Letters to the Editor
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We don't know for sure that #6 is only a hallucination.
Baltar may be hallucinating #6, or she may really have put something in his brain back on Caprica; we still don't know for sure.
And I agree with an earlier post: DS9 was a smarter show than Galactica.
However, Lost in Space still rules for sheer entertainment value. Oh, the pain, the pain!
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The original was more fun!
Even with the "cheesy" sets and crypto-Mormon motifs, the original series is still my favorite. Then again, I still have my models of the original series' ships so I'm kind of biased.
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Number Six
Baltar may be hallucinating #6, or she may really have put something in his brain back on Caprica; we still don't know for sure.
Don't forget, when we meet the resurrected Six, we discover she has her own Baltar stuck in her head, offering similar advice. Either they're both hallucinating, or maybe they both had something put in their heads.
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Original wins in New vs Original
I own the DVD set of the original and have watched it recently. Richard Hatch and Dirk Benedict were very good actors and had great chemistry (a great buddy pairing).
Dirk Benedict blows away Katee Sackoff. Come on her character is a poor shadow of the original Starbuck and a ripoff of Terry Farrell's Dax from DS9. And Terry Farrell was a helluv a lot better actress than K.S. Or perhaps a ripoff of Aeryn Sun from Farscape, and KS can't hold a candle to Claudia Black.
Not to mention the actor playing "Apollo" is so stiff I wondered if he had his whole face botoxed.
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@Sunspot & Rocket Scientist
Sunspot, good point. Personally, I think they're connected somehow, and it's not a hallucination.
Rocket Scientist: C'mon, dude. I loved the original too, but it was a total goof. Granted, nothing in the remake quite equals the roaming-eyed Cylons intoning, "By your command."
Well, maybe it's an unfair comparison. The original was obviously meant to be campy fun, while the remake is deadly serious, so we're comparing two completely different things. Still, I can't forgive the original for that idiotic episode where they let the women become Viper pilots, and on their very first mission, these greenhorn gals wiped the floor with the Cylons. Still, you had to love their "Love Boat" 70's groovy good looks.
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Nitpicking
Chief Tyrol's first name is Galen. Nicholas is his son.
That is all.
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There've been some very good guest actors of BSG
Dean Stockwell, John Heard, and Michelle Forbes are just a few.
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One nit to pick
I love the show and find it to be easily the smartest one on TV for a long time. However, one embarrassing little thing that, thankfully, they've moved away from...
In the first few episodes, when they're having sex, Six's spinal column glows. You'd think a cylon's partner would notice something like that. Do Mormons not do it doggy-style or what?
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Niche cable channel
If you hadn't noticed, the Scifi Channel is still "a niche cable channel known mostly for "Stargate-SG1" and "Star Trek" reruns." Nothing about that has changed, except for the addition of ghost hunting programs.
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Last cylon
Really? The first thing I noticed about the poster for the new season is that Dualla is missing... Interesting...
But I was pretty disappointed to hear that they decided the final five on the fly as well.
>>>-- In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Moore claims that the final Cylon is not on display in the promotional poster for the fourth season. Since the poster contains almost every major character in the "Galactica" universe, including Starbuck, Adama, Apollo and Roslin, this leaves us with either an as-yet-unknown Cylon character or a supporting character Cylon -- or Moore was leading us on. <<<
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Guess what happens when they arrive at earth
If BG parallels our history, then I would suspect that the show is set in the future since Earth is humanity's homeworld and not Kobol. Considering that most migrations are made under pressure of some sort, the ancestors of the colonies probably left Earth for Kobol because they had no other choice. With their strange blend of pagan religions, one might speculate that religious persecution played a role in their decision to exit earth.
If anything, their arrival on Kobol probably amplified the disputes over religion between the colonists. Unfortunately, it is all too easy for the persecuted to turn into the persecutor. Not surprisingly, then, Kobol was riven with internecine conflict resulting in yet another migration - this time to the colonies. One wonders if the "thirteenth" tribe that went to earth really represented those who were sick of the whole thing and wanted to return home. If so, then you have to wonder what kind of reception the BG fleet is going to get when they arrive at Earth.
Just imagine that you are a citizen of Earth and here pops out of space a remnant from a very nasty part of your history and they bring the Cylons along with them. Would you be happy to welcome them home? Or, would you think it time to complete the work the Cylons began when they nuked the colonies? To put it in a modern context, would we be glad to see tens of thousands of people from a movement that was so divisive and bloody that they were forced to leave the country show up out of the blue on our borders wanting to get back in.
Who knows - perhaps the reference to the tribe that returned to earth as the "lost" tribe is a veiled reference to how they were wiped out when they finally came back. I just hope that BG doesn't cop out and give us some pablum about the BG survivors being the ancestors of the ancient Egyptians.