Battlestar Galactica - My first impression

[tinnny]

I saw the mini and the first thing I thought was "wow, these cylons are way cool, I'm so looking forward to this." Then it turns out they look like humans, and I felt cheated. I hate ploys to cut production costs and I'm accusing them of one

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[rez_lo]

Hurrah for marketing! I'm glad you're giving it another chance. I know nothing about the original series, remember enjoying the miniseries a lot (but remember little detail at this point), but I do love the characters, the darkness, the ambiguity, the nature of the conflicts that are being set up. I don't care that it's SF, particularly, though I don't have a problem with SF per se. I'm just glad to find an adventure story that lets darkness be dark, as opposed to ones where scars disappear once the stab wound has served its plot-anvil purpose, for example

[tinnny]

Wee, Rez! Hi!

I wasn't expecting a comment from you. To be honest, I wasn't expecting any comments. I found that in the last two months, noone outside of Germany has commented on any of my posts. In that sense, I doubly thank you for commenting! I don't feel so invisible anymore.

but I do love the characters, the darkness, the ambiguity, the nature of the conflicts that are being set up

Yes, I've got to agree with you there. It is complex, and they tend not to solve anything within one or two episodes. I like that a lot, too.

I don't care that it's SF, particularly, though I don't have a problem with SF per se

You know, if it comes to that, I really prefer SF over everything else. It's just the military part that I don't like as much. But then, the only space series ever without military structures was Farscape. It's not really a common theme... ;).

Number Six, and it's not because she's hot (Starbuck is way hotter)

Oooh yes. Well said.

It's a good sign for me when I'm this interested in that many characters. True. I agree