"In fairness, some Freepers will be pissed that the show's heros are secular polytheists and the Cylons are religious judeo-christian monotheists."
LOL That was the only thing that bothered me about the whole deal.
I FINALLY watched the mini-series and the series premier yesterday. Six hours of pure Sci-Fi joy.
Points I am so happy with:
1. Hard Physics. The ships, missles, etc., behave consistently. The FTL travel is plausible.
2. Military logic in weaponry.
For example, human pilots are so 20th Century. They gave a very logical reason why they have human pilots --- in Vipers with analog guages, no less --- in that Cylons have the ability to infiltrate the most basic of computer systems.
Similarly, I was pleased to see "pilotless" (as in, no humanoid robot pilot) in the cylon fighters. Always seemed a bit silly to me for robots to mess with the SLOW AND BIG analog transfer/integration between a humanoid and traditional aircraft controls. Much more logical to stick the brain directly into the ship. (The explaination for the former being that the Cylons were designed to be human servants --- and only later abadoned the humanoid design when free of the yoke of their masters.)
Guided missles, use of nukes, etc. were similarly logical.
3. Hard issues --- e.g., shooting down civilian craft filled with nukes --- classic 9/11 issue; leaving craft without FTL travel behind (last line "May you rot in Hell for what you do today.").
4. I think No. 6 and/or Boomer may be in love with the Dr. and/or Boomer with her ECM (the guy who stayed on the ground). There is some tension between No. 6 and Boomer.
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