While some of some of my favorite series are waiting for the new episodes to be aired (or resumed), and I need to watch something. Friend of mine, Chuck, has been recommending this Battlestar Galactica for a while now, so I figure, I’ll download them and start watching. So here goes.
Ok, first of all, it’s old. This series has been around for a while (started at 1978, then come the 2003 miniseries reimagining the 1978 original series, then continued to TV series since 2004), and it still on-going, but hey, good series are always enjoyable :). By the way, this post is about 2003 miniseries continued with the 2004 TV series (now it’s season 4). I don’t know about the original series.
Battlestar Galactica is a science-fiction TV series about the nearly-end human being fighting itself to survival after almost being destroyed by Cylons. Cylons are created by human, to make human life easier, but then the cylons turn against their creator and started a war to destroy human being. The first war (which are not told in the series, by the way) ends with agreement where cylons leave human to build the world of their own. 40 years pass, no-one ever hear from Cylons again, when suddenly they come back, and attempt destroy The Twelve Colonies of man. The war ends bitterly at human side, the twelve colonies were destroyed. One battlestar, Galactica, however were away during the attack, and together with some survived civilian fleet, they started a long journey, running away from the cylons, in search of Earth, a place according to the scriptures, are the place where the thirteenth colonies of human reside.
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