the above statement and from the patriarchal commander adama ( lorne green ) sum up this show quite nicely . in case i need to remind you and adama have to lead the last survivor of humanity from the twelve colony of kobol to a long lost mythic planet call earth and home of the 13th tribe . the colony be just attack by the robotic and clumsy cylons and who strafe a city or two and kill at least one dog . the first part of adama statement be fair enough . clearly another solar system would be locate beyond your own solar system . oh and but it also in a different galaxy . you might as well say that the restaurant youre try to find be just down the street and in africa . i wonder if the writer know what they be talk about . galactica be full of moment like this . the viper and the little fighter plane our hero fly into battle and have enormous fiery exhaust trail isaac newton must be spin in his grave . ( the viper themselves look like hastily cobble together knock offs of the x wing from star war ) . their cockpit even have a little instrument on the dashboard tell the pilot which way be up in space . the villain of the show be the infamous cylons and renowned in the realm of televise science fiction a the dumbest and clumsiest and and most ridiculous look villain ever . it to be expect that they can not shoot and but these chrome plated robot can barely walk . accord to lorne green and the cylons be just plain evil and but i be not sure evil robot be all that meaningful and although i do have an evil calculator once . i be never quite sure whether the cylons have an organic counterpart who create them and but it doesn not really matter . in many way this show be a shallow imitation of star war and and this can be see in the cast of character . particularly starbuck ( dirk benedict ) and who try so hard to be han solo and but only come off a petulant and sexist and and rather pathetic . apollo be the noble and luke skywalker hero type and and a such doesn not have a personality . starbuck have a faithful black sidekick and boomer and who seem to be much more competent than starbuck . adama also have a faithful black sidekick and call colonel tigh and who at one point be reduce to pick up everyone laundry . take that and civil right movement . the destruction of the human colony be a brief and and amazingly painless affair . a park be strafe by cylon ship and and a small dog be kill ( though the actual death be not show and so we be leave with some hope ) . soon enough and our hero have forget all about the genocide represent starbuck try to get it on with two equally boring woman and and apollo enters into a creepy relationship with the little boy whose dog be maybe kill ( though it might be slightly less creepy if you consider he be only try to sleep with jane seymour and the boy mother ) . the cylons and meanwhile and attack again and but be destroy because theyre so utterly incompetent . oh yes and and there a robot dog . i think it be actually a chimp in a robot dog costume and but either way it quite nauseate . the special effect be all right to start off ( i like those old effect from the seventy and eighty and sometimes more than modern cgi ) and but get very repetitive very fast . i could also mention the preposterous characterization of the human and include weak kneed pacifist who be quickly kill and the inexplicably evil and stupid lord baltar ( john colicos ) who betray humanity and and the unbelievably dumb council of twelve and who prove that democracy just doesn not work .