Friday, September 4, 2009

Battlestar Galactica


Yes, it's sci-fi. And yes, it's romance! Tons of romance in fact.

Here is Wikipedia's synopsis:
The story arc of Battlestar Galactica is set in a distant part of the galaxy, where a civilization of humans live on a series of planets known as the Twelve Colonies. In the past, the Colonies had been at war with a cybernetic race known as the Cylons. With the unwitting help of a human named Gaius Baltar, the Cylons launch a sudden ambush on the Colonies, laying waste to the planets and devastating their populations. The handful of human survivors flee into space aboard any spacecraft they can reach. Of all the Colonial Fleet, the Battlestar Galactica appears to be the only military capital ship that survived the attack. Under the leadership of famed military leader Commander William "Bill" Adama, the Battlestar Galactica and its crew take up the task of leading the small fugitive fleet of survivors into space in search of a fabled refuge known as Earth.

A friend of my hubby's lent us the first season of Battlestar Galactica on DVD for our vacation in the U.P. in July. Every night after putting our boys to sleep, we curled up on the bed with my laptop and watched episode after episode of this great series.

We raced home from our vacation and immediately called hubby's friend to get the remaining seasons of the complete series. And now sadly we have only a few episodes left to watch. We've begun to pace ourselves, only watching one or two episodes at a night as the remaining ones dwindle.

So do yourself a favor this weekend, and get your hands on the pilot of BG. It was initially broadcast as a miniseries on the Sci Fi Channel, and enormous popularity caused it to be picked up by the network as a series.

3 comments:

Ingrid Edwards said...

Isn't it a bummer when you realize that you are getting to the end of a series. I know exactly what you mean. I also feel this way when I read a book series and it ends.

Great job Andrea!

Will Dickinson said...

We have finally finished the series and I miss it (both because it is over and because it was a great way to spend time with Andrea :-).

However I'm glad that they didn't bleed it to death by making the quality suffer just to make more seasons. Sometimes, with a book or movie or tv-series, the characters are done and there is no story left to tell. Even though the readers/viewers will miss it, the story must end.

Anonymous said...

But wasn't Rick Springfield in BG?

~M~