Mark begins a series covering the original Battlestar Galactica.
A journey that he hopes will bring him eventually to a distant world called Earth…
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My reaction toGalacticathen was mixed.
Coming back to the series 30 years later how doesSaga Of A Star Worldplay?
If Im brutally honest, it isnt great.
Its sufficiently Machiavellian to make it obvious from the outset who the good and bad guys are.
The Ovions are using humans to pupate their young, and the house always wins.
Obviously, health and safety wasnt a big deal in Ovion culture it seems.
In some places its excellent, and in others its appalling.
Overall, the optical effects range from being pretty good to exceptionally sloppy.
The temptation to reuse good sequences was way too high.
But these arent what really dates the show for me, and it isnt even the 70s hairstyles.
Its the complete lack of consistency.
Theres no identifiable vision, like inStargate.
Its just a mishmash of cultural references that actually make little coherent sense.
That contrasts heavily with the many Starbuck comedy sequences, and the introduction of Boxey to the robotic daggit.
