Galacticas

Recently on Edmonton AM on CBC Radio they started a segment called something like "talking point of the day" where they get listeners to call / email / text / tweet in with responses to the question.

On Thursday 1 March, the question was about who your 'heart-throb' was, since it was Justin Beiber's 18th birthday (a heart-throb of today's young), and Davy Jones (a heart-throb in the late 60's) had just passed away.

One of the radio personalities mentioned that Richard Hatch (from Battlestar Galactica) was her heart-throb).

Between hearing that, and on Tuesday 28 February playing a Battlestar Galactica board game, I decided to re-watch them again starting with the old 1978 series.... I am now on the last episode of Galactica 1980.

Soon after starting to watch the series, a friend mentioned to me how much he disliked Boxy always running off and getting into trouble.

As I was watching the series this time I didn't notice Boxy in all that many episodes, especially not with the story centering around him (at least not until Galactica 1980).

My complaint about Boxy is how quickly he forgot his real father and assumed Apollo as his father, and how quickly he seemed to accept the loss of his mother.... but perhaps the time between episodes was greater than I thought, yet not all that well defined.

My personal 'gripe' about the original Battlestar is more that they found the path to Earth very easily, almost too easily, and that there were still plenty of humans around - some that knew of the 12 colonies, and some that didn't.

I have been watching the series through Netflix (Canada), and it came as surprise to me that the last 3 episodes under Battlestar Galactica were actually suppose to be under Galactica 1980. I am not too sure what the reasons were Battlestar Galactica ended, but it did end on a cliff hanger - which ties into the start of Galactica 1980.

I can definitely see why Galactica 1980 didn't last long. Finding Earth on the first episode (albeit 30 years after the end of Battlestar Galactica), seemed kind of weak. Add to that their ability to time travel, and Dr. Zee being child prodigy that the fleet listens to all the time. Sure, part of the reason for Dr. Zee is explored in the final episode of Galactica 1980, the short lived (10 episode - or 7 according to my Netflix, first 3 were not repeated) series ended ends with mystery.
What also annoyed me was the idiocy of the time travel in the first 3 episodes. It almost appeared to be a show where Dillon and Troy/Boxy keep going back in time to stop Xaviar from changing Earth's past.


Now having said all that, and basing the next on what I remember about Battlestar Galactica 2004, I noticed that Battlestar Galactica 2004 had a few hints and extrapolations to the original series.
These include not just having some of the old props showing up in the new series (old Vipers, and Cylons). The most interesting thread that was picked up was the humanoid Cylons - shown only in "The Night the Cylons Landed"

Well now that the final episode of Galactica 1980 is over, time to start Battlestar Galactica 2004