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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jester47" data-source="post: 1260354" data-attributes="member: 2238">For the last week I have been catching a few of the original series.  And overall, I think this one is a pretty darned good scifi flick and that they have preserved the things that make it BSG.  Some things I noticed:The facial expressions of the new Starbuck and the old one are almost right on.  She did her homework on that bit.  As for the Cylons-  I like the idea of the human looking cylons.  Only because Baltar in the original series was assisted by Lucifer, a cylon that looked more human than the others.  As she said there are only 12 of her, so thats not so bad.  Also, in the original series Baltar really had no reason for going traitor, here he does.  Lust and ego.  I like how they did the space fights.  The fact that they used more spacelike physics was very cool.  I like the shakey camera technique.  I also like how they did the fire on the deck.  A bit of realism is pretty good.  I noticed some serious similarities between the fights in this and in Space: Above and Beyond.  I also like how the nukes give off EMPs.  As for the baby... I don't know.  I think that she crushed the trechea.  But in truth she is not someone to be trifled with and I think this showed it.  As for the machine paranoia- I think it fits better tha the original plot.  It gives the cylons reason to be going after humanity.  What is their motivation in the original?  I like how they made the Galactica an older ship about to be mothballed.  I like how the reason it does not get taken out is because it is not networked and everything is wired (that is no "cell" style tech aboard).  It gives it a very good reason for it being the last battlestar and the machine infiltration gives good reason for everything else being blown apart.  The uniforms looked like uniforms to me.  I for one am glad we did not get the quasi-futuristic clothing in this one.  Nomral people are wearing normal cloths!  Go figure!  Now, about the realism.  My roomate (male) is not one to watch Science Fiction movies.  However, this quickly captured him and my other roommate (female) into watching it.  These are people that ignore star trek when its on, and would not be considered Sci Fi fans.  What attracted them to it (they kept saying it over and over) was the realism and believability.  Also the comment from one (female) about the cloths was "that they didn't look stupid like the stuff the aliens all wear in star trek."Doing a side by side comparison with the original, I think that this one is darned good.  Also what I like is the fact that they have not thrown out the baby with the bathwater- the "toaster" cylons are still in existence along with the CGI and human ones (if you looked at the papers the officer was looking at you saw the original cylon design).  I like how they gave a reason to use older vipers.  As for the change of the Cylon ships it just makes sense.  If your ships are machines piloted by machines why have the redundancy?  It seems to me that machines would just make the fighters cylons too.  It seems to me that they sort of looked at the original series andasked questions and then attempted to answer those questions.  Their design was then based on these answers.  I like thier use of Nukes.Aaron.</blockquote>

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