GALACTICA

Sorry it took so long to post this. I wanted to rewatch the original mini-series before starting on the new stuff, so that was six hours of Tivo viewing that I had to catch up on this weekend.

At this point I have no deep commentary to offer. My favorite character remains Baltar, probably because he hallucinates a hot blonde nymphomaniac Cylon. Wow, I think it would be worth it to destroy all of humanity in order to have sex with her.

“33” reminded me of a Star Trek TNG episode where the officers are playing a game of poker, and it gets repeated four times before they finally figure out that they are in a repeating time warp or something like that. There was never any explanation of how the Oceanic was related to the Cylons tracking the fleet after each FTL jump.

In “Water” we see a little more character development. Sharon “Boomer” Valerii who is a Cylon agent who thinks she’s human sabotaged the water tanks and then almost sabotaged the mission to find more water.

Besides the Cylon agent looking like a human arc, the part about the Galactica running out of supplies was a basic theme from the original series; it’s nice to see that at least some of the old plot elements are being recycled.

In the next episodes, I presume we will find out how Baltar is going to be able to convince everyone that he has some kind of chemical test to determine who’s human and who’s Cylon. If you recall from the miniseries, Baltar made up the fact that the one guy was actually a Cylon spy. But in an irony that the viewers discovered and Baltar doesn’t know, he actually was a Cylon spy.

It’s too bad that they have to use names from the old show when the characters have nothing to do with the old show’s characters. Boomer and Starbuck, who are both women, are completely different than the original Boomer and Starbuck. Not to mention that Boomer is a Cylon spy. I wonder if she has super Cylon strength?

The new Battlestar Galactica is missing a real Starbuck, a buddy for Lee “Apollo” Adama to provide a much needed male bonding aspect to the series.