By Peter Killlip.
“All this has happened before, and all of it will happen again.”
Gods bless Netflix, it’s been an absolute age since I last viewed this beauty. Going some distance to argue that sometimes a re-boot can not only work but actually(whisper it)…….work wonders and best it’s original. Ronald D. Moore took Glen A. Larson’s camp and really quite crappy “original” ( a knee jerk reaction to the popularity of StarWars at best, so fond of taking other people’s ideas, his nickname was “Glen A. Larceny” in the industry. ) and retooled it for a grittier millennial audience .
Edward James Olmos taking the captain’s seat, Jamie Bamber as his son – “Apollo”, Katee Sackhoff as “Starbuck”( Dirk who?) and Tricia Helfer as the cylon in their midst “number six”, this was about more than wobbly backgrounds and wooden performances.Gone were the men in shoddy robot suits and in their place sleeper agents who could be awoken anytime, leaving any character allegiance on shaky terrain and suicidal cylon bombers with a sideline of religious zealotry .
Formerly Stock characters now getting plenty of meaty dialogue to chew on adds some sizzle to the steak. A lot like the cast of “The Wire”, they’d be more than hard pressed to find anything this good in contemporary drama again. Honourable mentions go to Mary McDonnell as moral compass and President “Laura Roslin” and James Callis as the none more weasely “Gaius Baltar”. T.V. This challenging would always be a hard sell with it’s post 9/11 themes and some are just point blank put off by the hacky “Sci-Fi” tag, ouroborus Central storyline or not, truly though, their loss. In what has now become accepted as a modern “Golden Age” of T.V. This is definitely a considerable pioneer.
“So say we all.”
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