Ronster said:
Jane Seymour what a Beauty!!!
She still is.
I really liked the classic as a kid, although the TV Series was not shown here until the late 80s.
But nuBSG just blew me away. If I may quote myself (from here: http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/2ndBSG-a-review-and-analysis-of-season-3-the-finale-Caprica-observations-Spoilers/post/543564/ ):
TK-949 said:
Although I don't believe a God exists, I'm fascinated by storys based on religion and/or god. Like the movie "The Prophecy", or "Supernatural" or the book "The Jesus-Video" by Andreas Eschbach (I don't know if it's available in other languages than German).
But the God-Theme in BSG was never such a great aspect to me.
Since the classic BSG was an action show, while the storys and characters stays hollow all the time, the new BSG is a character-show.
I've never seen a sci-fi-show before, that got so deeply into the characters as BSG. As a fan of Star Trek, my favorite show was DS9, since they tried to give the characters more depth. But they failed, because of the episodic storylines. In Season 4 there was this episode "Hard Time", where O'Brien is imprisoned for 20 years in a virtual prison. In real time he stayed there only a few hours. At the end of the episode he tried to commit suicide, because of his (not real) memories. But in the next episode O'Brien was all love-peace-and-happines again. That's what bothered me.
Not so BSG. You see the rise and fall of characters and always the question comes to mind 'what would you do?' (regarding Admiral Cain, f.e.)
The first two seasons of BSG were awesome. Great storys, action and pacing were good, and ending season 2 with a "One-year-later" was fascinating. Then came season 3. The "getting-off-new-caprica" storyline was okay, but then the season began to suck. Stuffed with filler episodes like "Hero" it got more and more boring. But suddenly the last 15 minutes of the last episode of season 3 made it worth to watch it all. 15 minutes that saved a whole season.
Then came "Razor". A very good story, a mysterious new character, and an old hybrid prophesying all of season 4 (that's why you should watch "Razor" after season 3 and not in the middle of season 2), in a very cryptic way, of course. And "classic" cylons in action, yay.
Season 4 was awesome again. The series ended with a solution I never expected. Okay, maybe it was God who led Kara's hands but it could've been a coincidence, or whatever.
To sum it up (I said it before and I'll say it again): in my eyes BSG is the BEST. SCIFI. SHOW. ON. TV. EVER.