Battlestar Galactica - The Complete Series DVD & Blu-ray

From the Guardian...

There are still (foolish) people who refuse to watch this on the grounds that a) It's like that dumb show from the 1970s or b) It's not enough like that dumb show from the 1970s.

Both groups are seriously missing out because the revamped Galactica might just be one of the finest shows television has ever produced.

Taking the bare bones of the original, it places humanity on the endangered species list in the opening miniseries, when 12 colony planets are attacked by the Cylons (a robot race mankind created decades previously), reducing humanity to around 50,000 souls. In this version, there are no aliens or goofy, episodic helping-out-a-planet-in-peril plots.

In fact, other than having created robots and having discovered a way to travel faster than light, they're not too different from us. They smoke, drink, use telephones, listen to the radio, have ill-considered sex and argue. A lot.

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