I’m not going to be too long-winded here: if you’ve been
following this blog you already know my general feelings about the series. The
series pilot, “Saga of a Star World” just sort of set a negative tone that took
half the season to recover from, and by that time most everyone had tuned out
(excepting the show’s letter-writing fan base). Add to that clinky-clunky Cylon
villains about as formidable as wind-up toy robots, repetitive video-game-style
scenes of outer space dogfights between ships, and plotlines recycled from Westerns.
war movies and abstract mythology and you get a major disappointment. Only
toward the end of the season do we get some relief from this snooze-fast, when
more personalized, character-based stories started to emerge.
But my **1/2 star rating (out of four) also includes Galactica 1980, which was a surprise
delight for me, thanks primarily to the more simplified, down-to-Earth (pun
intended) storylines and campy, whether intentional or not, tone. Two alien
dudes, sans any kind of personality and not even trying, travelling via flying
motorcycles and turning invisible whenever the need be, are infinitely more
entertaining than miles and miles of technospeak and contrived visits to
Earth-like planets while trying to get to Earth itself. Averaged out, the
rating for both series, along with the pilot as theatrical release, is, as I
mentioned, **1/2 stars: not terribly shabby methinks. Of course, it maintained
such a cult following for so long after that they rebooted the show in 2004 for
the Sci-Fi channel. That, I can assure you, will never get the honor of my keystrokes
as I never recognized the turn of the millennium. At least on this blog.
Series Rating: **1/2
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