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I kind of liked it, and think I am going to watch tonight to see how it turned out.

I thought the same things about political correctness. Okay, they have a female Starbuck, Adama's hispanic, Boomer's asian, and Colonel Tigh is white. Things are all mixed up. :) Weren't the cylons a creation of aliens?

They could have made it a lot worse, and maybe it works after all. The whole father and son thing over a lost brother was a bit formulaic and you'd figure they would have learned not to have too many interconnected systems on their warships. But in a way their reliance on antiquated technology to fight the cylons is interesting. Too much automation weakens humanity, but automation makes things easy. Baltar is different too. He's not the big "I have humanity" kind of traitor. He's the "thinks with the wrong head" kind of traitor. Because of selfishness he destroys humanity. I can't imagine this Baltar in one of the alien ships laughing and humans dying. Maybe this is better, I don't know.

Isn't this show, like 40 years later? Isn't the new Starbuck actually a different person with the same call name?

I thought the same things about political correctness. Okay, they have a female Starbuck, Adama's hispanic, Boomer's asian, and Colonel Tigh is white. Things are all mixed up. :) Weren't the cylons a creation of aliens?

I believe in the original, Apollo gave a speech to Boxey, I think, telling him who the Cylons were. It went something like this: The Cylons were actually an ancient reptilian race that were dying out, and they created the robot cylons in man's image because they believed it was an improvement over their own bodies, and so that they would have a legacy to leave behind.

There was something not BG about the show last night, and it took until browsing through usenet until I figured out what it was. This show doesn't feel like it's depicting a lost colony of humans, with Egyptian/ancient references, as much as it feels like it's showing our Earth hundreds of years in the future. It doesn't feel elsewhere, which is something us scifi geeks love. For example: Apollo/Starbuck/Boomer being a callsign instead of a name, the references to the presidency, the civilian attire.

That said, I still enjoyed it. I expected it to suck eggs. It didn't suck eggs. I noticed on usenet that people were complaining about it's lack of showing the cylon attack, which is something I think is the show's strength at this point. Although I do agree that the pace of this first half was too slow.