Battlestar Galactica (2003 Miniseries)
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• Closed-captioned
• Color
• Dolby
• DVD-Video
• Subtitled
• Widescreen
• Miniseries
• NTSC
In Theaters : 08 December, 2003
DVD Release : 28 December, 2004 |
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Battlestar Galactica (2003 Miniseries) Customer Reviews
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It's sci-fi, Jim, but not as we know it., 2 Oct 2007
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Most people would be slightly weary of the idea of a new and re-invigorated version of the spectacle Science Fiction Drama series Battlestar Galactica (1978-1980) being up to the year in which the series became 'Galactica 1980', which lead to its thoroughly trashed downfall, was a bit of a surprise that a network had decided to re-fashion the show with a more updated and far more interesting story. Many fans would, should insist that this is a re-imagining not an intrinsic remake of a cheesy lovable, and to use a pun for a modern show, "That 70's Show". Many of the sci-fi fan-boys, and girls, were in need of a successful sci-fi drama series that had the ability to keep fresh interest and action, drama.
The legacy of this show happens to be the principal point, machines made by man, they evolved, rebelled, and so on and so forth.
People who claim through their noses that they never watch or read science fiction are missing some great work, be it rough, symbolic or even sardonic. One key point is it's not juvenile, asinine and cheesy sci-fi; it's adult allegory.
Battlestar Galactica is the best character drama, perhaps the only drama that daringly and boldly engages the big issues currently on TV. It's about the good, bad, and ugly. American stereotypes, family melodrama, love and personal betrayal mingles with dark, post-9/11 parable, plots rife with socio-political and ethical conflict, heroes and visionaries to profiteering gangsters and religious extremists. With hate, power, desire and being human, evident in stories inspired by recent history and current events. In addition, unremittingly keeps putting forth the notion of what is exactly human. It's about Genocide, war and the abyss after the precipice. Current concepts and futurism see them with faster-than-light space travel, but stuck and firmly rooted by laws of Newtonian physics. Range of human experience and emotion that can be only compared to dramatics of Shakespearean theatre.
Excellent characters include Edward James Almos' brilliant depiction of Commander/Admiral Adama; easily being a favourite. His slightly depressed attitude yet experience make him capable, if not slightly down heartened. His display as a commander of the pride of the fleet does show why he is the best person to have control of a superior vessel. He is quick to think, act and knowing what the cost is. His own life is confounded like the other characters, two being handed as female, where the predecessor had two male characters, (when fans should not complain) Katee Sackhoof as Kara 'Starbuck' Thrace, is born into the role of a hard-headed female Viper pilot. As well as the other female candidate played by Grace Park nicknamed 'Boomer'.
It is sci-fi enough to offer space battles with spiffy CGI and digital FX, 'in the mind of the pilot/documentary' shot sequences, new, improved, scary Cylon centurions and human-looking Cylon infiltrators who are more brutal because they have found a god to kill for. Sound familiar? Moreover, what you have been waiting for, yes it does have graphic scenes of a sexual nature.
Verdict:
The re-imagined Battlestar Galactica is light-years beyond Glen A. Larson's 70's adventure series, which introduced bad robots and the remnants of humanity on a biblical, cosmic exodus. Real dexterity of life in space is freshly depicted, through war and personal losses. 10/10. |
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