Battlestar Galactica

Today I just saw my first episode of Battlestar Galactica. When I first heard of the show, I expected it to be some dumb knock-off of Star Trek or Star Wars or something like that. I was surprised though. It had a completely different plot, with only some minor similarities (like the space battles). I thought that the episode was very interesting and exciting. The plot of a future world of humans v cylons was new to me and immediately grabbed my attention. Although I was confused at first what Number Six’s purpose was on Earth, I felt that the rest of the episode was easy to follow along with.
However, I do have some criticism about the miniseries we watched. First of all, although the show did a good job grabbing my attention, it had some trouble keeping it throughout the entire episode. I felt as though the episode was very slow-moving and sometimes difficult to pay attention to. I also felt as though there were some unnecessary sex scenes in this episode that I thought had no relevance whatsoever. They may have had relevance later in the season, but from just watching a part of the first miniseries, they seemed rather irrelevant. I also found it disturbing how the cylon on Earth handled the whole baby situation. I know that they are robots and don’t have feelings, but I found it to be disturbing how she broke the baby’s neck while the mother was just standing there. I feel as though that was an unnecessary way to show how cruel the cylons could be.
All in all, I would have to say that I enjoyed watching Battlestar Galactica. Although it was slow moving and had some unnecessary scenes , I feel as though it had a great plot and actually was sending an important message to the viewers. This message can be seen in many movies, such as “Jurassic Park” and “I, Robot”. This message has to do with “playing God”. It shows us that we must be careful with what we choose to do with our technology and what we decide to create. We have to have respect the power of the animals or robots or whatever we are creating and acknowledge that we are not “Godly” and are not always going to be able to control that power. I felt that this was a very interesting sci fi television show and I would not mind watching it again.