Question Battlestar Galactica (2004)

While I'm non-religeous, and don't appreciate such things being a theme in sci fi media such as Galactica, I took it upon myself to watch the first three episodes of BSG 2004. It did not disappoint. While it mentioned God every three seconds, the space battles were frakking awesome; the set design and ship design was so gorram believable I found myself totally immersed in the world with minimal exposition; the muffled sounds when in space to suggest that it was sounds from within a cockpit and the handheld shakeycam for all exterior shots made it even more authentic, and the cylons are just...awesome. The humanoid ones, meh. The centurions??? Whoever designed them did a bang-up job. As for the writing...it's better than some shows, but I found the constant religion references a bit in-your-face for my liking. If a show is going to have religeon in it, I'd prefer it to be part of the background (like in Star Wars), not shoved down your face every three seconds by a hallucination of a Cylon lover. I mean, Gais is the weakest link in the show. He isn't likeable, he isn't relatable, and since the show didn't even give me the names of half the characters in the first episode, I don't even know that much about him, other than the fact that he somehow helped bring down the 12 tribes or whatever they're called. In addition, I really don't care for the fact that they didn't even introduce the characters, and just threw them into a situation where they are part of a fleet that is running from the Cylons every 33 minutes. Its...jarring, and just bad for a pilot episode. Does anyone have any comments to make???

CrazyMinh wrote: While I'm non-religeous, and don't appreciate such things being a theme in sci fi media such as Galactica, I took it upon myself to watch the first three episodes of BSG 2004. It did not disappoint. While it mentioned God every three seconds, the space battles were frakking awesome; the set design and ship design was so gorram believable I found myself totally immersed in the world with minimal exposition; the muffled sounds when in space to suggest that it was sounds from within a cockpit and the handheld shakeycam for all exterior shots made it even more authentic, and the cylons are just...awesome. The humanoid ones, meh. The centurions??? Whoever designed them did a bang-up job. As for the writing...it's better than some shows, but I found the constant religion references a bit in-your-face for my liking. If a show is going to have religeon in it, I'd prefer it to be part of the background (like in Star Wars), not shoved down your face every three seconds by a hallucination of a Cylon lover. I mean, Gais is the weakest link in the show. He isn't likeable, he isn't relatable, and since the show didn't even give me the names of half the characters in the first episode, I don't even know that much about him, other than the fact that he somehow helped bring down the 12 tribes or whatever they're called. In addition, I really don't care for the fact that they didn't even introduce the characters, and just threw them into a situation where they are part of a fleet that is running from the Cylons every 33 minutes. Its...jarring, and just bad for a pilot episode. Does anyone have any comments to make???

BSG was an amazing show, its not really about the religions, but the people.