. But the stories arcs add great stuff to the show and one of the greatest sci-fi things that was on TV. everything is perfectly done and fits the world even the president and cancer stuff wich took me a hwile to like but just a great show to watch and if you havent watched it you really need to watch this show now.

Hrm. Loved the series overall, though some of the New Caprica stuff was rather pointless. The las part of the finale just generated an incredible sense of futility. Ok, *these* particular humans survived, but their culture, civilization, knowledge, etc., gone. Poof. There was utterly no point to them running to earth. Humans were already here, so the race survves regardless. They get rid of their tech, so humanity has a "clean slate", which is pretty illogical, actually, no, it's idiotic. They guaranteed that mankind will have no knowledge of the evils of making machines as slaves, yada yada, so they accomplish the exact opposite of their intention. "Going native" was selfish, stupid, and worst of all, made their entire struggle to keep human civilization alive, pointless. They may as well not have come to Earth at all, since there wera already humans here, and other than the fact they didn't have language yet, they seemed to be doing ok. I'll leave out the various angel/God/destiny drivel, since it ended up being mostly fluff, and portrays God as someone rather like a child using a magnifying glass on ants....over and over.

I used to love this show, but watching the last season was just dreadful. I was hoping that the story would return to something resembling the first season, but no... In the end it was a massive cop out. God solved everything.


Yeah right... In order to break the cycle of violence, let's do the following: destroy all our technology, make sure our immortal enemies still keep theirs, and lets live in caves for the next 150,000 years. Surely that's a massive improvement. There were so many things wrong with this ending I can't even begin to mention them all.... some of the other reviews might have tried, kudos to them. I just don't think my fingers can type that much. To be honest, I might not even be qualified to write a review, I gave up about halfway through this monstrosity of an episode and started fast forwarding through to the end. The only good thing about this episode is that they finally ended a show that was getting worse with every single episode. Now all I can do is hope that the planned prequels/sequels either don't come off the ground or are written by someone more qualified. A drunken monkey comes to mind...

In the end this series was silly, supernatural, sci-fi. Sufficient suspense to draw you in, as it did me, but like binge drinking ultimately leaves an aftertaste of bile.





I can tolerate the science-fantasy of Star Wars and similar when the story strongly draws upon the human struggle, but this series was just bent on TRYING to warp religious myth into science understanding. Worse than DS9's attempt, BSG tempts believer audiences with the idea that monotheism is superior to pantheism and is wholly compatible with critical thinking. Ethics and morals come from our humanness and do not need a supernatural origin.





The characters had their moments (sexy female cylons for one), special effects theirs (the FTL of Galactaca out of its falling attack for one), the plot lines and underlying themes simply fell short in the end....I guess this show is pretty much Sci-fi for Creationists as exemplified by the series finale. No real answers provided....just point at "God" (aka Adm. Adama) as the underlying reason for all. Add to that the new BSG series spoils my fine memories of the original BSG series. Still I generously give the series a 5, as I was able to stomach it in the end.

This new Battlestar Galactica started out in what I would say was a fantastic initial series. The setting was clearly never focused just on technology, with the attention to the Gaius Baltar character in series one being clearly on human vulnerabilities, and to me was gripping (the whole of series one I was say never dragged). Unfortunately the following series seemed to start losing their way, not keeping the same standard as the first series, for example, the episodes based on the new caprica seemed dull in comparison. However it was the way it ended which seemed the most disappointing, anyone who watched the behind the scenes 'The Last Frakkin Special' show should have noticed the comment 'forget the plot, it was about the characters'. This comment I think it telling, basically it looks like they had totally messed up the plot line (could be argued by the start of series 3), and instead of trying to rectify this in series four, instead they ended the whole thing by just focusing on some of the individuals (and even in this regard there was blatant holes, no real explanation around the Starbuck character for example). As it ended with so many unexplained plot holes (and a really a nonsensical ending in a whole host of ways), I can only presume that the director was under great pressure from the TV station just to wrap things up (as they were canning the show) and took the easiest way out. From what began with a truly great start, unfortunately it has had a very disappointing ending, if anyone was to ask in future, I could honestly only recommend this new Battlestar Galactica overall as watchable, rather than good or great (which it could have been).

An episode about how we achieve humanity, and how we often go wrong. The direction, writing and acting is flawless. I was in tears on four occasions, feeling the yearning of all the characters to be better than they are, stumbling and blind, seeking the sun.





The agonizing confession of Baltar, the redemption of Roslin, the courage of Athena, the pain of Helo, the resolution of D'Anna, the steadfastness of Adama, and the loss of immortality.





This is truly the finest episode of an extraordinary TV series.





Don't worry if it's been a while, go back and watch this episode, then watch it again.

Spoilers people!!























I mean it. Stop reading now if you've ever even thought of watching this show. Go watch it, you won't regret it.











Ok, lets get this out of the way - A wizard did it. While I found it disappointing that they specified this, I still can't hate the show for doing it. If you didn't realise they might do this coming into the last episode, then you really weren't paying attention.





Personally I prefer shows to let the viewer make their own mind up about religion, intervention by a higher power doesn't have to equal God, but the writers defined it as that and that's their choice. In a way that's kind of a ballsy thing to do, as I'm sure they realize they'd alienate some fans this way.





Setting this aside, the show started ok, a relatively good little space opera, an improvement on the original. Nothing in the mini-series really spelled out just how good it would become and only a few glimpses in the first season (33s) really showed the full potential.





Once the Kobol arc kicks in though the show is full on until the end of the series. Yes the bad season 2 episodes are bad, but a few wobbles a season are allowed in any tv show when the writing, acting and effects are this good.





It never ceases to suprise, whether in the intelligent writing, story twists and for a 'non-HBO/Showtime/etc' show, just how far they are willing to push what you can get away with - not to put to fine a point on it - making it probably the first 'mature' SF show and I'm not talking about sex. In this respect it owes a debt of gratitude to many earlier SF TV shows, but instead of pushing forward the boundaries, it drags them all the way into the 21st Century.





I have the odd gripe about the series, but they're minuscule in comparison to just how good this show is. That's why it gets a 10.

In the grand fashion of taking an old TV series or movie and revitalizing it, this show found its start. From the impressive miniseries, the tumultuous episodes of season 1, the peace and tragedy on New Caprica, the elation over finding Earth, the devastation over finding Earth, to the timeless series finale, this was an amazing emotional roller coaster of a series.





One of the best aspects of Battlestar Galactica was that, unlike other popular scifi series, characters were never safe. In the 28 seasons of canon Star Trek, only 3 main characters died; Tasha Yar, Jadzia Dax and Trip Tucker. In the 4 seasons of Battlestar Galactica, at least a dozen major characters died. This kept the show fresh and unexpected.





Viewers found themselves emotionally vested in the characters. It was like we were sharing these people's tragic lives every week. This was a new breed of scifi, a bold new future for the genre.

This show is not just my favorate sci-fi show ever but it's my favorate show in general. This show I can't help but feel it was just made for me. It is just so perfect for me I can't find one thing wrong with it nor do I want to so you won't find me saying anything bad.





Yeah I saw the original 70's show it's derived and I like it but I don't really love it. This show I feel is a great example of a revival/remake done the right way but also just providing us one of the best final fronteer sci-fi's I've ever seen, the show is a Philp K. Dick like tale.





There are just lots of great things about the show, I love the CGI, effects and even the set pieces it all loods good. I really bought and believed in this final frounteer universe the show is set in and loved the designs of the ships and seeing how worn they looked giving an sense of time and age. Just seeing this shows what happens when you use those three elements the right way. The atmosphere was dark and moody, the battle sequences are great, it's true their a bit brief and there is some shakey cinamatography. But the shaky cinamatography I'll admit I'm not fond of this technique but in this show it's used the right way I feel gave that feeling of how realistic and intense the battles really are, plus it wasn't so shaky where I couldn't see who shot who I acutally could see it. And also the cinamatorgraphy gave the show and almost documentry feeling since most of it felt like or probably was shot with a digital camera, it really help give that feeling not just of how realistic things are but that your the other character that is in this universe and currently filming what is happening in in. This also helped with the atmosphere making it tense and suspenseful because you know something is happening but there isn't anything you can do about it.





However despite all of this what made the show really work were the characters and the development they all went though. All of them just feel papably realistic as if all of them could exist. I'll just say a few characters that are my favorates. Athena (Grace Park) she is just a great character let alone the actress I think is hot as hell as well as good. She is the most sympathtic and complex, she started off as a mere spy with a mission but then decided to defect because of her love for a human. And of course she has to struggle with gaining trust and living among the humans. Helo he's my second favorate. His character is somewhat of a peacekeeper, from his relationship with


Athena it has widened his view on the Cylons making him realize that not all of them are evil, and he does the best thoughout the show to make sense out of the madness and maintain some sense of fairness.





I really love the relationship both characters have in the show they have great chemestry I really bought them as best friends turned lovers, it's almost simlar to the romance story in two anime series "Gundam 08 MS Team" and "Macross" which both had a man and woman from different sides of the war falling in love with one another. The other thing I love about the relationship is there is a universal sensablity about it, it could be about two people of a different religon, one whom is handcaped, just any kind of relationship you can think of which always had to do about two people being different and are persecuted because of the simply fact they love one another. This made me route for both of them even more because what they feel for each other isn't wrong, to say love is wrong or even try to destroy it is a crime.





What I love is how at times your feelings about the characters can be mixed or even change which made them all the more realistic. At time what they do could put you at odds with them. Were also not sure of what to feel about the war since there is sort of a grey area, were not sure how the war was started and the Cylons motives are enigmatic. But it's also facnating how both the humans and cylons are struggling to put sense and meaning into their existance and what being human really means.





It gets at issues of falabilities, distrust, racism, redemption, ethical boundaries how much we are tempted to break them and the importance of maintaining them. As well as extensial phylosophical concepts on humanity and existance.





Battlestar Galatica takes you to the darkness of space and beyond.

The creators took a show from my childhood, and brought it up to date. They aged it appropriately to capture the kids, now adults, who loved the original. It was brilliant. It was edgy, it was dark. While watching it, I always felt cold. The ship was dark, damp, and musty. It's no wonder people longed for companionship. There were great twists and turns. Your loyalties were turned end over end. The writing, complete to the last episode, was superb.





I for one, have started collecting the DVDs. I will watch it again.

Battlestar Galactica


Battlestar Galactica is a reimaginning of the 1978 series of the same name. In a future, the humans live in 12 colonies. The humans created the Cylons, robotic beings, to make life easier. They rebelled and a war was held. An attack was done to the 12 colonies, and the humans joined a fleet of ships lead by Commander William Adama of Battlestar Galactica to the legendary 13nth colony: Earth.





It has been around a month since I started watching BSG, and Im already lovin it! Im on the beginning of seson 2, is going pretty cool. I havent seen the original series, and people say is better than the 2004 (this) one, I dont know but I would like to see it. Anyway, BSG 2004 is an amazing series!

Battlestar Galactica is one of the best written shows out there. It has highly believable characters portrayed amazingly by the shows actors that will have you loving all men; good and evil, and sympathizing with genocidal Cylon robots. The plot focuses on mortality, morality, and faith. It makes the characters; human and robot alike, to face hard truths about themselves and the rest of their species. From the series first episode '33', which will have you sitting on the edge of your seat to its last episode 'Daybreak', with its shocking and enlightening ending and revelations this series will have you entranced.





A recommended watch not only for Sci-Fi lovers but for everyone who loves high quality television.

i'm not a TV geek, or a scifi person. When i watched the show for the first time (it was Flesh and Bone epi) i didn't like it, or didn't understand what the hell is going on so i gave up. But then i've heard a lot of reviews -good ones- about it, so i decided to give it another try i searched for a good episode and chose the Farm & Home1, and i was AMAZED. the acting of Katee, Jamie, Grace was so outstanding. i just loved it and bought the whole 4 seasons at once and started watching. the characters: they're what make a show success or total crap. All of them delivered a fine act a very believable and likable acting, starting with the Admiral, the old man, loved every part of his dilemmas. Mary is just weirdly great. Starbuck, wow, where to begin?! Katee is my fav actress right now. And knowing that she and Helfer are friends is just great.


Bulter is a different story, he's good and insane but i didn't like his character that much, i mean they just should have thrown him off an airlock and get rid of him. Loved the little moment when Kara walks in on him with the imaginary Caprica in season1, the look on her face was so funny that i laughed till it hurt.





the writers did a fine work in the development of the story and characters, and gave them depth and personalities. it's just a great show, there are no words to describe it, it's just great. Till now i haven't seen any show that lift up to BSG's level. P.S. i watched TSCC just because it's about Robots. And i didn't regret it.

It just seems like this show will never end but this show does have a lot of action and I love a good action show. But the thing that annoys me the most is all of the clones in this show. And another thing this show has to much twists and turns that why I do not like this show. Maby someday I will work up the courage to start watching this show again when this show starts getting better. And I don't get the storyline for this show. The characters are alright but their are to many characters to keep track in this show.

I love everything about this show the plot, characters, scenes. There is not even one episode that I can call boring or unnecessary or foolish. The show connects everything very well, like passing from multi god religion and Greek mythology to one god religion. The concept of angels and creation. I am happy to say that the plot is written so wisely and intellectual for a TV show , and thanks to writers for that.


And a really superb ending for this show but I would be happy if a saw more scenes of Lee and Starbuck. This is one of the shows that I really miss to watch.

I watched it when it first aired many moons ago. I was hooked. Then the TV series started and I couldn't watch it for some reason. I just never bothered. Then I heard it was awesome. I knew it would be and so I netflixed it and watched every single season to catch up. I then watched the second half of the fourth season in 'real time' and I was so thrilled by every moment because every moment counted. BSG is one of the best TV shows ever created and if you like Sci-fi you will love it.

It's incredible thrilling for any watcher: fans of science fiction or not.


I'm a science fiction fan long before I watched this serie. But I have no words to tell how I feel after I watched it. Probably amazed because this is one of the best series I ever watched.


Battlestar galctica is the most real science fiction serie. And the story is a real piece of art. It's hard to describe it in any other way, because the story is so wonderfully written that the suspense, the emotion and the action feel almost real. Like you are right there in the middle of their fight for survival.


And the merit must be shared with the cast. They really do a very nice job.

I love Star Trek,I love Smallville, I love Aliens and just when I thought that there is nothing more that can match the thrill in sci-fi domain ,there it is Battlestar Galactica! I truly enjoyed it.


It's different, it's exciting, it's superbly directed and produced. The actors are so vivid, the visual style is fantastic, the music is inspiring, the plot is great, everything is just done right. One of the best, if not the best, SF series ever. I'll go even further and say that for me it's one of the best series on TV all around .


The story lines are just first class and the characters are first rate. I don't remember the original series (I wasn't born when it came out), but i did recently check it out, sorry but this newer up to date show is far better. Great acting and special effects.


The reason I love this show is because it has at its heart a human drama, it shows how real people might react if faced with this situation. It uses real life occurrences in order to make it real.

This show is all about gloom and doom, and how 50,000 people are trying to live on after their worlds are destroyed.





There are happy moments, because let's be honest who wants to watch a completely depressing show that just wants to make you slit your wrists? But the main story is about trying to move on when the rest of the world is destroyed. But the show moves us past that by making us want to know the characters, to know about the interaction and to know if they find a way to a new home. The writers of the show are fabulous they take us from the human side to the cylon side effortously. They make the stories and the characters come alive on the screen and make us want to cry when any of the main characters are hurt or die.





This show is about being main stream political issues to a head and making you think about why they are saying and doing these things. They also make you want to change why you think that something that has always been right, may not actually be right.





An awsome show with great characters that just draw you in. You should definatley check it out on dvd, because if you watch it on tv you will just get upset because you have to wait for the next episode.

I don't mean to be rude unlike y other reviews and I have reviewed this before with a positive light. But I was never in the age when this was first made and like every old show it was annoyingly bad in the end. I rewatched it and I liked the beginning until like before I mentioned little children with super powers makes me want to punch them. Now onto the newer series. THis series is great it distinguished itself from most remakes. Hot girls, hot robots, battle ship and realism witch we seem to love atm until Barny has a come back and its no longer a childrens tv show but a fight club for costume weirdos. I'm probably gonna get a bad review value for this but this is the after math just like the original series it had the same problem it worked well with itself until the last season. Maybe even jsut the last episdoe anyways its a msut see unless you hate scifi. Thde only reason the last episode dissapoints is it seems like a cop out since they were rushed after a semi cancellation. But a huge but since you are reading this it means you actually watch shows liek these. It is the only show I know to this date that has given webisdoes and extra movies during its actual airing(good ones not random heroes stuff). There is a reason why this has a giant fan base. PS there is a giant continuity issue with the last episode. If you can guess it msg me an I will tell you if your right :P

One of the best shows on tv going beyond the sci-fi genera. BSG mixed current politics, religion, and social commentary into what is normally a cut and dry entertainment genera. With in a few minutes of the original mini-series pilot. Anyone could see that the show had risen above it seventies original vision. One should be cautioned to see the shows as opposing visions and understand that given the time periods. The public had different wants and the world had a different world view with over thirty years apart between the two works. The current version of BSG gave us the politics and drama we as modern tv audiences expect but still managed to give us surprisingly great scifi space battles and special effects. One could very easily forget that the scifi channel was famous for bad writing and worse movie effects but as a credit to the network. They fully embraced the show putting their money behind this worthy vehicle and we the fans benefited from their dedication. The show also managed to take what is normally the boring character study and make it a joy to watch. Sex addicts, religious extremist, and dogmatic rule and regulation followers and their foibles were a joy to watch. Since it's inception I haven't found a show to match how great this one was. In terms of writing and enjoyable episodes very rarely was there a bad week in the world of Galactica.