I have to admit that I am utterly hooked on the reboot of Battlestar Galactica on the SciFi channel. When it kicked off in 2004 as a special 2-hour movie pilot I missed it (because I don’t get full cable) and thus I was left out… for too long. Whilst my friends spun yarns about this new, incredibly riveting twist on the old post-disco space quest, I brushed it off and went about my business in ignorant bliss.
Then I saw on Lifehacker (an absolute gem of a site) an article on a great little utility called TED (Torrent Episode Downloader). TED, when paired with your friendly BitTorrent client (I like uTorrent), will make watching episodes of today’s most popular shows nearly effortless (we’ll discuss the gray legalities in another post sometime).
Anyways… after getting TED I saw Battlestar Galactica listed and figured – what the heck. I was instantly enthralled… consumed. The plot is aggressive unlike any series I’ve seen. The actors are almost all unknowns and it injects the cast with a refreshing burst of creative believability – as seen in 300, whose cast of mostly unknowns is widely held to have bolstered the film’s success. The special effects are superb, but the acting is even better. The storylines are rarely contrived, and often wildly unpredictable – so much so that the Season 3 finale this past Spring ended with the most intense, cinematic, plot-electrifying 10 minutes of revelations and confrontations I can possibly imagine ever occurring in any movie, TV show, or theatrical presentation.
But alas… I wait for Season 4… but it won’t begin until… November.
Must… h o l d… o n . . .
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I like it! thanks…..:))
07 20 07
Hello Steve:
Glad you gave the show a shot. It was far better than the two hour movie upon which it was based. The last season ended with a major cliffhanger; I can’t wait until November. They sure do make us wait a long time!!!