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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Scarbonac" data-source="post: 1271730" data-attributes="member: 9129">Well, I've seen the whole mini (two-part movie, really).I'm conflicted; I watched the original during its first run back in tha day, and loved it. I collected the Walt Simonson Galactica comics. I suffered through G80. I tried to keep up with the latter-day comics in the 90s. I wanted a Colonial Warrior jacket and a pulse-laser.*sigh*[Edit: Just wanted to note that I'm not blind to the weaknesses of BSG:TOS; I've watched the repeats on Sci-Fi; some eps hold up...some don't; the recycled SFX grate on my nerves from time to time and there are more than a few stilted performances. John Colicos is still delightfull ad Original Recipe Baltar, and Jonathon Harris's Lucifer still has a warm spot in my heart. Hey, isn't that Count Iblis over there...?]This was...OK...but only just. Adama, Baltar and Boomer made the show for me. "Starbuck" was...OK. Tigh was...OK (and yes, Virginia, I'm pretty certain that was a photo of #6 in which he was burning a hole; I did some freeze-frame comparisons that struck me as pretty conclusive).I could live with the downgrading of the weaponry from zappers to bangbangs and missiles, but I hated the  crappy shakey-cam used for the space-battles. The lack of robotic Cylons didn't enthrall me, either. I did like the use of RL physics, though.I liked the baby-killing scene; it brought home the idea that the Cylons were going to kill everyone. Death would come to all, young, old, healthy, sick, weak, strong, whatever. Since most of the deaths would happen almost completely off-screen, mushroom clouds notwithstanding, a few pilots, reporters, a civilian and a baby would have to symbolize them. Restrained ugliness.Sex? Gratuitous?So? Pile it on.Baltar is far and away my favorite; a weasel who has gotten in over his head, he has to hope that he can continue to deflect suspicions from himself, preserve the other humans (cos why live if you're the only one?) and root out the [spoiler]sleeper Cylons[/spoiler]. I see buckets of cold sweat in store for this character.I miss Athena & Cassie (although everyone's favorite Socialator could still put in an appearance), am damn glad that there's no goddamn Muffit (poor chimp stuck in a robot dog suit!) and hope Adama gets an episode where he uses the sword on his wall.</blockquote>

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