Growing up in the late seventies and through the eighties one of my all-time (top five) favorite shows was... Battlestar Galactica. Cheesy, sure, but I don't care. I loved it all the same. What you have to understand is that, back then, with the Shuttle program getting underway, and talk of a space station by the mid-nineties, as well as a possible trip to mars by the millenia... this stuff wasn't sci-fi... it was training. By the time I grow up, I could be a viper pilot on a battlestar, the childish imagination would reason.
For years, hopes were raised and then dashed by rumors that would never transcend into fact... of a new series, a new TV movie, a new feature film, a new whatever. (Heck, even the space station took awhile to come around -- though it still isn't mature, and mars... oy, don't get me started.) I would hear about it, and want it, even as I grew older, but it would never come.
Finally, last April I heard that the Sci-Fi channel was doing it. They were really doing it. There were even enticing commercials to prove it. A new Battlestar Galactica series. All for my very own.
In December.... ARGH!!! I have to wait... eight... "fracking"... months...
Well, at long last, my twenty-plus year-old (and eight month) dreams have been realized and I am... impressed. Tonight was the first installment of the new three-part series, and over the months I've seen specials, glimpsed the commercials, and read various rants on the web about how bad it would be since they made so many changes.
While, yes, they made a lot (a whole darn lot) of changes, I really like what I see so far. They've done a really good job making the whole story seem more plausible, more dramatic, more dire, and in adding more realism to the technology. I was anticipatingly torn about the series until the opening five minutes of the show. Now I can't wait until the installment tomorrow.
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