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   From: mvp@web1.calweb.com   
      
   atropos@mac.com wrote:   
   >BATTLESTAR GALACTICA (1978) - Premiere episode. I haven't watched this   
   >in more than 30 years. It's amazing how much of it makes no sense at   
   >all, yet didn't seem to register at the time.   
      
   Oh, yeah.  The only reason I kept watching was that it was the   
   only vaguely skiffish thing on TV at the time.  Some episodes   
   were better than others (I really wanted to know where they were   
   going with Count Iblis) but I finally bailed in disgust when they   
   revealed that the whole rag-tag fleet had been going sub-light   
   the whole show; only the Galactica itself could "go lightspeed."   
      
   >The Cylons somehow managed to utterly destroy 12 entire planets in about   
   >a half hour with just a handful of fighters that did nothing but make   
   >strafing runs on the surface, literally shooting at individual people.   
      
   Yeah, one of the many brain-dead things about this series.   
      
   >The show's writers don't seem to understand the difference between a   
   >solar system and a galaxy.   
      
   "Firefly" seemed to have this problem in the intro to some of   
   the earlier episodes, but later, they made it clear that it was   
   a solar system with an unreasonable number of habitable planets/moons.   
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