"The world ended with no warning, and all that was left … was hope.
The Cylons were created by the people of the Twelve Colonies. Intelligent robots, they were used as slaves and soldiers to fight humanity's wars. But the Cylons became sentient and they rebelled. Man and machine fought to a bloody stalemate, then the Cylons withdrew to a remote region of space.
A truce between the Twelve Colonies and the Cylons lasted for 40 tense and silent years. Each year, on the anniversary of the treaty-signing, humanity sent an envoy to the neutral ground of Armistice Station to meet with a Cylon envoy. For 39 years, no Cylon envoy came.
Then, on the 40th anniversary, a stunning blond — a Cylon in human form — met the human envoy … moments before the Cylons vaporized the station and launched a genocidal attack on the Twelve Colonies.
In one devastating day, billions of human lives were consumed by nuclear fires. Only those souls fortunate enough to be aboard starships were able to band together and escape and flee into deep space, led by the sole surviving Colonial warship, the battlestar Galactica.
The Galactica and its crew seemed to be unlikely saviors for humanity's fewer than 50,000 desperate survivors. The ship was old and had been about to be decommissioned and turned into a museum when the Cylon attack occurred. In the aftermath its commanding officer, William Adama, found himself responsible for safeguarding the last remnants of the human race.
Meanwhile, the annihilation of the Colonial government on Caprica resulted in the succession of Laura Roslin, the Secretary of Education, to the presidency. Driven by prophetic visions and political necessity, she set the fleet upon a quest that will take it into the farthest reaches of unexplored space … in search of the mythical, lost "13th colony" — Earth."
Not only is this a series with all sorts of mythology interwoven into it's plot, the Gods like Aphrodite, Jupiter, etc are commonly worshiped by the 12 colonies, but it plays on things like the lost 12 tribes of Israel, a Christlike figure and the idea of one true god as a rebellious sect of the surviving remnants of humanity. This show has everything from issues of racism, terrorism, mythology, etc, but each of the characters were also masterfully created and executed by the cast. At times you love them, and then you hate them. The complexity of each character and their role in trying to save what was left of the human race keeps you watching episode after episode. I LOVE THIS SHOW! There are still episodes that my husband and I talk about all the time.
QUESTION: WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON BATTLESTAR GALLACTICA?
Watch it and I know you will love it just as much as me and my husband, and all the people we know who have also been captivated by this remarkable series revived from the 1980's original.
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