Commander Adama (Lorne Greene) finally gets Galactica and what remains of the colonies to Earth 30 years later. A whole generation has been born in space. Among them are the brilliant Dr. Zee, and Apollo's son Captain Troy. Fearing that the Cylons have secretly followed them to wipe out the last of humanity and shocked at the relatively primitive Earth, Dr. Zee advises to lead the Cylons away from Earth and send down teams to advance Earth science surreptitiously. Troy and Lieutenant Dillon are sent to America to recruit famed nuclear scientist Dr. Mortinson. Jamie Hamilton gives the boys a ride on her way to a TV reporter job interview. Commander Xavier ignores Adama and uses Dr. Zee's recent time travel invention to change history in 1944.
It's the death of a good idea until it gets reborn decades later. The 1979 original TV series starts with a great premise. It meanders around until cancellation at the end of its first season after a few good episodes. The network submitted to popular demands to revive the show. It should have left things alone. This is the result and it's not good.
It's clunky cheese. Some of it is memorable cheese like the flying motorcycles. The new premise is questionable. Even the dialog is clunky. There are usable parts like aspects of "The Day the Earth Stood Still". However, it all goes downhill by turning to sci-fi time travel. For some reason, everything turns white when they time travel. It's a callback to the Ship of Lights from the first series but that had overtones of Godly afterlife. It's odd to have such clunky cheese trying to incorporate the serious Nazi storyline. It adds more Cheese Whiz by bringing in the super kids. What the Hell? It makes no sense and it becomes Bad News Bears. It all collapses and the network quickly canceled the show after ten additional episodes.
It's the death of a good idea until it gets reborn decades later. The 1979 original TV series starts with a great premise. It meanders around until cancellation at the end of its first season after a few good episodes. The network submitted to popular demands to revive the show. It should have left things alone. This is the result and it's not good.
It's clunky cheese. Some of it is memorable cheese like the flying motorcycles. The new premise is questionable. Even the dialog is clunky. There are usable parts like aspects of "The Day the Earth Stood Still". However, it all goes downhill by turning to sci-fi time travel. For some reason, everything turns white when they time travel. It's a callback to the Ship of Lights from the first series but that had overtones of Godly afterlife. It's odd to have such clunky cheese trying to incorporate the serious Nazi storyline. It adds more Cheese Whiz by bringing in the super kids. What the Hell? It makes no sense and it becomes Bad News Bears. It all collapses and the network quickly canceled the show after ten additional episodes.