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January 15, 2005
"Battlestar Galactica" - the new series
The new Battlestar Galactica premiered last night on the SciFi channel. This is Ron Moore's "reimagining" of the original 1970s television series. The premise is that there are only 47,000 civilians on a handful of spaceships and one aging military spaceship (the Battlestar Galactica) that survived a Cylon attack on the homeworld and colonies. These were the people already in space during the attack, basically.
They can't go home because home is no longer there. I think they are trying to get back to this place called "Earth" from their stories but I may be getting that confused with the original story. They are flying through space with a lack of supplies, constant threat of attack, and no sense of how long it will take to get where they are going. During the first five days after the attack, the caravan of ships was found by the cylons every 33 minutes. They had to "jump" to a new sector 238 times in a row. Every 33 minutes. We start off the new series with everyone really tired and extremely irritated.
It differs from the original series in the character development and type of stories. One of the plotlines concerns the new President and how she is adapting. She was Secretary of Education until everybody ahead of her in the line of succession died during the attack. There are people trying to find lost family members, an Admiral who was at the end of his career thrust into this new world with six carefully marked out shots of whisky left for the rest of his life, there is a scientist influenced by Cylons, and a sleeper Cylon agent on the Galactica.
It is shot with that whole handheld camera kind of thing which is odd for an sci-fi show but it ends up working.
I'm a geek. I'll keep watching it. What else do I have to do Fridays at 10:00?
SciFi Channel Galactica Website
Posted by chip at January 15, 2005 07:08 AM
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