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After a massive Cylon attack on the 12 major colonies of man. Humanities last chance for survival rests in the hands of one Commander Adama and the last of the colonial fleet's battlestars the "Galactica".

"Battlestar Galactica" is a reimaging of the original series from the late 1970's, early 80's by Ronald D Moore and David Eick. Unlike most of the other sci-fi style programs and films we see today it has a much dirtier and grittier look. Also the show doesn't just centre itself around just a few main characters with everyone else just making up the background, but brings the lives of all the crew and survivors of the attack into the foreground.

The shows main plotline is that of survival of the human race which then turns into a quest to find the mythical 13th colony of man on a small planet called Earth. The first series leads straight on from the pilot miniseries and right from the offset shows just how much darker it is than the original series.

The main characters in the series are

Commander Adama played by Edward James Olmos

President Laura Roslin played by Mary McDonnell

Kara "Starbuck" Thrace played by Katee Sackhoff

Lee "Apollo" Adama played by Jamie Bamber

Dr. Gaius Baltar played by James Callis

Cylon Number Six played by Tricia Helfer

Cylon Model Eight/ Sharon "Boomer" Valleri played by Grace Park

As I stated earlier the whole show does not revolve around just a few characters so there is a massive cast listing for this show which you can find at

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki /List_of_Battlestar_G alactica_characters

Religion seems to play a big part in the overall lives of both the humans and cylons. The human have a polytheists belief (worship many gods similar to the ancient Greeks) and the cylons have a monotheist belief system (worship one god similar to most modern religions i.e. Christianity.) This really helps in the show in giving the two sides a much more rounded background as to why they do and act in certain ways.

Warning spoilers ahead

As with any review about a TV show or film it is very difficult to not spoil it for those who have not watched it already, however I will try to keep as much of the details of plotlines out as possible.

Each episode of the series runs in tandem between two main plot locations "Galactica and the fleet" and"Caprica" (home world to many of the fleets survivors).

The story line on Caprica centres around Karl "Helo" Agathon and one of the cylon number 8 models. This story line revolves around the cylons' attempts at producing

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