Battlestar Galactica
I love science – fiction. I love „Star Wars”, I’ve seen „Star Trek”, I think “Blade Runner” is one of the best cyberpunk movies ever, not to mention how many times I’ve watched “Terminator”.
And in all this I found it. My Eldorado, something that beat everything I saw, messed up with my life, changed my view. Battlestar Galactica.
Long time ago, when I wasn’t in the world a TV show was created about people from different planets, evil Cylons who tried to destroy them and searching Earth. Nothing special but it turned out to be a good show, with cheesy effects but at that time they seemed pretty good. The show lasted till 1980 and it was finally finished.
23 years later, a very clever and smart guy Ronald D. Moore thought that it would be a good idea to make “Battlestar Galactica” back to life. He wrote a new screenplay, decided that Cylons won’t be just rebelled robots that turned against people, but some models will look like us (but not like Ahnuld from Terminator), the show will be a darker, 300% of all the money will be given on effects, so George Lucas will be shocked.
The plot is easy. Man created Cylons to work, protect us and many different stuff. But as it always is with the A.I., Cylons finally understood that something is wrong and they rebelled. 12 Colonies had to protect against the attack. Huge battlestars were build to protect, many people fought to defeat the Cylons, many of them died.
After many years of war, both the Cylons and people decided to end it. Cylons moved to some different part of outerspace to find a place to live. After 40 years Cylons attacked again but this time they did it very smart. They got an access to the main defence servers and turned it out. After that they nuked the 12 colonies. Those who survived escaped on space ships but in space the battle also was in progress. From all battlestars only one survived. Galactica.
From now on people will escape from one place to another searching for Earth where in old time the 13th colony left as it is written in sacred scrolls.
Miniseries, a 3 hour movie was first shown in 2003. After 2 years on 2005 the first season was shown on Sci-Fi Channel. To this year 3 seasons were shown and the 4th one is suppose to be aired in January 2008.
I’ve heard something about the show but I wasn’t convinced and one day I thought “Let’s give it a chance”. I downloaded miniseries, turned it on and…BOOM!!! 5 minutes later I was in love. I was sitting and watching as if I saw a space movie for the first time. I decided that if Cylons are suppose to look like Number 6 I want one :).
Special effects are awesome, they beat a lot of sci-fi movies with huge budgets. And the music itself is a masterpiece.
All characters are very well created. They evolve throughout the show. Sometimes you just don’t know if you shouldn’t be on the Cylons’ side. Each of the character has a uniqe personality, and actors play just great.
Producers decided to take actors practically unknown, except maybe Edward James Olmos and Lucy Lawless and thanks to that when watching you see characters not actors.
If you want some great space entertainment, with a plot and good character, watch “Battlestar Galactica”. Cheers.
Watch the movie I made :]
And see the differences between the new and old version.
