by Harry Keogh

Created on: April 30, 2009   Last Updated: May 09, 2011

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 1970s, early 80s by Ronald D Moore and David Eick. Unlike most of the other sci-fi style programmes and movies 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 it brings the lives of all the crew and survivors of the attack into the foreground.

The shows main plot line 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 it 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.  

The whole show does not revolve around just a few characters, there is a massive cast listing for this show which you can find at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Battlestar_Gala ctica_characters

Religion seems to play a big part in the overall lives of both the humans and cylons. The humans 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.

Each episode of the series runs in tandem between two main plot locations which are Galactica and the fleet and Caprica (home world to many of the fleets survivors). The storyline on Caprica centres around Karl "Helo" Agathon, and one of the cylon number 8 models. This storyline revolves around the cylons' attempts at producing a human-cylon baby, and their efforts towards this including trying to get the two characters to fall in love. The storyline of the fleet mainly consists of their continued efforts

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