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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.

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.

Yep, I thought the same thing. It crept into my mind during the "Galactica Control to Viper on approach... Captain Adama, call the ball" scene.

To me the story felt like the human colonies many hundreds of years in the future since the original show. Now Caprica is no longer a colony but heavily populated plantet, a whole civilization spanning several planets.

It's as if the cylon war was many years ago, much more than just 40. There would still be almost half the population who could remember that the cylons infiltrated computers during the attack. If the humans won, it would be a while before this lesson was forgotten, I believe much more than 40 years. Instead in my impression it feels more like 200 years since the last war. No one is alive who would have direct experience with the cylons. So much time has gone by that people would be getting lazy, wanting more computer automation, with no voices to the contrary save that in books and tapes. I don't think the Baltar presented could exist within the living memory of men after the first cylon war. He would be run out of town on a rail, so to speak. I believe it would take more time before people would listen to positive advocacy of computer automation.

As for the rest, it could work in this setting. The antiquated battleship, the new systems all interconnected. No experience with the machines, etc.