Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

Let's be realistic.

Highly Overrated But Still Good

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

Yes it's very well put as my Mother Mary E.(Garvey)Baer put it "People who like it like it allot but most people don't."She even told how there was this Priest at Stonehill College who just so that he could finish watching Battlestar Galactica Changed The 9:00pm Mass to the 9:10 pm Mass.My sister Maureen who was The first of 6 siblings of mine out of all 9 to go to Stonehill.It has Special very good effects and as Some people might put it like my sister Denise did "I swear it's just like Starwars."She was the 3rd of 6 siblings to go to Stonehill The others going down the line were Kevin,Denise,Michelle and Jenny.Karen went to Tufts and Mark and I went to Framingham State.I went to Massbay too.Also to think as I read elsewhere on This IMDb site George Lucas The Producer of Star Wars had turned involvement in it down.Before Galactica 1980 would come next year a theater Movie of Battlestar Galactica would come next.In The Book of Rating The Movies they'd even tell how The Movie was inspired by the TV show of which wasn't too hot to begin with.So it makes sense why this wasn't too good either.Possibly, Stephen "Steve" G. Baer a.k.a."Ste" of Framingham,MA.USA

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.

Who, having grown up at the time, can ever forget the good old days, when TV shows like this were the ultimate scream of fashion?I wasn't even born in the 70's, but I still remember very well that in the early 90's TV often aired TV series like this, which now looking back were made before my time but as a child I didn't know that fact nor do I cared.'Battlestar Galactica' was created by Glen A. Larson, who also created 'Knight Rider', another TV series from my childhood.Now, looking at it through an adult's perspective, it is lesser great than it was in the days of innocence, but still 'Battlestar Gallactica' shines in nostalgia. Although some episodes were better than others and they always had their flaws, the show really gives that feeling of nostalgia. If not perfect, at least it is authentic. It is from a time when things were real, when things had a special magic. The opening, for example, is fantastic, with those spectacular images of space and space wars. The opening music too is absolutely wonderful, and that opening quote is memorable: «There are those who believe that life here began out there, far across the universe, with tribes of humans who may have been the forefathers of the Egyptians, or the Toltecs, or the Mayans. Some believe that there may yet be brothers of man who even now fight to survive somewhere beyond the heavens.»Like I said, it's by no means a perfect TV show. But the action scenes and their delicious sounds, the special effects, the space backgrounds... ahhh.... it's all so authentic and perfect (as it should be), without any of the excessive action and explosive noise seen these days.It starred Lorne Greene as Commander Adama, Richard Hatch as Captain Apollo and Dirk Benedict as Lt. Starbuck, all of them great. Most of these episodes also had Noah Hathaway in a minor role as Boxey, Apollo's little son. Boxey is the cute little tyke. Him and his Muffit. This was a few years before he "became" Atreyu. Too bad Boxey doesn't have a bigger role. Inevitably, this TV series resembles '2001: A Space Odyssey', 'Star Trek' and 'Star Wars'. It was even accused of plagiarism when 'Star Wars' itself heavily drank ideas from an early 70's film called 'Silent Running'.

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?