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JOEL RECOMMENDS
By Ant Speak | May 6, 2009
The TV series Battlestar Galactica just ended its critically-acclaimed, wildly popular four-season run in the US, but there’s still time for us to catch up.
In BSG, a “reimagined” series based on the campy original from the 70s, all of humanity lives on twelve colonies. Years ago they created robots, called Cylons. who in turn rebelled against their masters. A bloody war ensued and just as abruptly, stopped. Forty years later, the Cylons returned, nuking all of the twelve colonies, with only 50,000 human survivors left. This ragtag fleet of survivors is led by the only military vessel to survive: the aging Battlestar Galactica. They begin to search for the legendary planet Earth, their new home. But along the way, the Cylons chase them. And, some of them look exactly human.
If you think this is your basic science fiction, you are wrong. Battlestar Galactica is as much about our Earth today as it is about these fictional characters. Everyone from Time Magazine to Tracy, our Executive Producer, has been calling it one of the most important TV series this century.
Battlestar Galactica is available on DVD on most video stores. Pick up the miniseries first before watching the regular series.
May 6th, 2009 at 7:42 pm
i see there was some styling going on :p
May 7th, 2009 at 2:33 am
Geekdom rules. Clockwise from top right: me as Leoben Conoy, Tracy (EP) as Number Eight, Elwyn (editor) as Starbuck, Vives (director/editor) as Viper Pilot Who Dies After Three Episodes.
May 7th, 2009 at 2:52 am
uy. vives, sleeveless.
May 7th, 2009 at 11:38 am
Gods, buti I did not go as Six.
December 13th, 2009 at 2:31 am
Stunning, I didn’t heard about this topic up to the present. Cheers.