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situation the ranking officer of the Battle Star, Commander William Adama, announces their new mission is to find Earth; to give them a new home. There are myths and legends of a thirteen tribe that made it to Earth and they 'documented' the journey in a set of scriptures, thousands of years old, which they use as a guide. However the fleet is still dogged by the Cylons who at that point are determined to make humans extinct.

However as they have taken on human traits, the Cylons also have free will and a number of copies chose to go against the majority rule of their model line. Some fall in love with humans, some are betrayed and decide to turn against their kind to help humanity instead. When a hybrid is successful born this signals the beginning of the end, bringing the two warring races together. So how do two races, which have been at war for so long that they know nothing else, come to find peace? Watch and you shall see.

THE VERDICT (Contains spoilers)

Although I could go further into the storyline I wouldn't want to ruin the adventure. There are times when the story drags or goes off into a tangent not integral to the overall plot, but the writers are very good at building character and the world to get you hooked.

I felt they also tied up all the loose ends rather nicely as the story competed, showing they had worked on the series as a single concept from the start. Themes that ran throughout are finally explained, often in ways that were surprising. You see the Cylons grow as much as the humans and I feel this is one of the missing elements from the earlier work of mindless killing robots (although there is a lot of bloodshed still in this version, don't be fooled).

I also liked the way they interwove the science fiction and fantasy elements of the story, that focused on religious visions and the one true God of the Cylons, not to mention the human faiths. I think this can be a delicate thing that can easily go wrong, but I felt they struck a good balance (especially as you see a eminent human scientist become a man of faith via Cylon intervention and it seems credible)

Although I could see how this rendition may not be for everyone; especially perhaps die-hard fans of the originals, those who don't like religious connotations in sci-fi and even I got tired of the overuse of the word 'frak'. However I think you could do far worse than sit down of an evening and work your way through this collection. It certainly is a gripping and interesting story.

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