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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Olgar Shiverstone" data-source="post: 1262703" data-attributes="member: 5868">My nostalgia overrides my sense with regard to the original.  I just went and read some plot synopses on a fan website.  I remember a lot of the episodes based on that -- but what lousy writing and plot ideas!  AH, well, when you're eight you overlook a lot of that.My question for this show (OK, one of many):  Where are all the people?  There's supposedly 50,000 civilians in the rag-tag fugitive fleet, and we know there are only 40 civilian ships (since that's all that had FTL).  That's an average population of 1250 per ship (actually higher, since you have ships like the prison barge with 500, and fuel ships that likely have a very small complement).Galactica dwarfs any other ship in the fleet.  Now, we don't know how many people it carries (based on the original series tech stats, it had a crew of 500 plus 200 pilots, but carried 2000 in fugitive mode), but assume the 2,000 figure.  Even though it needs lots more room for fuel, ordnance, armor, fighters, etc, and that accounts for some of the size difference, I'm not sure I buy ships at 1/10th the tonnage carrying 2,000 each across the RTFF -- unless they're packed liked sardines, in which case there's the whole food/water/O2/waste problem that gets handwaved -- if they're packed like that, it's unlikely that O2 scrubbers are designed for that population, for example, and things re likely to break down pretty quickly.I enjoyed the show, certainly as much as the original, but things like this had my wife and I scratching our heads through the whole thing.</blockquote>

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