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Battlestar Galactica – The Plan (Review)

October 20, 2009 (123 Responses)

THE PLAN is badly executed, cynical and not worth your time or money…

I’m a huge Battlestar Galactica (BSG) fan, in particular the now infamous modern take on the series. Granted it had some dodgy moments, but overall it was (and remains) a wonderfully realistic and gritty take on a old sci-fi story with great twists and deep pockets when it came to special effects. I really enjoyed the series and even though I wasn’t particularly happy with the ending, I could deal with it. After all it had killer robots, babes, space-based dogfights, religious overtones, death and destruction and a continuing sense of menace each week. Still, all good things come to an end and the show finished over a year ago.

Since then I believe there is a movie and even a mini-series in the works, mostly due to the potential commercial opportunities to rake in some cash I’d imagine rather than any real artistic need to tell another BSG story, but out of the blue I came across this entity – Battlestar Galactica: The Plan, which proported to tell the entire series again, only this time from the Cylon perspective.

Interesting? Might be worth a look, I thought.

I was wrong; dead wrong. This is quite simply some of the worst shit I’ve seen cobbled together in a long time. There is no new insight or deeper understanding of what the Cylons were up to, no real difference in the story arc or plot that took place in the main series and certainly no reason for anyone to part with hard cash to watch it.

It’s a very cynical piece of exploitation, trying to cash in on the name and fame of the series and I strongly urge you to avoid it at all costs. There is nothing new here other than to re-tell the exact same story through the eyes of the “1″ series Cylon model, who promptly spends the 2 hours organising the other Cylon models to do whatever they can to kill off humanity right up to the point of the truce that breaks out between them. And that’s it. Honestly.

At the end of two hours I was left with an intense feeling of ‘so what’?, and if you manage to watch this you too will wonder why the hell you bothered. It’s a shame really because the series itself was fantastic for the most part. I hope the upcoming mini-series and movie don’t drive a bigger set of nails into the coffin… but I guess we will just have to wait and see on that score.

This really is  a cynical piece of commercial exploitation which fails to hit the target at almost every opportunity… avoid at all costs.

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    Very good review, i just watched the plan and luckly for free because its a ofense to all bsg fans out there, theres nothing new in it and come on we all know how the show ends they get to Earth, the galactica goes to the sun and thats it, its different from Stargate Sg1 or Atlantis where they left the door open for even more good stories .

    I mean there a lot stuff they could use, what happened to Caprica, i mean the cylons are not there anymore and i bet there were some people left around . They could start again .

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    I really liked it. There’s far more to it than the above review describes. If you liked BSG, I think you’ll enjoy this. It’s largely a character piece, and the performances (especially from Dean Stockwell) are absolutely superb.

    Contrary to the above review, it does reveal/explain various things throughout the series (although not the ending!) although I won’t describe what they are in case I spoil it for anyone.

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    Come on everybody who is a true fan does not like this thing, there are only a few details explained nothing new and lets face it since we know how bsg ends theres not much left .

    And Like_it this is an opnion respect it, and google it around and you will see that the plan was a failure, of course if you are 10 years old and dont think much you can say “hey a new bsg movie” .

    Im looking forward for the new stuff since bsg is one of the best scifi shows ever and as i said before theres a lot that can be done with it .

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