Customer Reviews
Mini Series plus Season 1! 
2008-05-12
This DVD season 1 from Amazon was a very good buy for me. It's awesome that it comes with the Mini Series too. You really need to see the aprox. 2 Hr. Mini series to enjoy the episodes fully.
As for the show itself, All I can say is its a very well written show. The acting is very good. I love how each episodes sucks you in that you end up rejoicing with the crew members as soon as they completed a dangerous mission successfully! You'll definitely get attached to each characters and care for them.
I can't believe the series is ending 2008-05-04
I was slow to accept the new "re imagining" of Battlestar Gallactica. My efforts were hampered when I lived without cable TV for a couple years. Now I'm struggling to catch up.
It's not always easy to find the money to buy a season of your favorite show. So far, the only complete collection I have is Smallville.
One thing about this series: It requires my total concentration, or I miss important elements of the stories. That's not easy for me because I usually sit at my computer and watch TV.
I bought Battlestar Season 1 from Amazon, and plunged into it. This provided the information I'd missed... so I can more easily understand the current episodes.
I plan on buying all the other seasons as well.
In the meantime, I saw that Wal-Mart offered Stargate SG-1 Seasons 1&2 for $19 apiece... So I bought them... but there were a total of 10 seasons of SG1.
best scifi since star trek ng 
2008-05-04
excellent production values,plot lines are dense and fully imagined,in depth characterizations that are consistant from episode to episode.
can you tell i really enjoyed it?
Great Series and Great Price 2008-04-27
Any price that Amazon has on a Battlestar Galactica product is the best around. I'm extremely happy with the set and the shipping. Overall the series is on the best on Television and History, a must have for a BSG fan.
Interesting, but flawed, and eventually tiresome 
2008-04-21
The first disc, the opening episodes that laid the background for this series, was fascinating.
But, as the series progressed, some things really started to annoy me.
A problem carried over from the original series in the 1980's - how could they start off with 20 old Vipers, lose several in each episode, and keep flying and fighting? That part really bugged me about the old series, and remains a fundamental flaw of the whole concept.
President Roslin - wow, a hard bitten Starship captain takes orders from the former Secretary of Education, with the fate of the fleet and all of humanity in doubt. Yeah, right. Not only that, she acts like a Bill-less version of Hillary Clinton, with an equally grating, nails-on-a-blackboard personality. Ouch, it just got to be increasingly painful to watch her in action.
Baltar - how come nobody ever notices that this guy is behaving so weird? How come everybody keeps trusting him and puts key decisions in his hands? How come nobody suspects him of being a Cylon? And that British accent is so annoying.
Cylons - they are so good at infiltrating the humans. Why infiltrate them with defective models that question their purpose? What the heck is all this talk about God, etc.? Hybrids? Way too weird. Do they want to annhilate humans or create a new race, what? Surely a toaster can't be too confused about its goals in life.
All in all, better than than the average fluff that's on TV, but flawed.
Simply Amazing 2008-05-31
Not only is this the best sci-fi drama on television, but this is the best Drama... Period.
You don't have to like sci-fi to get hooked on this show, but you do have to watch it from the beginning.
brilliant 2008-05-29
At first, I was resistant to watching this show -- I was a fan of the original BSG as a kid, and had fond memories of drawing large pictures of vipers and raiders in huge space battles. But I watched a few episodes and quickly warmed to it. Edward James Elmos as Adama? It works. And Tricia Helfer helped me adapt as well... Turning the Cylons into the creations of the humans, albeit religious extremist beings who believe they have an edict from the "one true God", brings to mind great fiction like Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Bladerunner/Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, and past and current political and religious conflicts like the "war on terror". It is obvious the plot has been though out from the beginning, and it is paying off in spades now in the fourth season.
not a good show 
2008-05-21
I managed to get through the entire season 1 and the first disc of season 2 before completely giving up on this series. I seriously do not understand why so many people think this show is so great. The acting is really bad and the storylines are mostly silly. Additionally, every character is so flawed that there isn't a single one that you feel any sympathy for. So you end up either feeling hopeless because humanity doesn't deserve to survive in these peoples' hands, or worse you end up rooting for the Cylons.
Don't believe the hype. And don't waste your time on a garbage show like this. There are a ton of other better shows out there on DVD that are worth your time. Just off the top of my head - Veronica Mars, Firefly, How I Met Your Mother, Robot Chicken, Lost, Heroes, 24 (barely). Heck, even the first two seasons of the O.C. was better. I'm giving up on Battlestar and moving on to the Wire season 1. Then after that I'm going to check out Jericho. I have also heard good things about House.
5 stars for Season One of Battlestar Galactica 2008-05-14
If you're going buy this DVD set, you might as well buy Season 2, 2.5, 3, and 4 b/c you'll probably rip through the first season in a few days. I was back online within the first hour of watching Season One to make sure I had copies of the other seasons on their way.
Yes, Season One and the entire mini-series is really that good. Great characters, just enough CGI to help sell the outerspace and action scenes, intense drama and suspense. I can't think of one negative thing to say about Season One, only that I waited too long to start watching.
Buy this DVD and as well as the other seasons.
Good hunting...
An Instant Science Fiction Classic 2008-05-12
BSG belongs in the top tier of Television Science Fiction/Fantasy. Up there with Buffy, Firefly (criminally short-lived as it was,) the better episodes of the original Star Trek and The Twilight Zone, BSG's deep character development, compelling story lines and top-notch action sequences must delight any true aficionado.
Not just for fans of SF, the quality human drama and deft touches of humor should compel anyone interested in quality television to rent (and then buy) this series.
The last word: Edward James Olmos.
