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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 3089427" data-attributes="member: 14159">Part of the appeal of Battlestar Galactica is that the characters aren't perfect people, they might not follow manual-perfect contracting procedures all the time.  They aren't recruiting poster stereotypes, they are a lot more fleshed out as rounded characters than the typical TV heroes.   They make mistakes, they've got their failings.  Dr. Cottle is a decent doctor, but he smokes and doesn't really care about what it's doing to him.  Adama is a good leader, but he's sometimes overemotional and has problems with being countermanded.  Lt. Thrace has serious anger and authority issues who would have been court martialed years before if Adama didn't keep covering for her, but is a crack shot and ace pilot.  Dr. Baltar is one of the brightest minds of his generation, but has an ego the size of a supergiant and a libido to match.  Yes, they don't always follow letter-perfect procedure, but that's what real people would do in those circumstances.   With characters like Specialist Cally and Chief Tyrol they've had probably the best depiction of enlisted personell I've ever seen on TV science fiction.You don't get the heroic mythic figures of Babylon 5 making epic speeches at the drop of a hat and you don't have the perfect happy people of Trek always getting along and ending up happily ever after at the end of just about every episode.Oddly enough, from the acting and the way the characters act, I find Battlestar Galactica one of the more realistic shows on TV.  The characters act like how I'd expect real people to act under such circumstances, their motives are sometimes unclear, even to themselves, they let their emotions get the better of them at times, loyalties are mixed and clouded, and their actions are sometimes contradictory.(New) Battlestar Galactica is more of a drama series with a military/apocalypic theme that happens to use a Sci-Fi setting, than a "Sci Fi" show.</blockquote>

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