Battlestar Galactica

I have been slacking with my reviews of my recently consumed media so I shall be posting lots of reviews over the next few weeks... hopefully! 
So to kick us off a TV series I recently bought and watched, the recent reboot of the Battlestar Galactica tv program. As a science fiction fan this was exactly what I was looking for, a good serial program that has a unique story, questions beliefs and creates an interesting historical world for the audience (me) to get feverishly lost within. 


I watched all of the episodes over a month or so and really enjoyed the arcs throughout all of the series and think it filled the space left by programs such as Stargate, Dollhouse, Firefly, Terminator the Sarah Connor Chronicles as well as many other countless and unfortunately cancelled or naturally ended series. I felt it had an appealing cinematic feeling that was well complimented by Bear McReary's score. It was largely well acted and had an interesting if not obvious subtext of racial harmony. I felt the development in the series is what makes it unique and is the most interesting thing about the whole thing. Once one goal or equilibrium has been set it is explored to a satisfying extent before the audience can get bored the few things that seem obvious are blown away by a double episode. Then a new equilibrium is set ready for exploitation and shattering. 


I really enjoyed the whole series and think that the cinematic serial is in many ways the way forward for television. I look forward to Caprica the spin off series and am somewhat hopeful it will amuse me for a week or so.