I do believe this is my 5th
Battlestar Galatica DVD Marathon, but it has been well over 5 years since I last watched it and I'm glad I waited a bit longer to revisit this again. It made watching
Season 1 all the more better. It seemed fresher than I remember it to be and it definitely made me appreciate how fantastic the writing is. This is whipsmart, with great foresight to what's coming. With so much crap on TV these days, it just makes the end product here all the more amazing. This is some deep, thought provoking stuff here that uses Religion in a way that I haven't seen before or since. They got the right balance of Religion without it ever seeming heavy-handed or preachy. Along with a firm idea of where they are taking the story line, they also give us incredible characters to take us on the journey. Every single character, big or small has a very interesting story to tell. Some will get theirs in later seasons, but the set up here is great.
We were talking yesterday about what was once a great Network in
SyFy and how since the ending of
BSG, everything has become garbage. Revisiting
Season 1 now just blows my mind in how much they were able to pull off on a weekly basis and how far
SyFy has tumbled over the years. I don't know the dollar amount that each episode was budgeted at, but from the looks of it, it was a lot. And if it wasn't a lot of money, then they had the best Set Designers ever in producing Grade A imagery. Love the actors that populate
BSG, especially
Edward James Olmos, Mary McDonnell, Katee Sackhoff, Grace Park, Tricia Helfer and
James Callis, who by the way it still the best character (
Dr. Balter) ever for the show. I had forgotten just how good and how damn funny the character is. Definitely worth a
Buy. I own it for obvious reasons and
Season 1 is a great opening shot for the remainder of the series. FYI, awesome cliffhanger and one that totally shocked me the first time I saw it.