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Battlestar — Galactica The Mini-series [hot]

A: No. The mini-series is rated TV-14 or R-equivalent. It contains genocide, nudity (brief, but present), torture, and intense psychological horror.

While the military is decimated, the civilian government is also wiped out. , the Secretary of Education and 43rd in the line of succession, is sworn in as President. She manages to gather a "ragtag fleet" of surviving civilian ships. battlestar galactica the mini-series

Here’s why that’s a "good feature" broken down: While the military is decimated, the civilian government

: The Battlestar Galactica , a 50-year-old battleship being decommissioned and turned into a museum, survives because its aging commander, William Adama , refused to network its computers, making them immune to Cylon hacking. A New Leadership Here’s why that’s a "good feature" broken down:

The mini-series establishes deep-seated tensions that drive the subsequent four-season series:

In the opening scene, Adamas tells a gathered crew: "We can't let these things tell us what we are. The question is not 'What is a Cylon?' The question is 'What is human?'"

If you watch today, the first thing you notice is the camera work. Inspired by Saving Private Ryan and The West Wing , Moore instructed cinematographers to use shaky-cams, zooms, and organic lighting. There are no lens flares (sorry, JJ Abrams) and no sweeping, pretty spaceship porn. When the Galactica jumps into space, it feels like a naval destroyer, not a cruise liner.