This 26-part series is SO indebted to BSG, that even this series' 'enemy', as well as the 'resolution' are both knockoffs.
I rarely like remakes, and this one - other than a few performances - is SO slow, SO dragged out, the entirety (26 hours of all three series) could be summed up nearly I'm 3-4 hours, it a couple of night's-worth.
Saying this is virtually identical to BSG, anyone with a brain can easily tell who this 'war's against, but in BSG, the war of the colonies versus the Cylons was told over 4 or 5 seasons, giving much time to explore so much detail. Here, all the extra 'padding' is just that; airless 'fluff' (I will say this; as one's able to easily fast forward watching steamed programmes, any time any of a majority of the 'fluff' was happening, is move ahead. But even doing that, there's long dragged out scenes.
As I said earlier, I rarely watch remakes - because of the majority of the ones I've seen begging so dreadful. I never planned to watch BSG, and it was only through happenstance that I came upon it, in its unital first-run, when the (still called) SciFi Channel was showing the series up to that point in back-to-back episode marathons. I was drawn in to the brilliant story telling.
Here, however, it's hackneyed (and by that I mean 'clichè', asks NOT the idiotic 'trope').
I'm NOT one who needs everything rapid jump-cut, as many millennials have the mind span of a mayfly. I do want some 'meat' there.
As I was able to compress watching this into a considerably shorter time, the main performance I liked was French actress, Léa Drucker as Catherine, a scientist.
In spite of her being a bit distant (at first), I think her performance was by far the most memorable.
On the other hand, in the thankless role of the head villain/psychopath, Adina, I felt bad for Ania Sowinski, who was given a one-note role, and forced to repeat it over and over (much like this series).
I'm not saying her performance was bad, rather, it was a terribly written role which was never expanded on by the writers of this dreck.
Last, I saw that somewhere which had mentioned Greg Kinnear was to have been in the Gabriel Byrnes role.
Had that happened - as well as what idiot thought casting him, an American slice of one-note Wonderbread, would have our this middling series into the deep abyss. WTF?
As it is, I still like the beautifully directed (in glorious Technicolor!) Byron Haskin directed and George Pal produced version from '53, with the amazing ships designed by Albert Nozaki, followed by Spielberg's version (here the alien 'ship' is a giant donut, which, for some unexplained reason houses nothing more than a circular staircase. No, it needent be something akin to 2001: A Space Odyssey, but there's A REASON for LOGIC, and that's something quick is in short supply, here).
I rarely like remakes, and this one - other than a few performances - is SO slow, SO dragged out, the entirety (26 hours of all three series) could be summed up nearly I'm 3-4 hours, it a couple of night's-worth.
Saying this is virtually identical to BSG, anyone with a brain can easily tell who this 'war's against, but in BSG, the war of the colonies versus the Cylons was told over 4 or 5 seasons, giving much time to explore so much detail. Here, all the extra 'padding' is just that; airless 'fluff' (I will say this; as one's able to easily fast forward watching steamed programmes, any time any of a majority of the 'fluff' was happening, is move ahead. But even doing that, there's long dragged out scenes.
As I said earlier, I rarely watch remakes - because of the majority of the ones I've seen begging so dreadful. I never planned to watch BSG, and it was only through happenstance that I came upon it, in its unital first-run, when the (still called) SciFi Channel was showing the series up to that point in back-to-back episode marathons. I was drawn in to the brilliant story telling.
Here, however, it's hackneyed (and by that I mean 'clichè', asks NOT the idiotic 'trope').
I'm NOT one who needs everything rapid jump-cut, as many millennials have the mind span of a mayfly. I do want some 'meat' there.
As I was able to compress watching this into a considerably shorter time, the main performance I liked was French actress, Léa Drucker as Catherine, a scientist.
In spite of her being a bit distant (at first), I think her performance was by far the most memorable.
On the other hand, in the thankless role of the head villain/psychopath, Adina, I felt bad for Ania Sowinski, who was given a one-note role, and forced to repeat it over and over (much like this series).
I'm not saying her performance was bad, rather, it was a terribly written role which was never expanded on by the writers of this dreck.
Last, I saw that somewhere which had mentioned Greg Kinnear was to have been in the Gabriel Byrnes role.
Had that happened - as well as what idiot thought casting him, an American slice of one-note Wonderbread, would have our this middling series into the deep abyss. WTF?
As it is, I still like the beautifully directed (in glorious Technicolor!) Byron Haskin directed and George Pal produced version from '53, with the amazing ships designed by Albert Nozaki, followed by Spielberg's version (here the alien 'ship' is a giant donut, which, for some unexplained reason houses nothing more than a circular staircase. No, it needent be something akin to 2001: A Space Odyssey, but there's A REASON for LOGIC, and that's something quick is in short supply, here).