...and it SUCKS!!!!
They don't even both with "futuristic" costumes beyond the military folks. It's all regular ol' 2003 outfits for some reason.
There is no plot.
You see cylons twice - once at the beginning and once in a museum. The "7 of 9" rip-off cylon is mostly in Baltar's subconscious.
The new Cylon raiders look like Batman's flyer with a big Cylon head on the front.
To make up for days when, obviously, they didn't have enough time for coverage, they'll have talking scenes where the camera just 360's around the actors as they yammer and yammer and yammer on.
There's about five or six "sets" and you never feel like you're "on" the Galactica. It's truly hard to suspend your disbelief. It feels like you're on the Star Trek "ride" in Vegas or on re-constituted "SG-1" sets.
IT'S BOOOOOOORING!!!! Like, "Children of Dune" boring. NOTHING HAPPENS. Even when the Cylons attack the planet, all you get are some silly CG mushroom clouds and a newsreport that clicks off. There is NO scope. You never get the idea that "humanity" is in peril.
The only thing interesting is that the ships - Cylons and Colonials alike - can blink in and out of hyperspace. That and the Cylon Raider missiles leave smoke trails through space, so it looks cool when they fire about a dozen torpedos at once.
Beyond that, the miniseries is languid and rather dull. I'll put up a full review later, but remember "Robocop: Prime Directives?" That's basically what this is with an "Earth: Final Conflict" feel.
They don't even both with "futuristic" costumes beyond the military folks. It's all regular ol' 2003 outfits for some reason.
There is no plot.
You see cylons twice - once at the beginning and once in a museum. The "7 of 9" rip-off cylon is mostly in Baltar's subconscious.
The new Cylon raiders look like Batman's flyer with a big Cylon head on the front.
To make up for days when, obviously, they didn't have enough time for coverage, they'll have talking scenes where the camera just 360's around the actors as they yammer and yammer and yammer on.
There's about five or six "sets" and you never feel like you're "on" the Galactica. It's truly hard to suspend your disbelief. It feels like you're on the Star Trek "ride" in Vegas or on re-constituted "SG-1" sets.
IT'S BOOOOOOORING!!!! Like, "Children of Dune" boring. NOTHING HAPPENS. Even when the Cylons attack the planet, all you get are some silly CG mushroom clouds and a newsreport that clicks off. There is NO scope. You never get the idea that "humanity" is in peril.
The only thing interesting is that the ships - Cylons and Colonials alike - can blink in and out of hyperspace. That and the Cylon Raider missiles leave smoke trails through space, so it looks cool when they fire about a dozen torpedos at once.
Beyond that, the miniseries is languid and rather dull. I'll put up a full review later, but remember "Robocop: Prime Directives?" That's basically what this is with an "Earth: Final Conflict" feel.
