Battlestar Galactica
The new version of Battlestar Galactica, which will be entering its fourth and final season come October
2007, isn’t like any other science fiction one has ever seen. Quite often, it seems to be more of a television soap opera than a science fiction show; if it weren’t
happening on a spaceship, one might think that’s exactly what it is.
Imagine that human civilization has a cataclysmic event occurs that wipes out 99 5/1,000,000th of the entire civilization? Then imagine that it wasn’t a
natural event, but some entity did it on purpose, and now they’re trying to get rid of you. And yet, even with all of that, you’re still trying to hang on to some
semblance of society while running for your life.
That’s the entire premise of Battlestar Galactica, and I understand it was also the premise of the original series, which I never saw because I didn’t want to see Ben
Cartwright of Bonanza fame
wearing that goofy uniform. In this version, we have Edward James
Olmos, whom I’ve always liked, yet wondered if he would ever play a role where he’d put more than three words together (remember
Miami Vice?), in the lead role as
Admiral William Adamo, and Mary McDonnell as the president, though, at the present time, the president
by de facto, since she’d lost an election she tried to rig, but is still more presidential than the guy who won, then somehow lost because he was incompetent and
allowed,
