Battlestar Galactica Complete Original Series Blu Ray Review

Introduction

I did finally go effectually to watching the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica late final yr, afterward some ten years of procrastinating, and waffling. My primary excuse was that it was not My Battlestar, non the show that I grew upward with and remembered most fondly. That Battlestar Galactica was a lot more fun, made in a more innocent time, and pitched every bit a Television set rival to the Star Wars phenomenon. When kickoff circulate, it was 1 of the biggest hits of the year, and should have gone on to even bigger and better things, simply it was the moving-picture show level budget, at the time some $1 meg per episode that got information technology cancelled after just i flavor, never to be seen again, except for an abortive endeavour at a lower upkeep serial a couple of years later on. It certainly begs the question just why I hadn't bought Battlestar Galactica upward to now on DVD.

I tin can procrastinate for my country, and this time I was faced with a UK release that was stripped of extras in comparison to the US release, and a The states release that never brutal to a comfy enough price for me to import. Five years of that, so a Blu-ray ten disc collection was released in Germany, by which time I had seen the Hd light, and waited for the German release to run across my monetary requirements. While I was waiting, this UK release happened, and at a price that finally ceased my stalling. So it's a nine-disc release as opposed to 10 (information technology ditches a 2003 Galacticon convention disc that was exclusive to the German language set up), but information technology has all of the episodes, and all of the extras excluding the German language stuff. It likewise has all ten episodes of Galactica 1980. Every silver lining has a deject I judge. And for the purposes of this review, I'm actually getting the chore of watching this short-lived sequel out of the style first. I know that with 1 exception, I won't exist watching it twice.

Before this title was released in the UK, I did consider procrastinating some more and waiting to run into what the inevitable US release would be like. It was somewhen announced concluding calendar month, and it turns out that Universal U.s. aren't as kind to US customers as Universal UK. They are going to have two editions; the Re-mastered Collection is the cheap 9-disc drove, which will have all the episodes cropped to fit modernistic widescreen TVs. The expensive definitive collection is an xviii-disc matter, which includes the widescreen discs, and these original aspect ratio discs. United states of america fans are already looking to see if this UK release is Region free. Information technology's worth noting that the usual Region info is printed nowhere on the packaging or the discs.

The Great britain release of Battlestar Galactica comes in two Amaray style cases held in a Cylon Head artwork, menu slipcover. The half-dozen discs of Battlestar Galactica are in a fat Amaray, four discs, 2 either side of two hinged panels, with 1 disc on each inner face of the case. The iii discs of Galactica 1980 are in a normal Blu-ray Amaray, one on the back inner confront of the case, and 2 discs, one either side of a primal hinged panel.

Introduction: Battlestar Galactica

"There are those who believe that life here began out in that location, far beyond the universe... with tribes of humans... who may take been the forefathers of the Egyptians... or the Toltecs... or the Mayans. Some believe there may yet be brothers of man... who fifty-fifty now fight to survive - somewhere beyond the heavens!"

Sends a shiver down the spine doesn't it? Erich von Daniken was a big thing back in the seventies with his 'ancient astronauts' theories, and Battlestar Galactica tapped correct into that fervour for mysticism and mystery, and the idea that at that place is more to humanity and human being history than we meet on the surface, than we're taught in history books. Once you constitute a tantalising premise like that, you lot have to wonder what leaps of the imagination the show will evangelize. Battlestar Galactica certainly got off to the correct kickoff.

7000 yahrens (years) of human history have been marred by the recent, millennium long war with the auto Cylons, simply all that is coming to an finish, as the twelve colonies of man celebrate the armistice and peace treaty brought to them past Count Baltar. As the armada gathers to see the Cylon dignitaries, and the Quorum of Twelve led by President Adar congratulate themselves on their wisdom and success, only Adama, representative of Caprica and commander of the Battlestar Galactica sounds a voice of caution. In the finish even Adama is swayed past his friend Adar and the prospect of peace.

It's a vacillation that the human race will come to regret, as Baltar is a traitor, and has colluded with the Cylons for personal power and gain. The fleet is heading into an ambush, and the colonies are left broad open for attack. Only the sacrifice of one of his sons gives Adama enough time to react, but in the end, merely the Battlestar Galactica survives, and from the ruins of the colonies, a rag-tag fleet of a few hundred ships gathers in space. But there is withal promise, for legends tell of a thirteenth colony, a distant beacon in a far off galaxy where another tribe of humans dwell. For the survivors of the twelve colonies this is their last hope, this planet called World, simply the Cylons are adamant to finish what they have started.

The episodes of Battlestar Galactica are presented across half-dozen discs in this drove, forth with extra features, with the opening 3 part story, and one of the subsequent two part stories edited into feature length episodes.

Disc one
ane-3. Saga of a Star Globe
iv. Lost Planet of the Gods
5. Lost Planet of the Gods, Office 2

Disc ii
6. The Lost Warrior
7. The Long Patrol
8. The Gun on Water ice Planet Nada
nine. The Gun on Water ice Planet Zero, Part two

Disc 3
10. The Magnificent Warriors
eleven. The Young Lords
12. The Living Legend
thirteen. The Living Legend, Role two

Disc 4
xiv. Fire in Space
fifteen. War of the Gods
16. War of the Gods, Part ii
17. The Man With 9 Lives

Disc 5
18. Murder on the Rising Star
19 & xx. Greetings From Earth
21. Baltar's Escape

Disc half-dozen
22. Experiment in Terra
23. Take the Celestra
24. The Hand of God

Pic: Battlestar Galactica

Battlestar Galactica gets a 4:3 pillarboxed presentation on these Blu-ray discs, and the image is uncommonly good in Hard disk, the limitations of television product notwithstanding. That said, Battlestar Galactica's episodes were reputedly approaching at a million dollars a pop back in 1978, so y'all do see a hell of a lot of production value on screen, the sets, the props, the special effects and costumes all look improvident. But the time isn't ever there to go the lighting spot on, to get the best possible accept, and sometimes you do go detail lost in contrast, simply by and large, the transfer from pic comes out brilliantly. This does indeed look like a picture show on Blu-ray, rich in item and color, offer more than than you volition have seen earlier. Print harm is mostly absent, the episodes look as if they were shot yesterday, and the colours and detail levels are fantastic. The only niggles y'all might have would be the matte lines on effects shots more visible than ever, the constant utilise of stock footage in spaceship shots, and odd moments of stock footage from other productions such equally in Fire in Space, which is from an anamorphic source, and squeezed into the iv:3 ratio.

Sound: Battlestar Galactica

You have the option of DTS-Hd MA five.1 Surroundings English, and DTS 2.0 Stereo Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, with subtitles in those languages plus Japanese, Danish, Dutch, Norwegian, Finnish, and Swedish. The surround actually does impress for the opening characteristic length triple episode, with the activeness and the music well presented, but for the rest of the series, the audio remains by and large glued to the front end soundstage. It'southward all skillful though, those memorable Cylon vocoder effects, the activeness, music and ambience, while the dialogue is clear throughout. Battlestar Galactica does suffer from loose ADR, and it appears that despite the considerable studio footage, a lot of the dialogue was looped in post, and it does tell.

Extras: Battlestar Galactica

Insert the discs, and you lot become 12 language options before a couple of logos and disclaimer screens. The discs kick up to a static-ish carte screen populated by icons, not text, although the extras (denoted by an asterisk, open some text options).

Disc 1 offers an sound commentary on episodes one-three from actors Herbert Jefferson Jr. (Boomer), Richard Hatch (Apollo), and Dirk Bridegroom (Starbuck). This is taken from the 2003 Usa DVD release of the serial (the commentary was left out of the UK DVD release), and it is initially interesting to heed to. Simply it chop-chop becomes an indulgence in nostalgia, a conversation betwixt 3 friends, and it'southward easy for the viewer to experience left out, especially when they talk over each other, or fail to complete a line of thought. What was the Mark Hamill story?

In that location are deleted scenes for many of the episodes, split across the appropriate discs. I say deleted, but they are a combination of alternate takes, rehearsal footage, deleted scenes and bloopers. They are presented in four:3 480i SD, and in full run to iii.28:36

The remainder of the extras are all on disc 6, and are taken from the 2003 DVD release of the serial, and understandably presented in 480i SD format.

Remembering Battlestar Galactica begins with a few more bloopers, but really is a documentary featuring the cast and crew who are interviewed about the series, and there'south a whole lot of nostalgia. This lasts 44:59.

Glen A. Larson on the Creation of Battlestar Galactica talks for 5:48 on the spiritual and mystical underpinnings of the bear witness.

Stu Phillips: Composing the Score lasts v:03 and offers a brief insight into the difficulties of composing to a Tv set broadcast schedule.

The Cylons (4:50) looks at the practicalities of making the robots come alive on screen, and the problems too.

Daggit lasts 5:12 and the cast and coiffure reminisce about the chimp in the dog suit.

It'southward a little disappointing that the actress features presented here are all taken from the 2003 DVD release, and there has been zilch new put to disc for the Blu-ray. I would judge that this release happened a little too quickly for some sort of tribute to Glen A. Larson to be added, who passed away last November, less than two weeks earlier this Blu-ray came out. Hopefully the U.s.a. release in a couple of months will remedy that.

Conclusion: Battlestar Galactica

Battlestar Galactica has aged surprisingly well, and I detect that I enjoy and appreciate information technology only as much now equally I did when I beginning watched it. However, I have to admit that when I first watched the show equally a kid, I could fifty-fifty so recognise those aspects of the show that I found trite, and even a piffling cheesy. There's no way that the Daggit or the token kid could always be seen every bit anything other than gimmicks to augment the target audience. But generally, the prove nonetheless stands upward well today. Y'all might have to take some time to dismiss the superior remake from the heed, and retrieve that the original Battlestar Galactica was an action gamble show, the tv set equivalent of Star Wars, meant to appeal to a wide family audition, and equally such, it was designed to be fun and entertaining, non realistic and thought provoking. Having said that, information technology still managed to tell some engaging stories, and offering some classic sci-fi allegory to boot.

This Blu-ray release of the show gives Battlestar Galactica a whole new lease of life, as you can at present see the theatrical quality production values in terms of its production and costume design, and even the space furnishings sequences, while beholden to the upkeep savings of stock footage, still offer quality way across what any other show could manage at the time. Battlestar Galactica from 1978 looks better than anything Star Trek: The Next Generation could manage 10 years later on (although that inverse once CGI became more widespread). Battlestar Galactica looks and sounds fantastic in high definition, certainly amend than whatsoever of my previous viewings of the prove.

The show isn't perfect though, and information technology does endure, perchance a little more than than most, from showtime season jitters, which is fabricated all the more tragic since in that location'southward no second season of course. A lot of shows struggle to discover their identity while bedding in, and it's merely in subsequent seasons that they develop those aspects that people observe unique, and indeed signatures of the show. Battlestar Galactica had the added problem of not beingness shown in production society, so a couple of those early episodes don't make that much sense in terms of continuity. They now announced to leave their home galaxy twice, venture forth into unexplored territory on more one occasion, simply to notice remnants of Colonial expansion and people who are aware of them, making it less unexplored as it is forgotten. It's only in the latter half of the series that the chronology, the back-story, and what we would now phone call the series bible, begins to observe consistency.

Incidentally, ane of the things that mark this show as unlike from its namesake is the sense of fun and ease of the characters, who don't exactly carry similar the shell-shocked survivors of a virtually extermination. Information technology probably doesn't excuse it, but in this Battlestar universe, humans are everywhere. The twelve colonies may have been wiped out, merely the Galactican fleet finds more humans, survivors, colonies, and worlds wherever they venture, so there'southward never the ominous threat of imminent extinction hanging over the survivors.

If it were just down to the first five episodes, (the original plan was for Battlestar Galactica to be a regular mini-series, before a total on series was commissioned) then I'd give it a 10/10 form. The commencement of the show was spectacular and inspiring. The showtime three parts were shown on i night every bit a Television set film, which is how it's presented on these discs, and it tells the story of the Cylon attack, the betrayal by Baltar, and the coming together of the survivors, the distant hope of planet Earth. While it begins with the devastation of the colonies and what seems to be an ultimate loss, it goes out on a positive note with the adventure on Carillon, where the fleet goes to furnish its supplies, discovers the Ovions, and nigh gets trapped, before managing to give the Cylons a encarmine nose and then making their escape.

The Lost Planet of the Gods 2-part story that followed probably was meant to be later in the circulate run, but whereas the opener dealt with the action and sci-fi of the prove, this one explored the mythology and back-story of the Battlestar universe. Where initially Adama dangled the carrot of Earth as a hope to agree the fleet together, this episode reveals that Earth is more than merely a myth, as they find the ancient human home-world of Kobol, and discover the clues that point out the direction the thirteenth tribe took. Over again this is storytelling that engages and gets the viewer interested in what the show is trying to exercise, and makes you want to see what will happen side by side.

Alas what happens next is that sense of a show looking for an identity, and like so many shows of that era, information technology does so by adapting that which has come up before for its episodes. Then frequently in the heart of the run, I wound up wondering merely where I'd seen that film before. The Lost Warrior is a remake of Shane, with Apollo crash-landing on a farming planet, one terrorised by a greedy landowner with an amnesiac gun-slinging Cylon at his command. Apollo gets to be the reluctant gunfighter here, refusing to fight, even though a immature boy idolises the stranded warrior, until he has no choice but to put on his blaster and stand upwardly to the cybernetic corking.

The Gun on Water ice Planet Zip two part story manages to cross The Dirty Dozen, The Guns of Navarone, Ice Station Zebra, and even throws in a Captain Nemo blazon grapheme (and Britt Ekland) as the Galactica finds a Expiry Star type gun on a planetoid in its path, and the universe is also small for the fleet to go around. It still manages to entertain though, with some interesting characters and a overnice bit of arctic action. The Magnificent Warriors speaks for itself, considering at that place are seven on the shuttle that goes looking for new seed stock on a farming planet terrorised by local aliens. The Young Lords is another like story to the latter and The Lost Warrior in that this time it's Starbuck who crashes, and helps the locals defeat a Cylon menace.

It's around episode 12 that Battlestar Galactica begins to find its identity, with The Living Legend two part story that introduced Commander Cain of the Pegasus, a Patton like grapheme who'd much rather kick Cylon butt than abscond with the survivors. This is a fan favourite story, but I have to acknowledge that I'd only seen Lloyd Bridges to this point in Zucker comedy spoofs, and I could never accept him seriously as a straight actor. I always look him to drop a zany one-liner, but he never does as Cain. We accept time for one more picture show remake as the Towering Inferno becomes Fire in Infinite, but the ii part story War of the Gods adds another layer of mythology to the prove, introducing the demonic Count Iblis, suavely played by the phonation of Imperious Leader, Patrick MacNee, and also the Ship of Lights, peradventure transcended humans, mayhap angels, perhaps the gods themselves, although this Battlestar's human society is monotheistic.

A couple of entertaining solo episodes ensue before what is for me Battlestar Galactica's high point, an indication of the promise the show had. It'due south the 4 episode stretch from Greetings From Earth to Experiment in Terra which I ever bask, despite the Cylon threat having been left behind at this point. It looks as if the Galactica might accept found Earth when they discover Terra and its system of moons, but they also discover a society separate in ii and on the verge of war. Terra may be more advanced than Earth, simply the allegory is obvious, with its Eastern Brotherhood evidently continuing in for the Soviet Union, versus their equivalent of the The states and the Galactica forced to interfere as the two sides head towards mutual destruction.

The penultimate episode is an interesting one, ane that'southward well-nigh similar in content to the re-imagined show, depicting dissent and disaffection in the fleet, where information technology looks like ane transport commander in the fleet is behaving like a martinet, and treating his crew as trivial more than than indentured servants. Unsurprisingly, a mutiny results. Of course you can't stay away from the Cylon menace for long, and the chrome plated adversaries return for the flavour finale, what would turn out to be the end of the series. Although the show does leave on a tantalising head rush of a promise of afar Earth, with perhaps the well-nigh iconic television image of the 20th Century.

It's the characters of Battlestar Galactica that still stand out today, larger than life and iconic. Adama as the redoubtable armada commander, the Han Solo-esque ladies man in Starbuck, which ought to take made Apollo the Luke Skywalker character, just he managed to exist upright and heroic while likewise displaying a tender warm-hearted side as well, the i man in the armada who could stand up up to his father. In all other occasions Adama was correct and the civilian regime incorrect. While the evidence revolved around these three characters, the supporting cast was potent and made an impression in their own rights, Tigh, Boomer, Cassiopeia, Athena, Sheba, Boxey, and even the Daggit. You can't go away from Galactica without discussing the villains, and there was an embarrassment of riches fifty-fifty there, the chrome dome Cylons with their vocoder voices definitely outlasting the television series in terms of stature (although how much of that was downwardly to the A-Team opening credits is another matter). You also take the ever shrouded Imperious Leader, and the IL serial droids, while the second role of The Living Legend hinted at a circuitous Cylon society. That'south earlier you get to Baltar, who by modernistic standards seems weak, but for late seventies tv was a great pantomime villain, confident, scheming, duplicitous, and apt to exist stumped by unexpected setbacks, and whose motivations never really made sense. John Colicos somehow made the graphic symbol smoothen and manifest far beyond the daft writing that went into Baltar.

If you have seen nu-BSG, then you might be surprised at just how much of this series is echoed in the re-imagining. Events in this show, even whole episodes inspire, certainly season 1 of nu-BSG, although it takes things a lot more seriously than the original series always did. While a lot of Battlestar Galactica was inspired past classic Hollywood movies, what I did detect surprising is the odd episode of Battlestar Galactica that would serve to inspire in turn. The Long Patrol features Starbuck at the controls of an experimental recon fighter, one with a talking, and smart computer, one who can fly ameliorate than he can. Have a wait at the lights that flash whenever the computer talks... A couple of years later Glen A. Larson would produce Knight Passenger. Then there's Experiment in Terra, where Apollo is snared by the Ship of Lights again, who ask his aid in preventing a war on Terra. They practice this by 'leaping' him into a Terran's life, where anybody else sees him as Charlie Watts, not Apollo, and where a non-corporeal 'angel' named John, that but he can encounter, advises him on what he has to fix to avoid the war. Not 10 years later, Donald P. Bellisario would make Quantum Leap...

Battlestar Galactica looks great on Blu-ray, as adept as you might wait classic television to look, and the evidence has certainly anile well, although y'all might accept to run across it halfway, and shift your mindset back a couple of decades. Nu-Battlestar Galactica is the superior show when it comes to storytelling and a consistent direction, but it never would accept existed without this show, and the original Battlestar Galactica never really had the chance it deserved. Of all the one-season wonders I have in my dwelling house video collection, this show had the most promise. It leaves you with a lingering wonderment at what could take been. Of course what shouldn't have been was Galactica 1980, simply that'south a story for the next paragraph.

8/ten

Introduction: Galactica 1980

And then you lot have 1 of the biggest hits on television, but at a bank-busting cost that makes the suits abolish it at the first opportunity. You've generated an audience that love the testify, you've got a cupboard total of expensive special furnishings and model footage that didn't come across nearly plenty use, you've got these costumes and sets, and a story idea that is smart, entertaining, and has enough of life left in it. It's time to compensate that investment. Thus Galactica 1980 was born, with a significantly lower budget fabricated possible by having the Galacticans observe modern 24-hour interval World. When your spacemen are wandering the streets of downtown USA, then the bean-counters are going to be happy. Unfortunately, Galactica 1980 loses more than only its budget for its episodes.

After several decades traversing the wilderness of infinite, believing that they had eluded Cylon pursuit, the Galactica and its rag-tag fleet of survivors from the twelve colonies have finally discovered Earth, but to their shock, they learn that Earth is non ready to receive them, permit solitary help them in their battle against the Cylons. They find that their cousins are a primitive, fractious race, liable to react aggressively to an 'alien' meet. Advised by wunderkind Doctor Zee, Adama decides to send small infiltration units to exam the lay of the land, learn how this strange primitive society works. To a place called The United States, he sends his grandson Boxey, now an experienced warrior named Troy, and his wingman Dillon, but the two Galacticans aren't ready for the culture disharmonism, while in the fleet, some aren't so willing to accept a furtive approach to Earth afterwards such a long exodus.

Ten episodes of Galactica 1980 are presented on iii discs.

Disc ane
1. Galactica Discovers Earth: Part 1
2. Galactica Discovers Earth: Part 2
3. Galactica Discovers Earth: Role 3

Disc 2
four. The Super Scouts
5. The Super Scouts, Part II
vi. Spaceball
7. The Dark the Cylons Landed

Disc iii
8. The Night the Cylons Landed, Part II
9. Space Croppers
ten. The Render of Starbuck

Picture: Galactica 1980

Just like Battlestar Galactica, Galactica 1980 gets a 4:3 pillarboxed transfer at 1080p resolution. At first glance it looks great, the loftier definition image offering far greater item than ever before from the pic source, rendering the testify with greater clarity and a richness and vibrancy of color. That said, the epitome quality is let down a trivial by the status of the source fabric, and while some episodes await pristine, some take suffered the indignities of historic period to a greater caste, with signs of impress impairment, scratches and dirt, fading of colours, and in i of the Super Scouts episodes, a distinct staining on the print in one scene. It also seems as if these episodes apply the title card from Battlestar Galactica in the credits, non Galactica 1980.

Sound: Galactica 1980

Ignore what'south written on the box. Galactica 1980 comes with a uncomplicated DTS-Hard disk drive MA 2.0 English language rail, which given the lack of separation I assume merely reverberate the original mono broadcasts. Y'all also have the choice of DTS 2.0 Latin Spanish, Catalan Spanish, French, Italian, and Portuguese, with subtitles in these languages and Japanese, Danish, Dutch, Norwegian, Finnish, and Swedish, the same language options you lot get when you starting time insert the discs. The dialogue is articulate throughout, and if you need them the subtitles are there. There'south no trouble with dropouts or distortion. Most of the music cues are re-used from the 1978 serial, although the disco-fied version of the theme music when the bikes take to the skies quickly gets old.

Extras: Galactica 1980

Insert the discs, and you get 12 language options earlier a couple of logos and disclaimer screens. The discs kick up to a static-ish menu screen populated by icons, not text, which makes the language choice pretty moot. There are no extra features with Galactica 1980.

Conclusion: Galactica 1980

Y'all might wonder what went wrong with Galactica 1980, but the real question is did anything go correct for this misfire of a prove? For 9 out of its 10 episodes, it's an unmitigated railroad train wreck, and its myriad flaws even manage to taint the ane decent episode in its run. The existent problem with the testify isn't its lack of upkeep, it's that right from the beginning, it'south targeted at children instead of the broad audition of its predecessor. Jettisoned is the premise of the original, gone is the malaise and depth of the writing, the complexity of the characters, the richness of the universe, and what'south left is kiddie friendly fare, lubricated past depression-rent culture-clash comedy equally the space aliens try to fathom the trivialities of modern day Earth, where every problem is solved by Galactican engineering science, helpfully signalled past a magical sound result.

The master driver of these stories is wunderkind Dr. Zee, and the previously strong leader of the fleet, Commander Adama is reduced to a litany of "Gee, Dr Zee. What do we do now, by golly?" As for the two chief characters providing the action and bulldoze to the show, the replacement Starbuck and Apollo, they're a character and charisma free zone. Recollect the show The Dukes of Hazzard? They had a pay dispute with the cast ane year and hired a new pair of cousins for the General Lee. Troy and Dillon are Coy and Vance.

The matter is that there were a couple of good ideas in the testify, and if they hadn't been hampered by the child-friendly direction, and the main cast, it might just have worked. They merely didn't take the backbone of their convictions to carry the premise through, and that'south apparent from the beginning episode. The Galacticans observe Globe, larn that it is primitive, and decide to accelerate Earth's technological development by benevolently and secretly interfering in societies. This would have been an interesting idea, aliens 'helping' Earth in secret, walking the tightrope of politics and the Common cold War, trying to keep their presence hidden. It would have fabricated for an interesting drama. But they gave up on that idea before the stop of the first episode when they brought in Xaviar and his time travel shenanigans. The first episode isn't even over and the show has a new premise, with Troy and Dillon leaping through time, putting right what Xaviar once put wrong (hmm, sounds familiar). The end of the two part story in episodes 2 and 3 promises more in the way of time travel from our bland heroes, but someone did the numbers in the studio establish it was expensive to make, and that thought was unceremoniously and immediately ditched.

Premise three introduced the Space Scouts, the kiddie friendly kiddie quotient, and all of a sudden the Galacticans are retconned as having superpowers on Earth. Shame that Troy and Dillon didn't use these abilities to leave of all those scrapes in the kickoff three episodes. I guess they forgot that they could bound higher than a tall tree. This is the death knell for the series, the annoying kids with their annoying song, but in that location is nonetheless that half-flavour of episodes to fill up, so the show keeps going on momentum. Then someone remembers that people really watched Battlestar Galactica for the Cylons, the bad guys were the interesting fleck. Then we accept a humanoid Cylon and a chrome toaster walking the streets of Manhattan for the elapsing. I must acknowledge that the Vhmmm Vhmmm cliff-hanger managed to deliver a few chills, as the ominous effigy of a Centurion made his presence felt, just the humanoid Cylons were a daft idea hither, the possibilities of infiltration not even considered, and certainly not in the mode the reboot managed it. It was when the Centurion was laid low by a microwave oven, while Troy and Dillon danced with Scooby Doo... That'south premise 4 wasted.

When all else fails, get dorsum to the original bandage, and episode ten is the one decent story that Galactica fourscore managed, Starbuck returns and in ane episode delivers more personality, charisma, wit, and charm than all of the other characters managed in ix episodes, and for most of that story, he's stranded lone on a planet, until he reactivates a Cylon for visitor. It's a tale of Robinson Starbuck and Cylon Friday, and it would have been almost as proficient as anything in the original series, were it not for the framing device of Dr. Zee recounting the tale equally his dream and request Adama, "Is Starbuck my daddy?"

I'thousand glad I watched this first, as I wouldn't desire my concluding memory of this collection to exist Galactica 1980. It'due south worse than I retrieve it to exist, simply then again I last watched it when I was in the target audience, and even and so I thought it was bad, although I thought the flying bikes were cool. Now not fifty-fifty that.

iii/ten for The Render of Starbuck.

In Summary

I'm non going to average the scores as I usually do. Later all, I bought this collection for Battlestar Galactica. Galactica 1980 is just the unsightly wart that comes with it, and y'all are under no obligation to actually sentinel it. The original series is still a whole lot of fun, and it looks fabled in high definition, 1 show that definitely shows the benefit of the Hard disk upgrade. Confidentially, I remember it looks better that the original Star Trek Blu-rays, although that'south probably through lack of tinkering with the image. If there is a thwarting, it's that in terms of extras, it's really just the 2003 DVD release re-packaged. Nosotros've had the whole nu-BSG phenomenon in the acting, and some sort of crossover featurette looking at the two shows side-by side would have been appreciated to prove just how much the new show was inspired by the erstwhile. But if y'all accept the DVDs, I would make a indicate of double-dipping the Blu-rays. Y'all won't exist disappointed.

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