2003 Directed by Michael Rymer
After a 40-year armistice in a war between the Twelve Colonies and the Cylons, the Cylons launch a surprise nuclear attack intended to exterminate the human race. Virtually all of the population of the Twelve Colonies are wiped out.
¿Cómo llegaste a Battlestar Galactica, más de diez años después de su transmisión?
Estaba viendo qué había en Netflix y recordé un capítulo de Portlandia en el que Fred Armisen y Carrie Brownstein pasan varios días sin salir de su casa porque no pueden dejar de ver Battlestar Galactica. Le di play y pasé un día sin salir de mi casa. No he perdido mi trabajo. Aún.
¿Por qué ver un show de navecitas y el espacio a estas alturas de la vida? ¿No hemos tenido suficiente con Star Trek?
Aunque lo he intentado, jamás he sentido cerca a Star Trek. Nunca pero nunca sentí empatía por uno solo de sus personajes. BG juega profundamente con los sentimientos y deja…
This show is also one of my favorites. The plot involves a group of cybernetic organisms created by man "Cylons" which create civilizations of their own and later go to war with mankind.
The episodes are electric; there is action and political strife and tension that builds and builds and builds... I cannot justify how awesome this series is in this review and will simply say that I strongly recommend seeing this.
Episodes are gripping and action packed and will keep you on the edge of your seat and perhaps cause you to reach for that bottle of scotch to handle the stress before it is all over...
Don't say I didn't warn you.
This is sci-fi at its very very best.
I'm not usually a big fan of overly melodramatic space-opera type stories but it's hard not to be won over by something this immensely formalist, from the opening one-shot character introductions through the tightly directed action (close-ups are used to great effect so that we never see what's going on before BAM the camera pulls back and the music kicks in and BAM you can't breathe), every emotional beat works exactly as it's planned (the best moments in the entire film/television pilot surround the refugee raffle) - I was unsure if I'd be onboard to stick it out with this TV show, but after an opening as immensely entertaining and impressive as this, I'm ready for whatever it throws at me.
One of the greatest starts ever to a TV series. It's totally immersive both in its world creation and its battle sequences. And it's philosophically provocative from the get go: the first line of spoken dialogue is, 'Are you alive?' The Cylons' struggle with their emerging humanity becomes one of the central impetuses of the show, but in the first three hours it's all about humanity's efforts just to survive, and it's intense, bleak, funny and exciting. The style of the show is innovative, with its hand-held ('floating'?) camera and quick zooms, and the primal musical score. The introductions to the many characters are deftly written and played. Katee Sackoff's Starbuck is the standout: wonderfully reconceived away from the alpha…
Really digging the writing and the way the space battles are shot. Intriguing setup - looking forward to seeing the whole series.
This reimagining of an SF "classic" is light years superior to the hokey, ridiculous original. Ron Moore was a major creative force behind "Star Trek: DS9," which is one of my favorite TV shows, and here he provides the basis for a truly great series. (at least, so far. I know a lot of people were disappointed by the resolution, but I only started watching fairly recently and I'm still in season 2 and everything is great.) All of the elements from the original are here (except, thank the Lords of Kobol, that silly robotic monkey/teddy bear), but tweaked to increase the drama and reality of the situation. It may seem odd to mention reality in a show about genocidal…
Interesting introduction to this series. I like the premise of Cylons. It reminds me of replicants from Blade Runner. I also noticed other similar correlations to more modern shows like Sense8 and The Expanse. I guess I'll start watching the TV episodes now and see if that is as good as this mini-series. (Watched September 2-3, 2017.)
Yeah, it makes a great first impression.
Does a good job at setting the tone and I'm looking forward to getting stuck into the series - got the box set off of eBay after I watched the first half of this.
Feels very different from anything sci-fi related on TV in 2003.
At least, it feels like this could be released nowadays, in the middle of all this great TV and make just as big an impact.
What really won me over was Edward James Olmos, though.
He's the real deal in this, elevating this from the sort of thing I was sort of interested in to something I'll probably end up watching all the way through before that box…
This was my second time watching the "miniseries", 8 years after the first. I was slightly disappointed by how it held up – I first watched it as a (far more) naive 17 year-old, and now I see it with different eyes. The mechanics are far more obvious to me now, and it's less convincing. The CGI shows its age. That said, I still really enjoyed it. I totally see how it spurred me on 8 years ago to watch the whole series in just a couple of months, and I really want to do the same again. Don't think I will, though.
Interesting introduction to the series. A little shallow sometimes, but worth watching, and made me curious to see how it continues.
It's an interesting setting and does a very good job of balancing the big cast within a sprawling but coherent narrative. I'm not sure I see anything truly spectacular here, but there were few missteps and the series is now bumped up on my watchlist.
This is the first thing I ever so of this show and all I heard before is that everybody is a Cylon. I thought it to be a joke but man that is the story in the nutshell so far.
And the movie is so loooong winded, you could have easily shaved 30 minutes of this. But the Sci-Fi is good. The world is fun and it feels Star Wars esque.
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