Comments on: Battlestar is Back: The Best Show on TV

By: anderbilt

anderbilt — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 18:57:36 +0000

I am always intrigued by Battlestar Galactica, always enough to blunt some of the problems that some improbable technology or plot development can raise.
I am captivated by the general development of the themes, I am a fan of the entire cast without exception, I applaud the unquestioned way that equality of the sexes has been presented, and I am always re-energized by the way that this series can come back time and time again to piercing moments of clarity that touch the viewer’s emotional investment in the series.
By comparison, “House,” or any brand of “C-S-I” you’d care to name, are consistently-crafted pieces of filler that dip into the same stereotypical well over and over imo. Sorry but there it is.
The main problem with Battlestar Galactica is that its enduring excellence points out how awful every other thing on the Sci Fi channel is right now. who’s programming that place?

By: Dino

Dino — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 23:02:09 +0000

Skimming the posts I fall into the category of “Loved it Once, Now Hate it”. What makes SciFi so unique is that you can real characters and put them in any and all kinds of extreme situation and see how real people would deal with it. That was BSG for much of the first two seasons but by season three the writers of this show through off all pretext of authenticity. When I began to want to see the “good guys” killed off I knew my days as a fan were numbered. If our species is ever on the brink, I don’t want anyone with the last name Adama anywhere near the controls and Helo, don’t get me started!!!

This is Capt Janeway all over again. Putting the lives of her crew at enormous peril to save the species from fluid space. Her ability for cold (i.e. real) calculation is why Seven saved that series from an early death.

It is obvious that there is a small cliche of SciFi talent that reappears in new vehicles. I applaud this concept (I.e. all our friends from Firefly.) but someone needs to flush the writers and producers for some true believers.

By: Christopher

Christopher — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:07:45 +0000

I am sorry, but I stopped watching after that made it heroic to blow themselves up in protest to the Cylon occupation (Season 3????). The liberals all buzzed about the parallel to the Iraq war. It makes us (the USA) sound like the Cylons.

It appears (and I have not watched) that my decision to turn it off was a good one, because even in the latest trailers, they want people to think that “The Cylons are just like us!” What a load of liberal *#&$^#&!!!

I loved the first two seasons, and bought the DVD’s. Maybe I am being too sensitive, but the show offends me! and I choose not to watch, or buy their DVD’s. I am glad to see by the responses that I am apparently not completely alone.

By: M Colins

M Colins — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:33:18 +0000

While the series has occassionally been heavy handed, such as the occupation and imprisonment of the human colonists by the Cylons during the “Iraqtica” season, the fact is as often as not, the characters have spouted some conservative tenets on many occassions as well. I can’t say I think there is much political message one way or another injected into BSG. As for the original BSG, sorry Dirk, that show was pure Happy Days cheese and jumped the shark by the end of the 1st season. It ended up looking like any and every 70s-80s sitcom, with plots neatly resolving themselves within the proscribed time limits with blow dried beach babes and cutesy pie tow headed youngsters and comical robots.

Something I havent read commented upon as yet, doesnt the revelation that the Cylons actually came from earth 2000 or more years ago actually mean that they cannot be “toasters” or the ultimate evolution of the mechanical servants the humans created? This IMO further confuses things because now we have to imagine a history of how this alliance between a race of Earth became identified with robots and consequently became aligned against their own descendants to the point they actually attempted to wipe them out.

By: Craftyone

Craftyone — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 04:40:09 +0000

I was thrilled when I heard BSG was coming back to tv. Until I saw it. A female Starbuck sucking on a cigar seems…..provocative? A subliminal message maybe? Anyway, I watched a few times and found it sadly lacking in everything that makes a series worth watching. Too blasted dark, dreary and angst ridden with no redeming qualities whatever. When even the bad guys can’t tell they’re the bad guys what does that say? Stupid! Firefly/Serenity and Babylon 5 were excellent and how long did they last? The idiots in charge can’t stand to be proven wrong.

By: rekres

rekres — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 03:04:50 +0000

Yeah, its a pretty good show… but not the best on TV, not even the best in Sci-Fi.

Both Firefly/Serenity and Babylon 5 beat this one out, but I’d put it a close third…

By: B51001

B51001 — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:54:39 +0000

BSG is too much heavy drama. Weak pathetic humans. Too much with the skin jobs, not enough with the toasters. I like the metal Cylons. The skin jobs just means easier to make a television show without the use of CGI. Not enough confrontations with the Cylons. They spent more time fighting among themselves. LA Law in space.

By: JohnFNWayne

JohnFNWayne — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:27:23 +0000

If you watched the BSG premiere Friday and haven’t yet slashed your wrists from the rampant cynicism, gone blind with the flashy editing or wonder how long these writers were flogged in Turkish prisons as infants, turn into the Burn Notice premiere Thursday on USA. You’ll be glad you did.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:20:13 +0000

I haven’t watched this since the original mini-series. What should I netflix in order to catch up? There is something called “The Story So Far”, will that be enough? Or should I watch the seasons in order. And what the heck is with season 2.5? That is very confusing. Help.

By: Rose

Rose — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:18:31 +0000

I cant believe that so many people are talking about how right and wrong are confused in this show. Many Americans feel dropping the A-Bombs in Japan was Right and just as many feel it was Wrong. Stop assuming we all have the same definition of WRONG AND RIGHT ANYWAY. And since this is the case–morality becomes blurry.

But on to less obnoxious topics…the entire series of BSG might be ruined with this ridiculousness of Ellen Tigh being the Final Cylon.