Battlestar Galactica - Review (probably spoilers)

Amazing. It did not suck. In fact - it was actually good. Quite good.The show moves a little slowly in the first half, IMO but it does nicely set up just what was lost in the Cylon attack - everything. We get snapshots of the colony worlds and, of course, the Cylon activity.I had feared the 'fembots' - the human looking Cylons but the concept was handled surprisingly well. Clearly the creatures obey their directives but are capable of having their own adjenda. They were more than T&A appeal. Clearly the one that was implanted in Gais has some conflicts of interests and it was also clear they had some capacity for feeling. It was odd too, the Cylons seemed to feel some threat from the humans - which seemed to be their motiviation for the attack.I loved seeing the hard choices made by everyone who survived - from abandoning the non-FTL capable ships to the lottery for limited room on Boomer's ship. The desperation from the abandoned colonists wasn't shoved off-screen to avoid the pain and the struggle and grief of the survivors was clear as well. The conflict between the military mindset and the civilian authority was also well handled - and neither side was shown to be 'stupid'.I also have to say I was very impressed with the way they explain the reasons for the various 'retro' technologies in the ships (non-intergrated computers, a lot of manual doors etc) and colonies (fear of Cylon attack and cultural refusal to create anymore AI type computers). Then they showed why all that retro stuff was important. It wasn't just window dressing.I found myself sympathetic towards Gais, even though he's a pretty reprehensible person. I must say I loved the whole relevation of what was going to happen with him and his Cylon lover - how he reacted. And I did like his line 'the last time we saw a Cylon, they looked like walking chrome toasters!'There's been griping about the fact that the show does not slavishly follow the original series and you know - that's not neccesarily a bad thing. The orgianal series was cheesy as hell. Which doesn't mean they abandon all refrents to the orginal. Names remain, certian aspects of the uniform details remain - and the speical effects of the guns was just as the orgianl was. Oooh! And the special effects. They might have had budget constraints but they worked with them and - the battle sequences (in space) were very good.The only thing I disliked was the clear heterosexim of the moive. There is not a *single* referent to a homosexual character in the entire movie and I belive that *every* character with a speaking part is paired up with someone of the opposite gender by the end. My suspicious kink-mind wonders if they didn't change the gender of Starbuck to avoid the original series close same sex freindship between Apollo and Starbuck - and the slash potential it had.Clearly, the intent of this 'mini-series' is to whet our tastes for a series, which I certainly hope gets made.x