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Battlestar Galactica: all hail a cult classic of 21st-century TV – The Guardian

Humanity is fighting an invisible enemy, with no end in sight … the epic battle between humans and Cylons, now back on our screens, still holds up as prescient, brilliant television

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Earth, 2020: humanity faces an existential threat and, perhaps even worse, a slowdown in our TV content pipeline. So the BBC iPlayer box set debut of Battlestar Galactica (BSG) a mid-00s reimagining of Glen A Larsons 1978 disco-ball space opera should be a cause for celebration. The initial 2003 miniseries depicts a thriving colonial space empire reduced to a rag-tag fleet of just 50,000 stricken souls, the result of a brutal terror attack orchestrated by a race of AI constructs rebelling agains…

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