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01/15/2005 Archived Entry: "Battlestar Galactica"

About a year ago when the new Battlestar Galactica miniseries was about to be shown, I was preparing an entry for this site. I was going to make fun of how everything is being rehashed from the near past, and how it was getting annoying. That entry had to be scrapped, because the miniseries was good. The most of the characters were interesting, and Baltar is facinating. People actually suffer in the storylines. Nice looking sets and mysterious Cylons had me wishing for a series.

Now I have my series.

But you have to understand that this only worried me. In in my nature to worry about what I want when I see it coming. The SciFi people hacked the Earthsea saga into idiocy and cliche. Why should I expect excellence from a TV series?

So what did I get? The start of a good series, that is what I saw tonight. Baltar is looking tense, exasperated, and vulnerable enough to gain a viewer's sympathy as he destroys the human race. Adama looks fatherly, sometimes intimidating, always trying to do right. A litany of secondary characters will, I hope, keep the good storylines coming. The camera work and design give the show a claustophobic and disordered tone perfect for the show. I would never have guessed the SciFi network would do such a good job with this.

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