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| Format | Multiple Formats, Blu-ray, AC-3, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Subtitled, Widescreen, Box set |
| Contributor | Edward James Olmos, Tricia Helfer, Michael Rymer, Mary McDonnell, James Callis |
| Language | English |
| Runtime | 12 hours and 36 minutes |
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One of the best shows on television looks better than ever as Battlestar Galactica: Season One arrives on Blu-ray™ Hi-Def. Relive all 13 thrilling episodes plus the four-hour miniseries that started it all in this four-disc set. When a surprise Cylon attack scatters the remnants of humanity throughout the galaxy, it’s up to steely President Laura Roslin (Mary McDonnell) and battle-hardened Commander William Adama (Edward James Olmos) to unite the desperate survivors and seek mankind’s only chance for a future, a mythical planet called Earth. Presented in 1080p with Dolby DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 and showcasing U-Control™ features that allow you to go deeper into the BSG universe, Battlestar Galactica: Season One on Blu-ray™ Hi-Def is gripping drama that explores the human condition at its worst…and its best.
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- Media Format : Multiple Formats, Blu-ray, AC-3, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Subtitled, Widescreen, Box set
- Run time : 12 hours and 36 minutes
- Release date : March 13, 2011
- Actors : Edward James Olmos, Mary McDonnell, James Callis, Tricia Helfer, Michael Rymer
- Subtitles: : Spanish, French
- Language : English (DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1)
- Studio : Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
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This incarnation is also better that the previous one. The bad guys are not as cartoonish. The characters have much more involved motivations and drives. The Cylons are very pleasant to look at and they are also much more insidious, devious and dangerous. There is an element of psychological drama that was lacking in the old show. The Cylon machines having a religion also lend some complications.
The names of the characters have been retained from the previous version but they are different. Baltar is a young guy, thoroughly self centered and bad but not bad for the sake being a "bad guy". He is a genius but also a dupe of the Cylons and is the reason humanity finds itself in trouble. The Cylons too are different. Instead of being mechanical men, they are human in form; they have migrated from mechanical machines to biological ones and can pass for human. They politicians are not as generally venal but they can come across as clueless...until one has a particularly brilliant insight or observation. Apollo is estranged from his father, Adama, instead of being a buddy and Starbuck is a girl. She likes her cigars like the original but she is a harder and grittier character. The basic forms are retained but the substance is not.
Objectively, this series is neither better nor worse than the original. It is just different. Some things remain the same, however. Humanity is in trouble and the writers have a minimal grasp of Newtonian physics. The science is not quite as hokey and the effects are great. Take it for what it is, an entertaining series that will appeal to some but not to others.
Synopses of the episodes appear below.
1. Pilot - This episode is the mini-series/pilot which sets up all which follows. The mainline cast of characters is introduced as well as their motivations. The basic situation is that humanity is had several decades of peace after a long war with the Cylons. No Cylon has been seen for decades. The peace is about to end. The Cylons attack in a bid to eradicate humanity and most of plan succeeds. The political leadership is destroyed except for a minor cabinet official and so is most of the fleet. Only the aging ship GALACTICA survives as a military force and its systems are way out of date. That is an advantage when dealing with the Cylons. The survivors manage to get together, scrape together some supplies and set out in a bid for the survival of humanity. It is not going to be easy.
2. 33- For some strange reason, the Cylons keep attacking the fleeing human fleet every 33 minutes. This quick cycle of constant combat operation is exhausting everyone and the crews are starting to fall apart. Nerves are starting to wear thin. The humans are at a loss understanding this strange cycle. Seemingly, they Cylons could close in and destroy them at any time. They almost seem to be drawing out the hunt, as a cat plays with a mouse. There does turn out to be a method to the madness. One of the Cylon's biological clock is ticking and she will keep the stress up until she gets what she wants.
3. Water - A Cylon agent manages to steal some munitions and blow up one of the ships carrying a major portion of the fleet's water. Rationing has to be put into effect with consequences for morale and discipline. The fleet must find water. They must also figure out the source of the sabotage but its hard when you are never sure who with whom you're dealing. Personal relationships and love affairs complicate things even further.
4. Bastille Day - A water crisis loomed in the previous episode but water was found just as the show ended. In this episode, we learn how difficult it will be to get that water. Labor is needed. A natural source is a convict ship. They are not to be used as slaves but their participation will earn them points towards early release. The problem is that the prisoners revolt and take hostages. They are led by a notorious terrorist. This episode is actually the most interesting thus far but it is troubling in that it seems to condone terrorism in some cases.
5. Act of Contrition - The Galactica's fleet is still taking on water and trying to repair damage. An accident in a landing bay kills a handful of pilots and they are already short from casualties. As a result, Starbuck is assigned to train new pilots. The material she has to work with is not very auspicious but she is even harder on them that anyone expects. She still feels guilt over the death of Apollo's younger brother whom she was assigned to train years ago. He was not qualified but she passed him anyway because they were lovers. Naturally, this leads to uncomfortable situation with his brother and their father. She finally buckles down and starts whipping the new guys in shape when they are attacked and we are set up with a cliffhanger.
6. You Can't Go Home Again - Starbuck gets shot down in the previous episode and this one is dedicated to the rescue mission to look for her. She has actually bailed out on a moon and the search includes the entire system. There are some matters of scale which don't make sense here. The commander takes some excessive risks in looking for her and everyone seems to think he is letting personal matters take over for practical ones. This episode exemplifies a weakness found in many science fiction series. The coincidences just seem to build on each other way past the point of believability. Starbuck manages to find a crash landed alien with an air supply and fix its ship which happens to be of Cylon manufacture.
7. Litmus - The Cylon ability to appear as humans has finally become public knowledge, after a Cylon agent manages to set off a suicide bomb on the Galactica. This causes major problems as everyone becomes a suspect of either being a Cylon or a Cylon agent. Things are made worse when a crew chief does some illegal fraternizing with one of his pilots. Some of his crew try to cover for their illicit tryst get caught in the lies and make everyone look like an agent. A minor substory involving some humans which were left behind on Caprica over the past few episodes begins to develop some more. Its suspicion all around.
8. Six Degrees of Separation - The Cylons want something of Baltar. With him on their side, they have a highly placed agent in the fleet. There are two problems from their point of view, however. He is a reluctant ally at best and he is not completely trusted by the others. They solve these problems in a vicious manner. They frame Baltar as a collaborator. The evidence is pretty damning even though it is faked. He is a collaborator but as a dupe, not an active participant. Baltar comes close to being executed for treason in this one. When he is finally saved, remorse over his false accusation makes him a truly trusted member of the team and his begging for help from the Cylons makes him realize that he is their tool. He will serve them to save himself and because he has the hots for the Cylon known as number 5.
9. Flesh and Bone - A Cylon agent is found alive in the fleet. Starbuck is assigned to interrogate the prisoner and find out any information which might be of use to the fleet. She is always a tough character but in this case she is truly vicious. She resorts to torture. The rationale for this is that, whatever their appearance, Cylons are machines. It is not morally wrong to abuse your toaster neither is it wrong to abuse a Cylon, especially if that Cylon has information about a nuclear bomb hidden in the fleet. As usual, the major goals of the Cylons seem to be to cause dissention within the fleet and promote their "religion".
10. Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down - The cycle of destructive suspicion grows deeper as Commander Adama'a behavior grows strange. He makes secret calls and disappears from the ship for short intervals. When this behavior is combined with the warning from the Cylon agent from the previous episode that Adama is in fact a Cylon, suspicions mount. Baltar has finally come up with his long awaited Cylon detector and the commander comes under more suspicion as he finds ways to avoid having himself tested. Then the reason is revealed. He shows up with Col. TIgh's long lost and estranged wife. She is pretty and a philanderer who causes no end of trouble. Maybe she is a Cylon. She certainly causes enough trouble for one.
11. The Hand of God - The fleet is running dangerously low on fuel and scouts are sent out looking for a supply. They finally find one but it is guarded by a Cylon force. The fleet stakes it all on a desperate surprise battle except that it is not that simple. Cylon mysticism plays a part and they finally convince Baltar that he is an instrument of god working for them...I think.
12. Colonial Day - The fleet is starting to get its political act together and re-institute former offices. When a congress is called, one order of business is to elect a vice president in case something happens to the current president. The terrorist from several episodes back stands for election and looks to have a good chance of winning. That frightens everyone because they believe he is looking for just such an opportunity to assassinate the president and assume power himself. Baltar, on the other hand, runs as the Cylon candidate. Everyone else thinks he is running with the president's party but the viewers know differently.
13. Kobol's Last Gleaming Part 1 - The fleet finally finds a habitable planet that has some eerie facets to it. So much seems familiar. It turns out to be Kobol, legendary planet from which their civilization derived. According to legend, an artifact left back on Caprica, when used in a particular way on Kobol, will show the way to the even more legendary planet of Earth...the goal of the fleet. There are several problems with this plan, however. Caprica is under Cylon control and there is a Cylon base star orbiting Kobol. The president has a plan, though, which makes her seem insane. Her goals set her against Adama and the question is who will be obeyed.
14. Kobol's Last Geaming Part 2 - The president manages to convince Starbuck to undertake a high risk mission back to Caprica to secure the artifact which will show the way to Earth. While there, she runs into the crewman who had been left behind. Meanwhile back on Kobol, things are getting more and more weird. Crew members are stranded on the planet. The strange Cylon religion is almost, but not really, made clear. Baltar gets a chance to make a choice for all humanity and there is a coup attempt which may or may not be legal. The season ends with a bloody cliffhanger and little or nothing resolved.
As a kid, I enjoyed the original Battlestar Galactica, but it simply bores me as an adult.
Consequently, when the SciFi Channel announced that Ronald Moore (of Star Trek Deep Space Nine fame) was going to re-imagine Battlestar Galactica, I was mildly interested because I thought Moore did a fantastic job during his stint in the Star Trek universe (he made Trek interesting again). But, I couldn't shake the "cheese" factor that popped into my brain every time I thought of Battlestar Galactica.
Also at issue is the fact that only the SciFi channel cancels new TV series faster than Fox TV. I'm always cautious about getting into a new series on the SciFi channel because I don't want to be disappointed when they will likely axe it.
So, Ron Moore wrote and produced the update mini-series of Battlestar Galactica. I taped it but never got around to watching it for the reasons I've mentioned.
Here is a brief synopsis of the mini-series (spoiler warnings):
The peoples of the 12 colonies of Kobol created a race of robots to serve humanity; they were called the Cylons. In a Harlan Ellison-esque twist, the Cylons turned on their creators and tried destroy them. Following a long and bloody struggle, the humans and the Cylons signed a peace accord and the Cyclons departed the colonies for a world of their own.
Fourty years passed, during which the Cylons were seen never or heard from again.
As the mini-series opens, the Battlestar Galactica is to be decommissioned and turned into a museum/learning center. Amidst preparation for her decommissioning, the crew of Galactica is honoring their beloved Commander Adama in advance of his retirement.
Unknown to all, the Cylons have evolved to include a model that is almost entirely indistinguishable from human. One such model has inflitrated the capital of Kobol, the planet Caprica, and used her relationship with a brilliant human military scientist named Baltar to spread a computer virus that will expose the 12 colonies and the Colonial fleet to a sneek attack. The surprise attack that follows is reminiscent of Pearl Habor. The 12 colonies are wiped out in a nuclear holocaust, and the Colonial fleet is all but destroyed.
Galactica, thanks to her non-networked computers, survives the attack, and Commander Adama prepares his ship and crew for a counter-attack against the Cylons. The new President of the colonies gather space-stranded refugees and rendezvous with the Galactica. The President convinces Adama that humanity's only hope of survival is to flee the 12 colonies. Adama agrees that the war is lost and he orders the ragtag fleet to travel beyond chartered space. To give what could be the last survivors of the human race hope, Adama sets course to find the 13th colony of man that is known only in legends, which teach that a group of humans left the 12 colonies of Kobol and settled on a world called Earth. The sacred text teaches that "Life here began out there." Neither the President nor Adama believes the legends are true.
The peoples of the 12 colonies of Kobol created a race of robots to serve humanity; they were called the Cylons. In a Harlan Ellison-esque twist, the Cylons turned on their creators and tried destroy them. Following a long and bloody struggle, the humans and the Cylons signed a peace accord and the Cyclons departed the colonies for a world of their own. 40 years passed, during which the Cylons were seen never again.
As the mini-series opens, the Battlestar Galactica is to be decommissioned and turned into a museum/learning center. Amidst preparation for her decommissioning, the crew of Galactica is honoring their beloved Commander Adama in advance of his retirement. Unknown to all, the Cylons have evolved to include a model that is almost entirely indistinguishable from human. One such model has inflitrated the capital of Kobol, the planet Caprica, and used her relationship with a brilliant human military scientist named Baltar to spread a computer virus that will expose the 12 colonies and the Colonial fleet to a sneek attack. The surprise attack that follows is reminiscent of Pearl Habor. The 12 colonies are wiped out in a nuclear holocaust, and the Colonial fleet is all but destroyed.
Galactica, thanks to her non-networked computers, survives the attack, and Commander Adama prepares his ship and crew for a counter-attack against the Cylons.
The new President of the colonies gathers together space-stranded refugees and rendezvous with the Galactica. The President convinces Adama that humanity's only hope of survival is to flee the 12 colonies. Adama agrees that the war is lost and he orders the ragtag fleet to travel beyond charted space. To give what could be the last survivors of the human race hope, Adama sets course to find the 13th colony of man that is known only in legends, which teach that a group of humans left the 12 colonies of Kobol and settled on a world called Earth.
The sacred text of Kobol teach that "life here began out there". Neither the President nor Adama believe the text or the legends, but both agree to the play this dangerous card so that the survivors will do more than simply exist.
The mini-series was a ratings hit, and USA TV and SciFi announced their commitment to produce a 13-episode season of Battlestar Galactica.
As the season progressed, I began to read reviews of Battlestar Galactica that will positively glowing.
I got interested enough to add the DVD of the mini-series to my Amazon Wish List.
After a second season of the show was announced, I decide it was time for me to take a look at the updated mini-series.
There are a few shows and movies that, after the initial viewing, I want to geek out and watch them again and again. Movies like Shaun of the Dead and Napoleon Dynamite are perfect examples. Battlestar Galactica became the next DVD that I simply wanted to watch over and over.
This is not your daddy's Battlestar Galactica. This is a Battlestar Galactica that is dark and militaristic. The Kobol culture was at once alien and yet familiar. Even the Cylons were like humans and not like humans.
Authentic is the word that best describes this Battlestar Galactica. When the pilot of a heavy cruiser hands the Secretary of Education a printed announcement that Caprica has been nuked, his hand is shaking. The Viper pilots are true to fighter pilots everywhere: they are cocky and sometimes insufferable.
The visuals, especially the space shots, make you feel like the events really happened and that someone with a video camera just happened to be there to film them.
The score was outstanding. The drumbeats threading throughout the score produced tension and evoked images of primal cultures calling for war parties, which is particularly apt for this mini-series since humans from the 12 colonies supposedly give birth to the ancient civilizations of Earth, the so called 13th colony of Kobol.
I found myself wanting some extended scenes of life on the colonies, but then again, it might have detracted from the mini-series' pace.
In re: this DVD set, the video transfer is good, is free from dust and is relatively free from grain. The audio features Dolby Digital 5.1 tracks and is good quality.
There are a decent amount of extras, but I was dissappointed that several of the deleted scenes did not contain finished effects and score, which isn't suprising as sci-fi TV is expense to produce in the first place.
I highly recommend this mini-series. Be aware that on September 20, 2005, Amazon and other retailers will be selling the complete first season of Battlestar Galactica. The release is supposed to include the 3-hour mini-series.
As of 8/26/05, Best Buy has an exclusive region 1 encoded version of the complete first season Battlestar Galactica that aired in the U.K. Stay away from this set; it does not have the mini-series, it does not have as many extras as the 9/20/05 set will have, and it costs more than the 9/20/05 release will.
If you haven't seen the mini-series and aren't sure you will like it, then I recommend you buy this DVD, perhaps used, even if you end up buying the complete first season. It is excellent.
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This set includes the two episode miniseries and the 13 episodes of series one
This is still one of the best series to have ever been on television and whilst it sets what’s in the sci-fi genre it is so much more than that
Yes there is sci-fi and drama with many action scenes and CGI graphics but in the time that it had it tried to address many issues such as terrorism and abuse which in my opinion puts this set far ahead of the original series it is a great shame that they didn’t continue with blood and chrome or the series of Caprica
A fantastic reimagining of the original but much more adult, much more thought provoking and much more enjoyable.
I bought mine for one penny to replace my lost copy and I intend to watch the whole saga once again.
So a word of warning.
If you get this mini series you will be hooked and end up buying the whole fabulous saga.
At times my support actually wavered from humanity to the Cylons and back and forth.
It keeps you guessing throughout as themes are explored and I never saw THAT ending coming for once.
And believe me, I really envy your ride through this top rate series.
Enjoy.
The last of the great Battlestars from those wars, the Galactica, is about to be taken out of service and turned into a floating museum and tourist attraction, and its commanding officer about to retire.
Every year, on a given date, on a designated satellite station, representatives from both species were to meet; except the Cylon's never turned up - until now. This date coincides with the ceremony for the mothballing of the Galactica.
Now, humanities children are returning home.
I avoided this programme as remakes, particularly of well loved programmes, do have a tendency not to live up to the memory of their predecessors. This one, however, was different in more ways than one.
It does not try to remake the original series (something which I wasn't a fan of) though it does contain characters with similar names. We still have Commander Adama - except now he is William Adama (Edward James Olmos), and he no longer has the glowing father-son relationship of the first series with his son Apollo (now Lee Adama - Jamie Bamber). In fact relationship between father and son is strained.
There is still "Starbuck", except now he is female Lieutenant Kara Thrace (Katee Sackhoff) - this appears to have caused a great deal of debate amongst fans. However, this is not the only character which has suffered a gender alteration - Boomer is now Lieutenant Sharon Valerii (Grace Park) - but this change seems to have caused less controversy.
Returning with this series is Baltar, now scientist Gaius Baltar (James Callis). Gone is the robotic dog (which is no loss from the little I can remember of it).
New characters include President Laura Roslin (Mary McDonnell), number six (Tracia Helfer) and Leoben Conoy (Callum Keith Rennie); as well as the return of some lesser remembered characters.
Unlike the previous series this version sticks too familiar military (mainly naval aircraft carrier) terminology, and the characters contained within are flawed rather than the perfect members of the human race as in the 1970s/80s versions.
I enjoyed watching the inserted acknowledgements of the older programme - for example, at the beginning of this pilot film one character is looking at the sketches of the old Cylon models as featured in the old TV show, the type that is referred to as a metallic toaster.
There are extras on the disc:
"The Lowdown"- which is a 20 minute featurette - this appears to be a number of interviews with the main characters justifying the changes that the makers have made, especially with the character of Starbuck. Interviews included were on London Bridge, in busy traffic (Jamie Bamber), in a park (Edward James Olmos) and while driving a car in traffic (Katee Sackhoff) - my question is why interview the stars of the show in such difficult places, did someone in production not realise that at times it is very difficult to hear what is being said.
English subtitles are also available on this disc.
Overall, and to my surprise, I found this escapism thoroughly enjoyable.
An ongoing subplot takes us back to Caprica, now devastated by nuclear explosions and radioactive fall-out, where Lt. Karl Agathon, callsign 'Helo', is trying to find a way off the planet after being stranded there in the mini-series. However, the Cylons have their own plans for Helo...
Season 1 of Battlestar Galactica is its most concise: 13 episodes compared to Season 2-4's 20 apiece. It's also its most consistent in quality, with no longeurs or unwatchably bad episodes. The pace of events is relentless, with the constant Cylon pursuit of the fleet and their hounding of Helo's attempts to flee from Caprica driving the narrative forwards. The emphasis here is less on the mystical elements that come to dominate the later seasons and more on the cold, hard realities of survival: finding or growing the vast amounts of supplies that 50,000 people need to survive on, finding water and fuel, and putting in place an administrative structure to govern the people more effectively. The clash between the military and political perspectives (espoused by Adama and Roslin) provides an underlying thematic structure to the season culminating in the events of the startling finale. Numerous subplots are established and expanded upon with confidence and verve.
For the individual episodes, the award-winning "33" is an astonishing piece of work. The ticking clock element and the constant Cylon attacks on the fleet turning the crew into strung-out wrecks is handled superbly. "Water" deals with the supply problem effectively whilst increasing the paranoia quotient. "Bastille Day" introduces the recurring character of Tom Zarek (excellently portrayed by the original series' Richard Hatch) and a number of political subplots that culminate at the end of Season 2. "Act of Contrition" and "You Can't Go Home Again" mix together the problem of recruiting new soldiers and pilots from a very limited pool of recruits with a more dynamic storyline involving Starbuck crashed on an inhospitable planet. "Litmus" addresses the some of the apparent plot-holes of earlier episodes by having someone investigate the security lapses on board the ship. "Six Degrees of Separation" puts Baltar on the spot when he is accused of treason, with James Callis delivering a stand-out performance. "Flesh and Bone" is another excellent piece of work, with Starbuck having to torture a Cylon prisoner for information but ends up having her own soul stripped bare. "Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down" is the first season's only misfire, an attempt at a 'comedy episode' that doesn't work too well, although it does introduce the magnificent, Lady MacBeth-esque character of Ellen Tigh. "The Hand of God" is a simple balls-to-the-wall action show, with Galactica and her Viper squadrons having to launch a massive assault on a Cylon base. The CGI is astonishingly good and the tactical nuances of the planned attack are portrayed well. "Colonial Day" is another political episode, showing how the fleet's new administration is going to work. The assassin subplot is muddled and confused, and the resolution to the episode hints at a subplot that is never again addressed. Nevertheless, it's entertaining enough. Events culminate in the two-part "Kobol's Last Gleaming", which mixes together the storylines from the entire season and delivers a succession of plot revelations and intriguing ideas culminating in a shocking cliffhanger twist ending that leaves the viewer eager to watch Season 2 immediately.
Battlestar Galactica: Season 1 (****½) is an excellent piece of work, establishing the characters and storylines superbly. It is available on DVD in the UK and packaged with the mini-series in the USA.
A few points on the production values and the DVD quality, as opposed from the show:
1) In these days of HD the DVD picture quality is already starting to be a bit wanting - I suppose the answer may be get an HD format if this is really likely to bother you very much;
2) Why do all modern epics swamp the actor's dialogue with very loud background music and effects, especially as the on-screen conversations are often delivered quietly and in mumbles? Although, I accept that some of this might be due to my hearing deteriorating; and
3) The menu options could have been a bit better: the two parts not broken down. You have to play the whole thing as one feature; making it difficult to find a natural stopping point, if you want to which the mini series as it was originally shown in two episodes.
However, these are minor quibbles, this is really a very good show.

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