First Impressions of Battlestar Galactica (2004)

Ok I am soooooo late to this game.
A few weeks ago I was keeping my wife awake with my snoring so I decided to go out to the living room and watch some TV online. I had been going back and forth with starting Battlestar Galactica for some time. Everything I heard about it was good, but not having cable/dish, let alone not having Tivo, I didn't have the ability nor the time to sit down and watch it. But this early morning time gave me the perfect opportunity to try out Battlestar (courtesy of surfthechannel.com).

A music video that acts as a good preview of the types of things you will see in BSG.

Though I made the mistake of watching episode 1 of season 1, "33", unaware that there was a miniseries setting up the reguar TV series, I was still blown away by the episode. I realized I had to figure out a way to see the miniseries. Fortunatly a friend at work had the first season, which includes the miniseries, and he let me borrow it (thanks James). My wife and I both watched 3-hour first disc and were born BSG fans then and there. Fortunatly, or unfortunatly, she can't sit for too long watching show after show, so we are pacing ourselves through the series. If had been left to my own devices I probably would have watched the whole thing the day I borrowed it and been much the worse for ware, for it.

With deep and authentic characters, a mission of survival, and intense space combat scenes done by some of the same people that worked on Joss Wheadon's Firefly, BSG is and amazing work of science fiction goodness. My only nitpick at the moment is the radar used by the ships. Why would highly advanced digital radar require the iconic radar sweep visual. It doesn't seem to serve any purpose, becasue the targets on the display continue to move reardless of the sweeps position. Does anyone else notice this or is there a logical explanation for it?

So if you have seen BSG, what do you think of it (and please no spoilers ;))? If you haven't and you at least enjoy scifi to some extent, you should really check it out.