Wonderful character development!

Highly Overrated But Still Good

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

Used to love this as a kids. It still has a certain charm. So many good actors and great episodes.

I always thought of this show as a sort of spin off from the 1970s Star Wars craze. The show is based on Egyptian mythology, and sprinkled with characters having the manes of Greek gods. This show was well written and should have had more than one season. I loved it when it came out in the late 70s. It had a good moral compass,like Star Wars, showing there was a clear line between good(humans) and evil(cylons). Galactica 1980 was not as good, but tried to complete the story line with the Galactica finally finding earth. The remake of 2004 was visuallystunning. But I found the cast a jumble of screwed up people who should be locked up in an asylum. It was a ship full of drunken sociopaths. The line between good and evil was blurred; I suppose much like society today. I guess I'm getting old and prefer the nostalgia of watching the old show. As in that show, we were a different people in the 70s and 80s. We understood that there is good, and there is evil. Time marches on.

Note:- 8/10 is considering it was 1978. Today, more like a 7.Fast paced sci-fi drama with tongue in cheek character typing and scripting that plays out beautifully well in a serious manner. In your face religious references and future technology produce a cunning backdrop and environment.Family friendly with good moments for laughing.Even the wife started watching it after she got over that it was sci fi (she hates sci-fi - even Star Wars).If someone was to say that this is supposed to be competition for the Target Audience of Star Trek I would disagree. This series has more appeal than what I've seen of Star Trek (old and new).Note:- To those who want to watch BsG, this 1978 series is the most common and best - with the spin offs being very poor in many ways (except for the 2004 're-imagined' seasons which are actually user rated into the top 100 TV shows on IMDb).

While there are flaws in the series from the view of today, it IMHO stands up better than most before it.BSG when it aired, offered the viewers an epic journey of mankind forced into the unknown void of space in search of a new home.They were fighting for their lives against a foe that destroyed all that they knew.What more can anyone expect is more central to their survival?At all cost, the fleet of humans, went into the cosmos to search for a new home.What more could be a more fitting story?