By JAKE HALLMAN1) Is it really worth buying when about half of the movie is footage that you’ve already bought if you own the Season 1-2 DVDs? Yes, when that new footage contains topless shots of various no-name Galactica women.
2) No, nobody you know or care about appears naked, except for the chick who played Ana Maria in I Am Legend. And even that’s probably a body double, ‘cause I didn’t see a butterfly tattoo.
3) At some point the BG producers completely abandoned a couple of concepts. The first, Cylon spines glowing during sex, was ridiculous and needed to go anyway. The second, of a culture that had a hexagonal rather than rectangular design aesthetic, was cool, and enforced a little bit of “alien-ness.” No “cut corners” here, sadly.
4) It’s good to see Rick Worthy, playing the Cylon Number Four models, getting a lot of airtime. He’s a good actor, and needed to do more than just stand around being concerned.
5) It’s not the Number Ones that are evil. It’s Cavil that’s evil. Nice take on the character. In fact, in the whole movie we see that Cylons have a lot more individuality than we expected.
6) Seeing as the whole piece is from the Cylon perspective, we feel their frustration at those darned pesky humans. When several foiled plots over the course of a couple of seasons are smashed together in close succession like this, it just accentuates the Keystone Kops nature of the whole thing. Lucky for us it was all in “The Plan.” Whatever the hell The Plan is.
7) Edward James Olmos is quite the director. It’d be easy to make a movie full of action set-pieces a la Razor. This is a slow, careful character study of the bad guys – who maybe aren’t that bad at all in the grand scheme of things. Not much blows up, but it sure was nice to see a good 10 minute montage of the Colonies’ destruction.
8) If you’re gonna have Boxey, then I want to see his robot dog, gods-daggit! Er, -dammit!
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