Battlestar Galactica - The Complete Epic Series
	Release Date: 2004-02-10
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Review by: Chapman Johnston, Kentucky,USA
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Nada
I ordered an item from this seller. 3 days after last supposed day for item to be shipped I contacted the seller. I go no return message or explanation. Therefore had to file a claim. No excuse for someone who ,on their own, decided to be a seller and to treat people like this is without excuse. Why people are so much more rude these days is beyond me.

Review by: Ramsey Tupper - Raven's Foot, R(3,3,3) = 17, of course...
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Earth calling Face...Come in Face...
This is a massive film cut into episodes that was shown years ago on TV. The stylings of the sets and suits worn by the actors is old fashioned futuristic, so things look very eighties or early nineties at least. <br /> <br />It is a very derivative series, with loads of original ideas and plot twists based on religion. It also borrows the cyborgs from the A-Team intro titles, the one that Templeton Face nods a bit funny at. He must have known what was coming. <br /> <br />The segments follow the exploits of a big space liner full of the last people on Earth, who aren't really, as they are not on Earth for this and I doubt that everyone would have gotten to get on in time or afford a ticket, so it isn't about the last people on or from Earth at all. <br /> <br />This a space series about Earth people looking for another Earth. Why they didn't go to Mars and do that thing that Arnie does in Terminators is not mentioned for some reason, possibly budget restrictions for steam. <br /> <br />Dirk Benedict, who plays Starbucks, opened a chain of coffee shops with his earnings, who also played Face in the A-Team. He wasn't the only one who went into shops though. Dick Hatch, who played Appollo, which is Mexican for chicken, opened some electrical goods shops. Not to be outdone, Mary Jenson who played Athena, opened up a poster shop selling tennis cheek shots and black and white men holding babies. <br /> <br />The series bumbles along for quite a while, getting a bit Star Trekky with the running out of sets syndrome and opting for alternate reality modern day stories. The space bits are often repeated, just like in Buck Rogers, another Eighties ace space thing that this series inspired as well as George Lucas' Star Wars. <br /> <br />The main bit of the story is the exodus of Americans looking for some new resources to exploit. I think they found somewhere to park and live, but the ending is a bit confusing, even upon repeated watching. <br /> <br />The best bits are the cyborgs from the A-Team, they speak like robots through a vocodery type sounding device which wasn't even invented then! One of a number of things featured in the series that have appeared as science fact now. The robotic dog for another. <br /> <br />All in all a very good series, with a forward looking view of technology and our ecology with an eye upon human interactions and conflicts at an individual and cultural level. Recommended! Avoid!

Review by: Raelene
Rating:
Great DVDs!
Thanks, <br /> <br />I love the DVD's I ordered. We received them withing a couple of weeks. It was a present for my husband for Fathers day. Him and our 7 yr old son are enjoying watching the series together! Battlestar Galactica from the 80's is a great TV series even now. Great Price also! <br /> <br />

Review by: R. Rosik
Rating:
Classic BSG
I always felt the original series was the best. Now that my collection is nearly complete, watching this re-affirms my convictions.

Review by: Corey L. Oakes, TX
Rating:
When Starbuck was Starbuck
A must have for the kid who had to beg the parents not to watch 60 Minutes or whatever else was on the other network channel every Sunday when this aired. <br /> <br />When a Star Wars sequel was taking forever to be released theatrically, this television series provided a science fiction/fantasy fix, along with 'Buck Rogers in the 25th Century'. <br /> <br />Like Star Trek of the late 1960's, the popularity of this show was way underestimated by the executives of the network. When the suits did realize what they had cancelled, they tried to reclaim the magic with the ten episode 'Battlestar Galactica 1980' -- too little too late. Apart from the one Starbuck episode, that series represents everything that was wrong with studio executives and their attempts to fix their mistakes in the 1970-1980's. <br /> <br />This collection is a great flashback to a time before computer generated imagery (cgi) special effects. <br />(before there were computers as we know them: TI-99, Commodore VIC 20 or Apple ][ come to mind) <br /> <br />Every episode that has colonial vipers or cylon raiders in a scene used copied footage from the first few episodes. But, if you can overlook cost-cutting steps like that, the special effects are quite an achievement for that time. <br /> <br />Another good thing about this series is that you know who the good guys are and who the bad guys are. The Cylons are menacing and Starbuck is, well, Starbuck -- the way he was meant to be.