Battlestar Galactica

Battlestar Galactica. Its an unbelievably good show. Now first off a lot of you who are reading this are probably saying that it’s campy Sci-Fi crap, and well many of you are partially right. The original series was campy, but had an interesting, albeit pseudo Christian, storyline. Some of the acting was sub-par and it was not really believable to think Starbuck retired his space wings to later blow up stuff with the A-Team.

The new series, or rather re-imagining, however is unbelievable. And in my post-24 world (sorry I’ve devoted 100 hours to the show already and the storyline patterns are just too blatantly obvious now), I need a good show with an interesting storyline to hold my interest. Here’s a brief synopsis:

The humans build a race of robots called the Cylons to make life on the Twelve colonies of mankind easier. Man actually colonized 13 planets when leaving their original home on the planet Kobol, but no one has heard from the thirteen colony except they know it’s called Earth. Anyway, the Cylons rebelled and they two sides fought a bloody war. When victory seemed unlikely, the two signed an armistice and the Cylons left for a world to call their own. 40 years later, they return and nuke the hell out of the colonies. 50,000 people aboard a number of ships escape, being protected by one of the oldest capital ships in the fleet, the Battlestar Galactica.

The show is the story of this retag fleet and their flight across space, battling, the Cylon’s ships and weapons, political conflicts, Cylon infiltrators, terrorists and mentally unstable doctors. The storyline is dark and well written, while unlike the original series, the main characters have flaws and make mistakes. Alcoholic Executive Officers, inhuman admirals, conscious tortured evil hot Asian girl robots, the standard archetypes are shot to hell in this one and maybe that’s why its such a popular show. The characters seem more real, their situation not so unfamiliar.

Why should you watch it? There are so many reasons I wouldn’t know where to begin, but suffice it to say it’s a great show. If that’s not enough, than know that it’s one of the highest ranking shows on American TV ratings these days and it available for a very cheap download on iTunes. Also, its damn good television, which as far as I’m concerned today this is very little of!