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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Olgar Shiverstone" data-source="post: 1260516" data-attributes="member: 5868">I hadn't planned on watching this, but caught it just as it started.  It was entertaining enough, if not particularly great -- and familiar enough that I started remembering all sorts of old BSG trivia.I like some of the improved attention to detail -- like seeing the reaction motors firing on the Vipers as they maneuver (though this nod toward spaceflight physics is immediatley broken by other things, but heck, it's scifi -- I'll suspend some disbelief).The nostalgic nod toward the old series was kind of cool in a retro sort of way -- the museum with all the old Ceylon props (though of course they *had* to switch back to the old Vipers).  The anti-technology theme was at least interesting, and I liked the explanation for the Ceylons' existence, even though that immediately made the rest of the tech levels in the show incongruous.  It at least shows they've updated some thinking in 25 years.Fembot and her related activities I mostly ignored.  My comment to my wife was "They didn't have sex in the '70s -- that's why there wasn't any in the original show." <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />We are interested enough to watch Part 2 tonight.  It's not great work, but it kills the time until RotK!Edit: It did get me thinking about the backstory, though, which I don't completely remember.  There are 12 colonies, right, with Earth the missing 13th?  Where did they come from, originally, and why don't they go back there -- and why do they still refer to themselves as colonies after all those years?  It's like the US or Canada referring to themselves as colonies.  Sigh. *attempts to suspend disbelief again*</blockquote>

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