30 Day Sci-Fi Challenge - Day 26

Best Battle -- Colony Fleet vs. Cylons above New Caprica

This was one of the most amazing sequences in history. The image above is what I see as one of the greatest moments in all of Sci-Fi History by the way.

This battle was the rescue mission to save the people stranded on New Caprica. Humans had made that their new home until the Cylons came and occupied it. It took a long time, and was a dangerous mission but both Adamas finally decided it was time to attack and get those motherfraking humans off that motherfraking planet!

So many great scenes. Galactica falling through the atmosphere and then jumping away, the Pegasus being used as a torpedo to take out two Baseships, and of course the after math of this battle lasted many episodes.

If I had to choose this topic everyday I might pick a different battle every day, but this is the one I chose today.  And hey, it makes sense.

30 Day Sci-Fi Challenge -- Day 11

Favorite Space Film or Series -- Battlestar Galactica

I loved Battlestar so much that there were times I convinced myself that I loved it more than I loved another science fiction show of the time. One clue, it won the title of favorite Sci-Fi series in this Challenge. While I wasn't very pleased with certain aspects of the finale I still do love part of that episode, and the finale season is simply incredible.

When I watch a show I'm always looking for something I call "the moment". "The Moment" is something that happens in a show where I sit up in my chair and realize the show is different from almost any in the past, and I WANT to see more. This show gets the record for the earliest "moment". It happens in the Miniseries, and getting a little spoilery, is when the new President Roslin orders the FTL Ships to jump away leaving thousands behind to be killed by the Cylons in order to save as many as she can. The scene is breathtaking. The score in this scene is chilling, and we are forced to listen to the pleads and screams of the people being left behind. It, more than anything else in the miniseries showed me what this show would be. A gritty, realistic depiction of survival.