Fashion Board 12-09-03 through 1-08-04

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and I didn't hate her.

I think the series is running on Sci-Fi over and over again for the rest of the month, and if you're a fan of the original but willing to let go some of your pre-conceived notions, you might like it.
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Battlestar Galactica Spoilers
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We were thrown off initially because there was no opening credit and the music wasn't there to remind us that we were watching Battlestar Galactica. There was a lot of backstory covered in a series of subtitles, about the Cylons and the war and the lack of war for awhile and no one had heard from the Cylons for awhile.

The first half-hour or so was setting everyone up, and explaining what was going on. No word from the Cylons, Galactica about to be decommissioned, and a lot of the stuff on Galactica was antiquated. The colonies were finally getting out of their fear of networked computers, and Baltar was unknowingly consorting with Cylons.

Henry James Olmos made a very good Adama, I thought, and there were some nice touches with the re-do. It took me awhile to get used to Starbuck was a girl, though the cigar in her first scene helped. Tigh was wholely different than he was in the original, though I liked that he wasn't just an Adama yes-man, like he was in the series. Boomer and Jolly were never really well developed in the series, but I liked Boomer (a younger girl), and Jolly seemed to have been rolled into a deck-commander type, though there was another person named Jolly. The political situation was totally different than in the original series, though there were some nice conflicts set up, though as far as I could tell none of the class conflicts were developed yet. No counsel of twelve, and it seemed to be more of a democracy.

It took nearly a half-hour to get Apollo on the scene, and I liked him. I liked his bitterness towards Adama about Zack (I'm glad that they didn't try to replicate Zack's death), and I liked his clear desire to be a separate person from his father. I sort of missed the Serena thing, but I understood, though didn't approve of, a budding thing with Starbuck. I thanked everyone for the wisdom in keeping the robot dog out of the show.

I think it's possible that there were too many characters. They locked Starbuck in the brig early on, and after a brief exchange with Apollo, we really didn't see her again until the Cylon attack. Same goes, in the second part, when Adama is off alone with the refugee arms-dealer guy.

Baltar I liked a lot. Very much a flawed character, and seemingly manipulated, but I think he proved himself in the end. I especially like how he was set up to steal his way on the getaway ship, but turned out to be a fairly decent human being that had unwittingly made a horrible alliance. I think that if the show ever becomes a series, he'll be by far the most interesting character.

All in all, with the understanding that I loved the original series, I thought it was well done, and I'd watch this make-up of people again through their adventures.