BSG Razor

We watched the original series when it was first on in the late 70s and enjoyed it then. We watched and enjoyed the war series Black Sheep Squadron, and, thanks to the heads up from JP, really enjoyed Space Above and Beyond (even thought it started slow – like Pags, we thought they should have gotten their planes sooner). We have watched the new series since the mini series and finally watched Razor last week.

We keep hoping to like it. The military stuff looks nice. We like most of the cast. The radio broadcast bugs us – but only minimally. We just don’t like the series. The pacing was super slow. We realized that when they had finally reached Kobol at the end of season one that the miniseries and first season had only covered material that had all been covered in the pilot of the original series.

They had also gutted out most of the humor of the original series. We were okay with them changing the genders of Boomer and Starbuck. But they made Starbuck grim when he used to be the one that helped keep the balance by being lighter than Apollo.
The updated Cylon raiders and Vipers looked fine and we liked how the Vipers moved in space. The new mechanical Cylons looked fabulous – they were just woefully underused.

Any of the characters that we ended liking turned out to be cylons. Or else they quickly died. The only two exceptions are Adama and President Roslin who remained human. Maybe this was what they meant to do, portray the robots as more human and likeable that the actual humans.
Razor had more of the same. Being compressed, it didn’t drag as much but did have enough cases to remind us of the lack of humor in the series. We did like the central character who, of course, dies. The one bright spot was seeing the old Cylons again done up in the new CG. Go toasters!