Yeah I bought the season 1 box set but was disappointed. OK its was far...far far better than that abortion known as Galactica 80 (whoever came up with that effort should be shot! - flying motorbikes and "superscouts" for cryin out lound!).
Wtaching the original Galactica remined me of how good it seemed at the time and how dated it is now - an SF show firmly stuck in the 80's with mock disco music, Dynasty style "big hair" etc.
Plus - and this I now hate - the bad science. On more than one occasion, it was clearly stated that the Galactica would have to go to lightspeed which it had not done for a while (see Living Legend, An Experiment in Terror and The Hand of God). So, if the Galactica and the "rag tag fleet" are plodding along at sub light speed, how in hell was the fleet able to leave their native galaxy and travel across to a new one? It was made clear that they had done this.
Now, at Warp 9.95 it would take USS Voyager 70 years to cross about 1/3 of our Galaxy...and Galactica goes between galaxies at sublight in a few weeks....
Now, have you seen the NEW Galactica mini-series!
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Despite my original reservations I found this to be a superb - and in many ways a superior - reinvention. Whilst I am still not sure about makingb Starbuck's character female, the notion that the bizzare names of the original - Apollo, Starbuck, Jolly, Boomer, Greenbean etc are call signs made a lot of sense.
I hear that they are proceeding with a full series . Yay! Hopefully we will see an SF resurgance (if only they would finish off Space Above and Beyond).
Interesting anecdote. Watch the miniseries for the scene where the President is given the news she has cancer. A lot of ships are flying overhead. One of them is the Serenity from Joss Weldon's series Firefly!