Perry de Havilland on "Battlestar Galactica"

Perry starts his mini-series review by stating early on that he's not a looking-back-with-longing fan of the original TV series. Which is good, because I like Perry's writing and I'd hate to have to consign him to the outer circles of hell. Anyway, I think I may have seen all of half an episode of the original show and thereafter referred to it as "Cattlecar Galaxative".

To my surprise, and probably even more to his, he liked the mini-series and now has hope for the full-blown series to follow:

Wow. A show which truly, truly, truly does not pull any punches and proffers a middle finger to the sugar coating of so much of Hollywood's offerings that are aimed at the mainstream. We see nothing less that genocide: the steady nuclear annihilation of the human race. We see men women and children (yes, children) killed pitilessly on one of the darkest bits of sci-fi drama I have ever seen: the Götterdämmerung on 12 planets. Moreover we see the handful of dazed and traumatised survivors on the Galactica and the refugee fleet which forms around this last remnant of the human military, act like, well, people who have just seen their entire civilisation and 99.9% of their species exterminated by an implacable enemy.

I'm still not totally convinced, but I'll try to keep an open mind on this. After all, when I heard that Joss Whedon was doing a "western in space", I expected something awful. Instead, what I got was "Firefly", one of my favourite TV shows (unfortunately, not too many others agree with me there, so it got cancelled). I treasure hopes for the upcoming movie.