Linbeymusol Wonderful character development!

Mjeteconer Just perfect...

Kodie Bird True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

Stephan Hammond It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

History Observer Note:- 8/10 is considering it was 1978. Today, more like a 7.Fast paced sci-fi drama with tongue in cheek character typing and scripting that plays out beautifully well in a serious manner. In your face religious references and future technology produce a cunning backdrop and environment.Family friendly with good moments for laughing.Even the wife started watching it after she got over that it was sci fi (she hates sci-fi - even Star Wars).If someone was to say that this is supposed to be competition for the Target Audience of Star Trek I would disagree. This series has more appeal than what I've seen of Star Trek (old and new).Note:- To those who want to watch BsG, this 1978 series is the most common and best - with the spin offs being very poor in many ways (except for the 2004 're-imagined' seasons which are actually user rated into the top 100 TV shows on IMDb).

Blueghost I'm not a big Battlestar Galactica fan, but it was an okay TV show for what it was. In retrospect the show, to me anyway, was clearly aimed at at kids, and was also clearly riding off of the success of Lucas's Star Wars the year before. But, other than the obvious production design similarities between Star Wars and Larson's TV production, there was something that was holding back a better series; a diversity of stories, and a willingness to engage original sci-fi tales.A lot of sci-fi is penned by psychologists as an offer of thought experiments to peers, to offer possible treatments for mental illness and as possible origins for social problems stemming from said illnesses, and possible solutions thereof. Battlestar Galactica is a little more prosaic in that it uses conventional tales for its show instead of the over use of psychological mumbo-jumbo, which is a welcome relief on one level. But, on another level, because the show is aimed at a family audience, you get a fairly vanilla flavored sci-fi experience that lacks the drama of a Star Wars or Star Trek, but tries to make up for it in the scope and scale of the action presented on the small TV screen.The invention and use of "alien" lexicon for the characters seemed neat, and added a flavor to the world in which we are presented. Little tidbits like the use of ancient Egytian culture as a basis for a society also add a kind of familiar and foreign all at once kind of flavor to the overall production. There're lasers, there're robot bad guys, there're heroes, villains, some fairly basic stories.Overall it's a solid production, but, like Star Wars, I can't say I'm a fan of it. In fact I would say that even though I'm not a Star Wars fan, I'm more of a Star Wars fan than I ever will be a BSG fan, but that's my personal preference. Even so I like the show for what it is, and am sorry it didn't thrive better than it should have.After Star Wars hit the theatres there was talk of a Star Wars TV series, that never materialized. I'm sorry it didn't. It would have been interesting to see that TV show go head to head against Battlestar Galactica in both ratings and reviews.Battlestar Galactica itself centers around a space-"aircraft"-carrier of sorts, that borrows the concept of today's carrier steam catapults to get Hornets and other craft into the air, and launches Viper space fighters via a launch tube. The carrier, or Battlestar, doesn't have any escorts (which might have helped the show's staying power if it had) but a long train of survivalist vessels. Her crew and those they protect and guide encounter a plethora of threats from without and within their own ranks. Not the best show ever made, but certainly worth looking at once.Give it a try.

ivan2012 I enjoyed this more than the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica (2004). While the re-imagined Galactica was dark and probably a more realistic portrayal of human behavior, this original version of BSG is more fun to watch. It was like a Stargate or Star Trek show. Considering that it was made in 1978, the visual effects were pretty good. Also, every character was enjoyable to watch, except for maybe Boxey who I thought was kind of annoying. I especially liked Starbuck and Cassi. Dirk Benedict's Starbuck character is very similar to his A-Team character. I wish they had made the Cylons a bit more threatening. They were slow walking tin cans that almost anybody could outrun. And their aim wasn't too good either. Like Firefly, this is another sci-fi series that was canceled too soon after the first season but the characters are likable and the show provides some good escapism.

S.R. Dipaling I didn't catch this in its first run. I'm not really certain why: I was seven at the time,getting drawn into anything SciFi(well,OK,mostly "Buck Rogers",but I was becoming familiar with "Star Trek" and "Star Wars",too),and this show had anything and everything that Sci-Fi was supposed to have:space ships of every kind,lasers,droids,warp engines,planetary systems,galaxies,humanity versus menacing technology and/or aliens,etc.What I DO know is that when this show was off the air for a little over a year,I ran across this in syndication(one season on the air and syndication! I never knew that could happen before)on a Kansas City independent TV station(back when those existed)and I was intrigued. A year or two later,and that same station re-ran the shows on Saturday afternoons and I was hooked. Never mind the cheesy,superficial dialog,or semi-pretentious character motivations or plot lines,this show had a compelling story(i.e. rag-tag group of survivors from a distant planet inhabited by HUMANS,who escaped annihilation from a group of overdeveloped droids,seeking an outreaching,possibly mythic land of relative peoples...wait for it...EARTH!),a regal theme song(Thank you Los Angeles Philharmonic!)and a fertile though line for the show's run(see the last part of the first quality). A largely handsome cast(among them Richard Hatch,Dirk Benedict,Terry Carter,Laurette Spang,Sarah Rush,Maren Jensen,Herb Jefferson jr.)headed by none other than Lorne Greene are able to make the action move along with the swiftness necessary of any good action-adventure series. I'd wondered,for some years after I'd first watched this,why the show had only one season's worth of shows(also,how come a handful of eps where the said group of humans actually make it TO Earth is somehow MIA)when it seemed to have great reception AND managed to secure a cult history of fan following. Then I ran across a 2000 SciFi network 'behind the Series" documentary about the show,and it gave me all I needed to know. The show,despite its very strong ratings and reasonably good reception,simply ran out of money to continue producing their episodes which,for their day,were quite high tech. Plus,the network,ABC,didn't seem to be particularly willing to bankroll anything Science fiction,so minus backing,the show's producers had to fold,re-configuring briefly with "Galactica 1980" before completely dissolving.In short,a fantastic little sci-fi project whose aspirations were pretty high for its time. The series that was re-imagined for SciFi network six years ago has plenty of advantages that this show didn't have(I still have yet to see it,but I hear it's very good),but this one lays out great groundwork. If I run across these shows again,I think I just might give it another look.