The remake of Battlestar Galactica is a much deeper and more thoughtful show than the original show from the 70s. Edward Olmos is a huge presence, clearly in command in every scene. The cast is diverse and gels well together. There are multiple subplots that ask questions about love, trust, duty, and the nature of humanity.

It started ok when the plot was kept in line, but then this show went from sci-fi to religious fantasy. The plot didn't thicken, it became a total diversified mess. I thought Caprica was trillions of miles away and there was no way back to it, until the writers decided that if you steal an alien ship which has far advanced technology you can go back to Caprica just like going to your neighbors house. I hate when writers mess up the plot with gobbledygook like that. Note to show writers, when you pepper the plot with gobbledygook, you introduce many plot holes. Watchers, then, start to think this show is a complete moronic joke. And then we are introduced to religion in this show. I guess the machines are more religious than humans, can you believe this? It is humans who believe in many gods (Polytheism) in the advanced age of science, versus machines that believe in only one God (Monotheism). Let's look at some examples of idiotic events that occurred. Starbuck gets stuck on this one planet. The rescue team can't find her. Starbucks discovers the crashed alien ship not far from her. In the matter of minutes, while having a broken leg and losing oxygen, she figures out how to fly the alien ship and make it back to the fleet just as they were to leave her behind and jump. This kind of nonsense makes me cringe. Why couldn't the plot be much simpler? An alien ship got shutdown. It was discovered by the rescue ship, it got picked up and brought back to Galactica for reverse engineering. It's simple, to the point, and close to how it would have happened in the real world. But no, the writers needed to do something uncanny and magical.Then there is all this highly unnecessary drama in this show. Everyone hates one another, everyone got some psychological issues, no one gets along. When you have a common enemy, you tend to bond together, but that's not happening in this show. The humans are as bad to each other as they are to the machines. In fact, they probably treat the machines, their biggest enemy, with more respect than they treat each other. It's amazing. There are only 50,0000 of them left in the universe, and they are slaughtering each other. Note to writers, please keep psychological twisted drama to a minimum when it comes to space sci-fi type shows. How hard can it be? Half way through season 2 I completely gave up on this show. Too much drama, too much psychological and religious nonsense, too much plot holes. This show started with strategy, survival, but now it turned into a giant religious and psychological mess. It's more religious than Lord of the Rings, accept it's happening far far away in space far far into the future. Amazing.

Ronald D Moore had just finished 7 years writing Deep Space 9, after a few years of writing some of the greatest episodes of Star Trek: Next Generation. But this was his show. His and Glen Larson's, however much Glen actually participated in this creation.One thing Ron knows how to do is tell a human based tale about war. Deep Space 9 was WWII in space, But Battlestar Galactica, well that was a challenge well beyond Star Trek. And Ron was the best person to do it.First off, this was based on Glen Larson's original Film and TV show. As such, Moore kept all of the elements, of the Caprican Government, the 12 tribes, the Lost tribe, and the Cylons. The look of the Battlestar was not the magnificently clean and polished one from 1978, we really got to see how repeated battle damage would affect even the most powerful battleship, when there is no Drydock available. And to keep losing people and ships, the show starts with 45000 survivors, and this census keeps getting smaller as the show goes on. But what this remake does is not paint bad guys black and good guys white, or Cylons silver even. Gaius Balthar is not the same evil crook played by "Kor" (John Calicos), here, he is played by the much more complex James Callis, and in a nod to Deep Space 9, the character reminds you of Dr. Julian Subatoy Bashir. From Deep Space 9. They even share similar characteristics, In DS9, Bashir was revealed to be a genetically improved human, like Khan. In BSG, Balthar is proved to be very intelligent, he thinks of himself as special, where Bashir has been made special. And both characters portray a classical ineptness in social graces. Alex Siddig could have easily played Balthar, and the reverse, Callis could have been Bashir. Politics is an important topic in this show, both working and broken governments are shown. When the people elect a person not qualified to run things into the presidency, this mirrors our own sad state of affairs, and makes Ron Moore almost a prophet, he saw what was going to happen to us way back in 2004. Because it was starting even then. This show maybe gave Glen a chance to tell a lot of the BSG stories that never got told, because of only 2 seasons of the original BSG and Galactica 1980. The last episode of Galactica '90 even reveals a special destiny for Starbuck. Other than being on the A-Team later. Both Richard Benedict and Katee Sackhoff are mirror images of the same character. Both of them intrinsically attached to Apollo. Both of them Cigar chomping Hotshot Pilots, who have difficulty with Command.The one thing I was disappointing to see was the lack of any real Bug-Eyed Aliens in Galactica's jumps through space. According to the Trivia section, this was due to Ed Olmos, who wanted the show to be focused more on the Human interactions. Speaking of Olmos, his son Bodie plays the pilot "Hotdog". The "Alien" element has been replaced totally with the Cylon element, who were created by Man and rebelled against man. But there is a more ethereal plane in this show, there are religious aspects that are common to Men and Cylon. And the Cylons themselves have their own internal civil wars to deal with, in taking human form, they created a platform for argument and disagreement. So to replace the mystery of Aliens, there is a real well written Spiritual Mystery happening, especially in Season 4, which involves Balthar, President Roslin, and even Adama - Both Adamas. Starbuck is involved, as is "Boomers".The President image is real interesting, as Mary McDonnell was the president's wife in Independence Day, even has the same ultimate Fate. And she is shown making some very bad mistakes as well as great leadership decisions. And where Lorne Greene was always in command in the original, in this, the President and Adama both share power, and Adama is shown to make some very grievous errors as well.The first season takes up after the Miniseries, and the connection is seamless. As are the several other made for TV films that go along with this franchise. I'm glad they kept it on TV, else Hollywood filmmakers would have added "creative" changes that would have destroyed the continuity, just like what happened to Star Trek: The Next Generation in between "All Good Things" and "Generations". And Ron was involved with both of those, too.There is one real breath of fresh air that shows up in the Miniseries and in the show: Tricia Helfer, "Number Six" who has to be the tallest woman I've ever seen, not extremely beautiful, almost kind of plain. But she was remarkable in this, as she plays several different versions of herself. And look out for Lucy Lawless as well, as "Number Three". They pull the same trick with Lucy here as they did in "Xena", they make her appear much taller than she actually is. And it's effective.Edit: Unbelievably, we have Troll Fakeaccounts downvoting every positive review, for this show even. It's like they monitor every popular show in the world, ready to pounce with 20 #FAKEACCOUNTS to downvote you and bury your positive review while they upvote the "negatovefee" ones. IMDb needs to grow a pair and remove these Fakes. This ain't REDDIT, the "unhelpful" button shuld be removed, that would take the teeth away from these FRAKKERS.

Let's try to be fair to this show. Season one was amazing and breath of fresh air of originality. A bunch of artificial intelligent beings that looked like humans and possessed emotional, sexual and religious motivations. Wow! I loved it and naively I believed that they would continue.Boy, was I in for a massive disappointment.That opening at every episode with: "The Cylons were created by man. They evolved. They rebelled. There are many copies. And they have a plan." Spoiler alert: there was no plan! After the end of season 2 things just went from bad to...... what are they doing?? At the end, God solved everything with a magic song. The song was created by a woman who died, came back as an angel, has a hallucination of her dead father who plays his song on a piano which in turn is the coordinates to Earth... and no the song isn't kumbaya but for the way, things were going it could've been.And the "plan" the Cylons had which included genocide and the murder of billions of people, not to mention the countless numbers of rape, was so that Eve, a hybrid offspring of a Cylon and a human, can mate with a hairy smelly Neanderthal and create modern day humans.Oh, did I forget to mention that all this happens 150 000 years BCE? I kid you not. I literally spent the last five minutes of the final episode expecting the actors involved to come out and say that this was a gag reel and that the real ending would follow.