It's very well done. I remember the original with Richard Hatch, Dirk Benedict and Daddy Cartwright. The Cylons are super scary this time around. I'm impressed!
Jamie Bamber plays Apollo. In Horatio Hornblower on A&E, he played Archie, Horatio's best friend, in the first two seasons.
The thing that I don't get is why they had to make the Cylons less scary by saying that man had created them. Where the hell did that come from?
The Cylons originally were the robotic servants of a reptilian race called....the Cylons. But the robotic servants defeated their former masters in a great civil uprising. From then on out robotic Cylon life was to spread. The Cylon's soul purpose is to colonize and control the entire universe; eradicating any other life forms that get in their path. Man seems to be the sole lifeform that has been able to resist the Cylons thus far.
This angle would have been much spookier and would have allowed for a greater wealth of material if this mini series turned into a regular series.
The only thing I can think of is that doing it this way allows for a built in, pat way to defeat the Cylons. If man created them then man can think of a way to defeat them....and wrap it all up in 2 two hour episodes.