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[cabbitzilla]

Hrm. I've just finished Season 1. Overall... overall I'm quite impressed, to be honest. It came as no small surprise to discover that I was more attached to the hardware than I was to the actors in the various roles. The slightly revised Vipers are quite nice, the launch tube design was kept, the Galactica herself is the right basic shape, the new Base Stars kick all kinds of ass, and the revised mechanical Cylons are visually sleek (though reminiscent of the Terminators, but what the hell they were impressive too).

The Cylon fighters... well, I'm a bit less impressed with them. When I'm looking at biomechanical constructs, I expect to see the sleek malignance of H.R. Giger... not big lumps of squishy stuff easily ripped out and tossed aside. If it's truly linked to the machine, there is absolutely no need (or reason) to have manual controls. Nice implementation of a later hook, yes, but it got serious eyerolls.

Gaius Baltar. *snicker* 'Delightfully deranged' is what comes to mind. The cuts in and out of his mental visions are interesting, and the bits of conversation that overlap are highly amusing. Now why anyone trusts someone as visibly twitchy and off the rails as he is is anybody's guess, but it is fun. For a while. Gets a bit tiresome when it gets preachy, though. Still, having a madman as Vice President to a hallucinating religious nut President is oddly appropriate.

The gender flip on Starbuck was less of an issue than I'd anticipated; she does well in the role, even if she's a bit less of a wiseass than her male counterpart. Interesting note: When she's using the cane, she's holding it in the wrong hand. :p Cross-body support is what it's intended to be; when used on the same side as the injury it pulls the entire body off balance. Trust me on this one. Lots of folks make that mistake, it seems... I learned the hard way, and have a couple of interesting almost-scars to prove it.

Human-form Cylons. Hrm. Interesting concept, but it begins to lose coherency in the face of a technological society.... where duplicates would eventually be spotted and questions asked. The idea of command-triggered sleepers is one I've seen before in Babylon 5, and in other programs as well. I'm just not convinced that a mere 12 models would be diverse enough to do any real good. I'm nitpicking, I know, but that's been bugging me all along.

My biggest beef? The music. Without the martial anthemic strains shot through it, it just feels.... hollow. Little glissandos here and there was one of the reasons the original became popular; whether it was conscious or not, the cadences of the old music stirred the viewer, kept and held attention, demanded focus. The music used is generally very pretty, but I'd expect it more in a film version of Mists of Avalon.

Which reminds me... hey, meamgrimlock? Did that music ever get put up where I could get it? I can't remember. *sigh* Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most. Anyway, that's all from me at the moment. I'm defiantly avoiding reality.