[BrianR]

Okay. Now that I've seen all the series, I can comment better.

The feminization of BSG is too much. Starbuck doesn't work as a woman. Especially a cigar smoking one. It just seems strange to see such masculine behaviour coming from a (cute, non lesbian) chick. And the agression is out of place too.

I can live with the Cylons looking human now...it allows for more plot twists. The new mechanical ones are okay, but I liked the chrome ones better.

The storyline was a bit more complex than I expected, and pleasantly so. I could still follow it's multiple storylines and they were mostly wrapped up by the end. No cliffhangers.
But I thought the Cdr Adama/Capt. Adama was overdone. Too much drama there. And don't get me started on Baltar. That has GOT to go! Where is the old traitorous coward that I know and love?

The special effects are very good...the Vipers and other spacecraft are more realistic (as much as fictional things can be realistic). I like the extensive use of missiles over lasers in the battle scenes...makes more sense to me.

I wish I could have seen more of the Cylons though. Only two partial peeks at their base and nearly none at all of them (other than the humanoid ones). I kinda liked the scenes of the Cylon Leader (or Baltar) sitting up high in an otherwise empty room, spinning the chair around to face the Cylon before them and making decisions like that on the basis of ONE report. Tickled my funny bone it did.

All in all, a good miniseries. Remains to be seen if they can continue the level of sophistication in a weekly series. But I can hope, can't I?

Brian