This won’t be as long as it deserves, but I will offer my two cents.
CityTV re-broadcast the 2003 mini-series remake of Battlestar Galactica, and quite frankly, it’s brilliant. It’s a truly apocalyptic vision, and a superb reimagining of a series that had good bones but the most hokey and earnest of execution (and let’s not even mention Galactica 1980).
Aside from the superb special effects, the doom-laden direction, the subdued yet beautiful acting, and the writing/producing genious of former Star Trek TNG/DS9 wunderkind Ronald D. Moore, what Battlestar Galactica has going for it is an examination of the consequences of our actions, and how to deal with them. It is a far cry from the third season of Star Trek-Enterprise, which is basically America’s revenge fantasy played out on screen with all the subtlety of a thousand-pound sledgehammer.
Now that Galactica is going to be a series, I have hope once more in the fact that good television does NOT have to be endless reality crap. I suggest that everyone support what will no doubt be an excellent series.
