Do you remember the Cylon Empire and the holocaust that wiped out the Twelve Colonies? Well, with the Galactica having successfully escaped the clutches of the Cylons, and our heroes getting closer and closer to Earth, the showrunners thought we could use some new villains. Apparently, genocidal robots are just so old hat.
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Battlestar Galactica: Greetings from Earth – Review
“Greetings from Earth” was a special two-hour episode that had our ragtag fleet finally encountering the first humans that were not part of the original Twelve Colonies. Unfortunately, part of that encounter involves Space Nazis.
City Beneath the Sea (1971) – Review
Writer, producer, and director Irwin Allen is probably most known as the “Master of Disaster” because of his successes with such films as The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno, but in the 1960s he was most notably a producer of high adventure science fiction television shows. Programs such as Lost in Space, Voyage to…
Battlestar Galactica: Murder on the Rising Star – Review
So far we’ve had episodes that were Space Westerns, War Adventures, and even a Disaster Movie-based one, but now with Murder on the Rising Star we move into the Murder Mystery genre. Sadly, this episode does not include a Space Jessica Fletcher or a Galactic Ben Matlock.
Battlestar Galactica: The Man with Nine Lives – Review
Television shows, and which actors appear on them, have changed quite a bit over the years, as there is no longer the stigma that used to be attached to them. Today, big-time movie stars are regularly appearing on such shows as American Horror Story, True Detective, and Game of Thrones, without giving it a second…