Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome_720p(480P)

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IT SUCKED 1. Lens Flares, yeah we all love Andrew Kramer and the Knolls Light Factory but this is overboard. 2. The entire plot revolves around getting the Doctor Lady to the Cylon Relay station. A task that apparently a raptor can do in under an hour when it rescues husker. 3. They are ditched by the other pilot who apparently thinks he can fly home to see his kid even though he is in a Viper, not a raptor. Vipers don't have FTL drives so he is kinda fracked on that account. 4. They Fleet trusts the entire mission to a rookie pilot, a short timer and a known traitor. Ummm bullsh*t! The entire WAR is resting on this mission, why send the tiny ship there to deploy the mission when you have like 4 fracking battle star just playing dead that could go there and ensure it's a success! FRACK just send in that rap-tor at the end, apparently its got the secret back way into the base to ensure it's a success. 5. The love scene is worthless and should have been scrapped in order to progress the other parts of the story along. frack this reboot.

Another spin off to an already DEAD franchise! I mean TAKE A HINT people you practically killed the franchise off with the remake off the series instead off continuing the original story! so PLEASE let it rest in peace! This is nothing more then money making of course the clueless fans does NOT seem to understand this at all as long as they get the special effects! The story is already done with everyone already know what is going to happen! Plus there is no originality in this re imagined version it looks more like a crossover between Twin Peaks,Real BSG and lost in space(WITHOUT the humor)! Sadly this has been done before to the Star Trek franchise starting with TNG which was little more then a total failure though Enterprise was a valiant attempt at salvaging the franchise even though it ultimately failed as well! The makers off Babylon 5 at least made a story that had a beginning a middle and an ending though various spin off's was attempted failed and simply put to rest!

Apologies to those who don't know this series but swearing appears to be a little different 30,000 years ago, apparently. What an excellent production. Beautifully reproduced Galactica / Cylon universe. Why, why did not this pilot go to series. Go figure. I'm not going to spoil it for you, but for those of you who have not come across this series on TV and for those of you who have not yet seen this prequel, all that I can say is, you bastards. I envy you. Seeing something like this web production, back on back, for the first time – kind of perfect. When it is this perfect, well - its just rare. This is an exceptionally good tale. Perhaps one of the few filmatic tales that transcend the written word - this was never a real written story - but hey who am I to judge. Judge for yourselves.

This film is a pilot for a series that was never picked up and, if judged solely on the visuals, then that's a good thing for all people who hate fake lens flares - and that's 99% of the Earth's population. The director of the film is SO obsessed with lens flare effects that he forgot all about having a sensible plot, decent acting, original characters or otherwise decent visuals. Every single light source in this film creates excessive lens flare, so much so that are moments where there is nothing on screen EXCEPT lens flare. I know this is all JJ Abrams fault with his Star Trek reboot but that doesn't mean that anybody else had to copy his sloppy technique. With so much flare obscuring the on screen image, you're reduced to having an aural rather than a visual experience and the content of the film just isn't up to making up for a lack of visuals. If this film were remade without the added lens flare effects then the money saved would be enough to hire a decent script writer, a decent director and some proper actors. THEN you might have a pilot film worth a series.

So the special effects is excellent and the acting is superb. When I first started watching this show, I noticed how well the music score went along with the action. All the actors chosen for this show were right on par. Who knows if they can keep up the good work without ruining another good run on BSG but from what I've seen so far, it's the best stuff on TV(will be televised as a movie in February 2013 on Syfy). Sad part is, this little show on the internet is far better than most big budget movies that you'll see in the theater. If they do decide to pick up this series, I hope they keep all the same characters in the follow up.

I would start to say, that if you intent to watch this movie as a standalone, you will probably not get that much out of it. This movie is related to the remake of Battlestar Galactica from 2004, and are best watched after the main show. However, you will, IMO, not get that much out of the movie anyway. If you, like me, thought that BSG: B&C will be a movie that tells more about the reasons and motives behind the first Cylon war, and will keep the original BSG atmosphere and spirit, you will be greatly disappointed. The movie don't have any from the original crew (actors, writers, directors and such) in the movie, and it seems more like a bad spin off/fan-fiction to BSG, than a worthy prologue. And the movie don't tell anything about the first Cylon war, and the only use this as a setting for a (dull) plot. The plot in the movie is a young William Adama who are going on a "milk-run", which in short time turns out to be a secret mission. But the plot is bad and full of holes, the characters motivation to do what they do are unresolved, and the movie feels long, in spite of that it last less than 1½ hours.

This doesn't deserve to wear the Battlestar Galactica badge. Decent cast, trying their damn hardest, but they are working with a poor script and plot line, the direction is questionable, and there is something wrong with the visuals. The lighting and SFX seems off, doesn't at all look like something that's part of the Battlestar Galactica, whether it's due to a low budget, poor direction, or simply a stupid choice to fit this weird "thriller" themed plot line(which again, doesn't fit in with the Battlestar Galactica theme), I don't know, but I definitely don't like it!

A very impressive pilot (I hope it's a pilot - but a good SyFy movie in any case) for still another addition to the Battlestar Galactica franchise. Creators Michael Taylor and his co-creator David Eick have picked up the saga post-Caprica and pre the 2004-2009 Battlestar Galactica series with a new tale centering on a young Bill Adama. Pasqualino and Cotton were excellent as Adama and Coker and the action filled plot is thankfully nothing like Caprica, which was sort of boring. This time we are back in space where the series belongs, shooting Cylons. There is still a hint of the philosophical depth in Ronald D. Moore's re-imaging of Glen A. Larson's original series but the Taylor teleplay keeps the politic and morality questions to a minimum and we get treated to a lot of good old fashioned shoot 'em ups along the way. (Taylor and Moore worked DS9 for the Trek Franchise way back when, BTW, and David Eick worked on all the recent BG series.) My only complaint was too little time for vet character actor John Pyper-Ferguson as a sort of bad guy (no spoilers here because he usually plays a bad guy, although some of us fondly remember him as a very funny bad guy in Brisco County Jr.) If we really do get a new series, maybe he'll be back. BG fans should be marching for a reboot based on Blood and Chrome. This universe has plenty of room for more episodes. ****UPDATED 23 March 2017**** I just watched the Blu-ray release of Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome and I've added one star as it was even better than I remembered. There is a lot of material that didn't make this, the extended cut, (included in Deleted Scenes) that is worth watching, even though this didn't become the pilot I'd hoped it would be.