Each season Battlestar Galactica, which ranks

Revised “Battlestar Galactica”-one of the greatest and most ambitious sci-fi television shows that have ever been aired. When “Galactica” begins, humanity lives on 12 colonial planets named in the zodiac sign: Capri, Tauron, etc. About 50 years ago, humanity created robotic servants, called tylons that arose and war.

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When the series begins, the tanks (which went into human forms) return and destroy 12 colonies. 50,000 or near the survivor run away in the fleet of the spacecraft guarded by the Battlestar military ship, the galaxy. Led by William Adam (Edward James Olmos) and President Laura Roslin (Mary McDonnel), the survivors are looking for the 13th colony: Earth.

The staff of the creators Ronald D. Mo and David Ek rebooted the short original “Galactica” of 1978, pulling the cheese in favor of drama and political resonance. Moore, which broke into television writing on “Star Trek: The Next Generation” received To go through your frustrations with the often too safe spelling on “Trek”, doing “Battlestar Galactica”.

On “Battlestar Galactica” the characters were killed and usually remained dead. (If they were lucky enough to become a tylon that could load into a new building.) The characters encountered complex solutions and rarely got simple ways, and the choice they made at these critical moments would have the consequences.

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Initially, the broadcast on the sci-fi (later Syfy), “Battlestar Galactica” began with a two-hour pilot mini-series in 2003. He then ran four seasons/76 episodes (plus two television films) from 2005 to 2009. Efforts to make “Battlestar Galactica” Spin-Off, like “Caprica”, not quite a gentlemanBut the series itself was the final success. However, any long -standing TV show will have highs and lows. How do four seasons “Battlestar Galactica” takes the worst for the better?

“Battlestar Galactica” was not a show designed with a hard plan ahead of time. This does not mean that the writers wing it. Look Bible Ronald D. Moore: There are many details about the heroes and the world. But as for the instructions, history and how secrets will be solved, the show began only with recommendations and opportunities. The writers asked questions about themselves and the audience, but they sought to find these answers in the journey rather than start from the planned destination.

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The disadvantages of this approach are found with cracks in the “Battlestar Galactica” of the 3 season. That’s wrong badBut this is the most comfortable show.

Now the 3rd season opens one of the highest highs of the show. In the four -part arc “New Caprick” people are presented, settling on the new planet, living under the occupation of the tylon. The presenters create an uprising and escape from their occupiers, and the episodes for this are gloomy and tireless. The fifth episode of the “staff” season is a strong epilogue about the trial of people who cooperated with the tylons.

After that, however, the season follows mainly on independent stories, where the acting is supported. This approach leads to several excellent episodes, such as “unfinished business” (where the Galactica crew holds a boxing tournament to blow a couple), and “dirty hands” (about the efforts of the union on one of the work ships). But together, it seems that the show slows down when it is struggling to record the check.

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Season 3 also presents the mystery of the “last five” tylons whose identity is revealed in the finals of the “Crossroads” season. No spoilers, but this story and its answers ended with a more trouble than they cost.

The last season “Battlestar Galactica” is probably “the most separate and controversial series. After a more episodic approach of the 3rd season, season 4 returned to a strong serialization. The writers finally hacked their grand plan, and each episode was a puzzle.

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From the mini-series were hints and anticipation of something supernatural in “Galactica”. The tylons were worshiped by God and claimed that he was beaten by everything. There was a plausible refusal – up to 4 season when God’s hand began to interfere more noticeably. The events that can be caused only by fate are impossible, and it became clear that the characters were players in the game that God and His angels played many times earlier.

Not every fan liked this unambiguous change, and the final of the “Daybreak” series is contradictory. I confess my feelings in 4 season a little abnormal. I think some history decisions were embarrassed or erroneous, but I was still closed and enjoyed myself throughout the season.

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Season 4 “Battlestar Galactica” is a season greater than its episodes. All ideas are fulfilled the way they might be, it’s just a matter of taste if you liked these ideas. Except for one story all Like: the arc of a rebellion played in the episodes “oath” and “blood on the scales”. When I talked to the writer Mark Veriden about this arcHe noted that the writers’ room is restrained in this story until the very end, because, really, the rebellion needs a huge moment of breaking. Waiting for the end of the tail of the series, when the heroes experienced despair after the bottomless despair, because the uprising was absolutely the right bell.

When I think of “Battlestar Galactica”, it is easier to remember the highs than the minimum. Season 2 is the season that benefits the most in memory.

Unlike the first season, the 2 season “Battlestar Galactica” was broken into two ten-episodal halves that came out separately. (The season, the premiere premiere in July 2005, went on a break in September, then returned in January 2006.) The first half is higher than the reproach. It supports the impulse from the cliff 1 season with the seven -time storyline. The front half ends with “Pegasus”, one of the best episodes of the show. The fleet finds that another battlester has survived the attack on the tsil but His commander Admiral Elena Cain (Michel Forbes) cannot be trusted.

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Then the 2 season is a little bit on the posterior half, getting into a very “star hike”, similar to some episodes. In the second half, the second half decides the plot of Pegasus when the two -story “resurrection ship” was opened, and then goes to autonomous episodes.

“Scars” (about the fact that the Sarbuk dog “decisive cylon”) is a strong episode, and “loaded” gives an inner look into the tylons. Conversely, “epiphany” cures President Roslin Cancer overlooking Technobabble Magic, which promised the show no The use and “black market” is often considered one of the worst episodes of the show.

However, the season ends with a strong two -storey “severity”. Since the presidential election between Roslin and the Balta is emerged, the fleet is detected on a residential planet. They have to decide whether to settle there or continue to look for the promised land of the earth. Season 2 season is somehow even more strongly than the 1st season. This all means that a few poor episodes of “Battlestar Galactica” 2 season is remembered as simple inequalities in overall pleasure.

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I think the pieces of the later season “Battlestar Galactica” is better than the first season: Pegasus, New Caprica and Moutiny Arc – it’s absolutely the best series. But overall the package, the first season “Battlestar Galactica” is the most violent and consistent. It is also the shortest of only 13 episodes (or 15, which consider the mini-series). Because of this, the writers and the crew were able to clarify each episode to become the strongest.

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There is no bad episode in Battlestar Galactica. Writers and actors instantly found their basis, undoubtedly because they developed ordinary pilot fractures on the mini-series, not in the season.

Even though “Battlestar Galactica” sometimes fought with a big picture, it never fought with the reflection which of their characters and what their daily lives and conflicts were. The first episode “33” is just as exemplary and confident how the series’s premiere may be. The galaxy and its fleet are in the running of the tylons that appear every 33 minutes and make the fleet “jump” faster than light every time. When the episode begins, the pursuit lasts all day, and the crew is almost in the rupture.

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Even the weakest episode of the season “Thigh Me Up, Thigh Me Down” is a fun experiment. The writers have experimented with how brazen the show can be, and the results are really funny, even if the show never becomes so stupid.

The Battlestar Galactica mini-series burned with a promise, and 1 has proved that the team could put on it.