646f9e108c A two-hour Battlestar Galactica special that tells the story of the Battlestar Pegasus several months prior to it finding the Galactica. I&#39;m an old fan of the Classic Battlestar galactica. After watching again the whole season I truly believe Glenn Larson set many things in a very logic way, for example the martial law that gives Adama the power to command the fleet against the bureaucracy of the council of the twelve, something that Ronald D. Moore erase with the &quot;immortal&quot; president. I try to find something good of the new version after hear so many reviews, but I really don&#39;t understand how can they be so blind, specially with Razor, who is the same old garbage withe the same mistakes from the show.<br/><br/>First: Many unnecessary characters whining for everything. Second: Technology from the future or other galaxy worst than the things we have in our real world. Third: Heroes who doesn&#39;t even know how to act in a battle. Fourth: Special effects who seems to be pure CGI because there&#39;s no budget (or brain) for something better. Fifth: Collage of scenes made (as seem) with camera on the hand who rattle to make more realistic the story seem to show the guy doesn&#39;t know how to use the equipment. Sixth: Almost no music.<br/><br/>––-Spoilers––- The only thing new of this movie it&#39;s the chance to watch the old cylons lookingCGI Again we have pure fantasy sequence with battle procedures impossible to make in space and in the reality, these seems to be just something copy from some other war movie. Actually there is a scene almost exactly to another from Star Trek First Contact, the same message, some powerful enemy with something mechanic part in a battle with human trying to escape in a corridor of one starship (I&#39;m not giving all details trying to avoid more spoilers) ––––––––– <br/><br/>In conclusion: Razor it&#39;s just the basic war story in the new Galactica cannon who tries to give some lessons for something we can learn in any other and more entertaining and very much realistic movie or TV show, like star trek First contact, Starship Troopers (movie with main message it&#39;s the whole new Battlestar Galactica premise) or even Babylon 5 and Stargate SG1. I recommend only for the fans of the new show how doesn&#39;t open their eyes to the fantasy world of Ronald D. Moore where realism it&#39;s only in his imagination. Having just watched this, and then read some of the comments that have been posted, I suspect that there are a few subtleties that have been overlooked.<br/><br/>While most people who have commented on this special episode have recognised the use of flashbacks to &quot;flesh out&quot; things we already know have occurred, the development of the back story of the &quot;Old Cylons&quot; did (I feel) link in with a great deal of what has been hinted at regarding the development of the Cylons, particularly their human-like forms; the ability to &quot;see&quot; the future; and their religion (and may I say, rather than feeling &quot;force fed&quot; by writers, the whole concept of machines developing a religious belief system just like my own scares the *heck* out of me! Do the Cylons *really* believe what they are saying? Is it something they collectively discovered; or did a leader get delusions somewhere and infect them all with a psychosis? Worst of all though, is the question &quot;if the Cylons have a belief system like mine, while the humans have a &quot;multi-god&quot; view, then which side should *I* really be on?&quot;. But I digress!) <br/><br/>My point is that this issue of (some) Cylons having the belief that they can see the future &quot;because it has all happened before&quot; has been floating around for a long time now. Also I think many people may have missed the hint from this particular episode that the &quot;old&quot; Cylons appear to be the link between Earth and everyone else (in the original series, *** ooh, ooh, spoilers from 30 years ago follow - frak me!*** the Cylons actually made it to Earth - though I can&#39;t recall what the outcome was,by then they had been reduced to parodies of their former menacing selves). It also showed that the Cylons have an aspect of their past that they aren&#39;t so proud of either, and the revelation of their treatment of humans made an interesting counter-point to what we saw happening with Pegasus (in both cases, the events are set on vessels &quot;outside&quot; of the mainstream fleet; and in both cases it is hoped that the events can be left on the respective vessels when they are eventually destroyed).<br/><br/>So, I don&#39;t have a problem at all with the whole &quot;old Cylons&quot; sub-plot, and I very much suspect that this will become very important in Series 4. And in regards to Adama *not* revealing his previous experience to anyone before, perhaps he didn&#39;t understand enough of what he saw to be able to say anything (especially since he would have been pre-occupied with rescuing the other survivors).<br/><br/>Anyway, how about we all wait for Series 4 and see where it takes us, then see if &quot;Razor&quot; fits in with it or not? <br/><br/>Oh, but I can&#39;t leave without commenting on one thing - *whose* idea was it to have the main character speak with an Aussie accent? Yes, I know, she *is* an Aussie, but that&#39;s not the point - Jamie Bamber isEnglishPrince Charles, but *he* can do an American accent, so why do I have to listen to someone who sounds like *I* do? (I mean, Baltar has an English accent because he&#39;s a villain, and at least when Lucy Lawless was in it, she did her &quot;Kiwi&quot; accent, which has a minute trace of class about it! Yep, I can just hear those emails already!!!) <br/><br/>So, to finish up - there was a lot of story to cover in &quot;Razor&quot;, and while quite a bit of it had already been covered, this presented a new context to it all and was all the more thought provoking for it. I don&#39;t agree that any of the production efforts were below normal (I thought the special effects were brilliant - but may be others have forgotten that Cylon spaceships can&#39;t *really* fly around - and land it - city environments. And although I&#39;m supposedly &quot;grown up&quot; at age 45, *don&#39;t* get me started on how *creepy* the Centurions are - them and the new Cybermen are the stars of my worst nightmares!) <br/><br/>If you&#39;ve read this far, thanks for staying with me! For anyone associated with making BSG, thanks for keeping me so entertained for the past few years - and giving me plenty to think about! Oh, and if you plan on sending the Cylons to Australia, please start with Sydney, then Canberra ….
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