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Here's some random thoughs.
If one is a purist of the original series, they're more than likely going to hate this. No ifs, ands or buts. However, there's a fairly decent change regular fans may find it decent.
I like the way they "tipped the hat" at the original series without being a slavish knockoff or 70's retro. Little things like the old Cylon armor in the museum display, and the old "Mk 2" Vipers.
Cylons have libidos. And active ones at that. Massively active ones, to the point that their central nervous system overheats and the spine has to discharge the heat. At least that's the only reason I see for the glowing spine on Number Six. Didn't Baltar ever notice the singed and burned sheets afterwards?? Good thing she was on top - missionary would have caught the bed on fire. And we won't even go into any other position.........
Cylons also have a religion. Interesting, most religions have a creator/creatrix foundation to their belief. The Cylons *know* their creators - and are trying to exterminate them. I would wonder why this would be the case - unless somehow humanity is seen as having "fallen", in which case this is a crusade against the devils or infidels.
The fashion model playing the Cylon "Number Six" couldn't have been more wooden if she tried. The only reason I can see why she was chosen for the job was ability to get out of clothing rapidly and experience with silicone-based lifeforms. However, the actor playing Commander Adama kicks ass.
First the Cylon Supermodel, and then Boomer and her CPO crew chief tear off a piece. Okay, the future belongs to those with superlibidos it seems.
Original series Baltar, a meglomanical mastermind and ultimate traitor. Remake, Baltar's a cross between Stephen Hawking and Bill Gates, super-smart, amoral, womanizer, and basically only concerned with his own skin. No wonder Number Six found him a pushover.
The new Starbuck, however, is pretty cool. Yeah, I can see why the Dirk Benedict estrogen brigade doesn't like the change, but like her and her attitude. However, she has to be one damm good pilot or have a shitload of friends in high places, because otherwise her attitude would have gotten her cashiered from the military a long time ago.
Nice explanation for the Galactica looking like a technological throwback - it was designed 50 years ago with non-networked computers and deliberately retro technology because the Cylons had the ability to take over and control computer networks. Nice twist from the Galactica in the original series being the "Latest and Greatest". In the Original series, the Galactica was basically a Nimitz-class carrier. In this remake, it's a Forrestal-class, functional, but getting long in the tooth and about to be retired into a museum-piece, a la the Intrepid in New York.
However, the Colonial Fleet, *knowing* that the Cylons can infiltrate computer networks, still went to networked systems in the newer Battlestars and Vipers. Okay, granted their networked systems were compromised by Number Six, but I would have expected them to have non-networked backup systems that were completely independent from the networked systems. To quote Tom Clancy in "Hunt for Red October", paper charts don't break. The idea that these backup systems didn't exist strikes me as tactically stupid. As, it seems, they found out when all the networked systems went dead just before the Cylon fighters attacked.
Okay, you have fighter pilots, but no fighters. You, however, have all these mk. 2 Vipers in the Museum area, so you quickly pull them out, get them flight capable and armed, and send them out. Yeah, right. That's like pulling a batch of F-4 Phantoms on display at Wright-Patterson or NASM, getting them flight capable with no more than a about-to-be-decommissioned carriers internal stores, sticking F-14 or F-18 pilots into the cockpits, and launching them. Okay, have to suspend disbelief for dramatic effect here.
Okay, if the civilian chain of command is knocked out to the point that the person 43rd in line becomes president, we're screwed. If the military chain of command is knocked out to the point that the senior surviving officer is the commander of a about-to-be decommissioned carrier, we're doubly screwed. At this point, running as far and fast as possible is the only viable option, especially when the alternative is genocide.
So far, not bad. Look forward to part two tonight.
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