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BATTLESTAR GALACTICA: SEASON 1 - REVIEW

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A hard one to review this one... Mainly because I'm still trying to figure out if I liked it or not! I mean, it has all the ingredients that make up a cool sci-fi series and for someone like me, who grew up watching the likes of Star Trek , Farscape and Lexx , it should have had me at "hello". Having never seen the 80's Battlestar Galactica series, I wasn't really sure what to expect from this remake. After a viewing of the pretty decent TV movie, I was really looking forward to more spontaneous Cylon cruelty (Number Six snaps a baby's neck in the movie for crying out loud!) and more OTT space opera drama/action. The first two episodes pick up where the TV movie left off: with the Battlestar Galactica valiantly... fleeing Cylon attacks and worrying about the amount of water the crew has left. It's pretty standard socio-political stuff but frankly they could have started the season with a plot bearing a little more "oomph". Thankfully G