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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jdavis" data-source="post: 1260175" data-attributes="member: 8704">Well where to start at. (note these are only my personal opinions, I'm not a doctor nor do I play one on TV.)  Warning: Spoilers ahead. 1. The first 5 minutes of the show were pure crap. Lusty Cylons are just goofy, and why did the Cylons even stop there to start with? Just shoot the thing as you fly by, why do we need a scene with a Cylon french kissing a old guy for no apparent reason? 2. I hated everything about the Cylons except for the two CGI ones in the above mentioned first scene. And by everything I mean every stinking little detail about them, I especially hated when she told Baltar that she couldn't die, that she would just wake up in a new body somewhere else. Maybe they will do better with the cylons tomorrow night. 3. Some of those actors just were not very good actors. Some of them might not of had decent parts to work with but some of them just were not that believable. I liked Adama and I liked Baltar and...... well none of the rest of them really stood out at all. 4. Set design sucked for the most part, I did like Caprica, I liked Baltar's house too. I liked the vipers (old and new ones) and I liked the ship that took the soon to be President to the Galactica. I didn't care for the Galactica inside or out though and that was the main set for most of the show. 5. Wardrobe stunk, It really wasn't memorable at all and it didn't look all that official or military either. Civilian wardrobes were ok if a little uninspired, they just didn't stand out as anything special. Apparently they felt the need to dress Cylon 6 as a hooker.  6. The CGI work wasn't all that impressive and I hated their way of filming the space battles, what little footage of space battles there actually was. I understood the point they were trying to make but sometimes cool looking is more important than Realistic in space fighter combat. The fight scenes looked uninspired an unremarkable as a whole, even as bad as the original shows effects look today, they were cutting edge and exciting back then, heck they don't even look that bad compared to the effects in the new show. They never showed any of the rest of the fleet getting attacked, heck they never showed any of the fleet at all. They never showed the planets getting attacked either, just far off scenes of atomic bombs going off (I did like the one effect when Baltar was watching the reporter get blown away on his TV.) Maybe this is something they will do better on tomorrow night too, but so far I'm less than impressed by their "cutting edge CGI" (their words not mine). 7. I didn't like the "Computers=Bad" storyline either. Yes man's overeliance on computers will one day lead to his downfall, I've seen the Terminator movies and the Matrix movies please stop preaching to me about the evils of technology. I mean really they navigate space and control huge space fortresses but they can't have cordless phones? They sent messages with something that looked like a old form feed printer and a teletype machine. They created a sentient AI system and fully moble robots, but they can't shield a onboard ship network cable. Man if the cylons had had more than two fighters this would of really been a disaster. The "smartest man in the colonies" Baltar had to have help with a computer program, yet over 50 years ago they managed to build indepenant thinking robots that have the ability to send their full programming and AI light years away to new bodies if they are destroyed? Maybe I should log off the internet here before my reliance on technology destroys the world <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f644.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll eyes    :rolleyes:"  data-smilie="11"data-shortname=":rolleyes:" /> I mean really is that the best they could come up with? 8. By this point your probably thinking I hated it but over all it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be and I did see a couple of glimmers of hope in there. A lot of the problems I am faulting it for can be attributed to a low budget and with the exception of how moronic the evil computers storyline was the rest of it was watchable. Ok I take that back I still hate the cylons and how they took really cool genocidal robot troopers and turned them into baby killing oversexed Victoria Secrets models from outerspace (I changed the channel when I realized she was going to kill the baby, that's just not something that I want to see). The old cylons were robotic soldiers broken down into a strict cast system, singleminded and unfeeling, they never once tongue kissed a Colonial officer.  So to sum it up they hooked me enough that I will watch part 2 but not enough that I would watch a series based on what I have seen so far. I will give credit for it being better than I thought it would be going in (which wasn't hard to do as low as my expectations were set) but it still was a mess. I'll give them a second chance to wow me and hope they were saving all this cool stuff for part 2 but so far I am not all that impressed. Edit: I forgot one.9. Where did all the laser guns go off to?.......<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f621.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":mad:" title="Mad    :mad:"  data-smilie="4"data-shortname=":mad:" /></blockquote>

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