The tone of the new series is thus much grimmer, downbeat and, to me anyway, rather more realistic and generally satisfying than the light-hearted space opera of the original. Other changes included redefining key names like Apollo, Starbuck and Boomer to be pilot callsigns rather than actual character names (thus Apollo is actually Lee Adama and Starbuck Kara Thrace) and changing the genders of some of the characters too, with Starbuck's redefinition as a woman being the most controversial although, arguably, Boomer's is more transformation is more radical, changing gender and race!
Similarly, while Apollo's relationship with his father Commander Adama is still a key story thread, their new relationship is altogether more strained and dysfunctional. For instance, Starbuck is still a hotshot fighter pilot but he is now a she and those traits that make her such a dangerous, unpredictable pilot mean she is also wild and sometimes undisciplined, hence occasionally has problems with authority. The main characters too, while having broadly the same traits as the originals, are an altogether much more complex, flawed and, arguably, more realistic and believable bunch. The modern day parallels with Post-9/11 America are there and hard to ignore, right down to the disputes between civil and military leaders as they try to balance the need to preserve some semblance of normal life and liberties with the need for security. The Cylons rebelled and, after a long absence, return to ruthlessly destroy the Twelve Colonies of Man in a sudden, devastating surprise attack, leaving the Galactica as the sole surviving warship left to protect a handful of survivors.įurthermore, the Cylons have also evolved so that some of them now look human so the human survivors have a devastated society facing an enemy of their own creation they cannot always identify and do not fully understand. In the new version the Cylons were originally created by the humans.
Thus, while the premise is still that of the original - survivors of the near extermination of the human race by the robotic Cylons fleeing in search of the legendary planet Earth - the new Galactica has a much darker and very modern perspective. However, rather than continuing the original series as many long-term Galactica fans had hoped, Sci-Fi took the radical decision to "re-imagine" it, taking the basic premise and set of characters of the original and re-building them from the ground up.
ISBN 978-5-6īattlestar Galactica is a novelisation of Sci-Fi Channel's 2003 mini-series revival (now ( 2007) in its third season) of the iconic but short-lived 1970s science-fiction series. Review of Battlestar Galactica by Jeffrey A Carver Fiction Reviews
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