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Battlestar Galactica – Season 2 Episodes 1 – 10 Review

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My reviews of the rebooted Battlestar Galactica continue, thanks to the currently airing shows taking a break for most of December and January. The first half of Season 2 is a strong set of episodes, the first bunch of episodes being split between three locations. It also sees the debut of the Battlestar Pegasus, which given this second watch through is also the first time I’m watching after having seen the original series, it was fun to see the differences, and slight similarities, it carries over with that storyline. Let’s have a look!

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Blake’s 7 – 40th Anniversary Audio Special: The Way Ahead Review

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B7 The Way Ahead

It’s Blake’s 7’s 40th Anniversary (or at least it was, yesterday) and to celebrate Big Finish released a special two-hour audio drama with as many of the surviving cast as they could get their hands on, and damn fun it is too! A fun though possibly fan-divisive framing story sets the tone for two stories featuring a new character called Avalon, set during the early days and in Series 3 respectively. So let’s take a look at “The Way Ahead”!

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Battlestar Galactica – Season 1 Overall Review

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BSG Season 1

The first season (or really the second half of the first season, if including the mini-series) of Battlestar Galactica’s reboot is a good mix of dreary reality and great sci-fi, as well as very hard to write about without giving spoilers for the series as a whole, which I’m trying to avoid… I’m also a bit late with this review due to the amount of new seasons or new shows entirely that have returned or debuted on TV since the start of October, but here we are anyway! Just don’t expect the first half of Season 2 until next year… Right, with that said, Season 1 then!

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Blake’s 7 – Audio Series 4 “Crossfire – Part 1” Review

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Blake’s 7 Full Cast audio reaches Series 4, and this time the series isn’t consisting of a single boxset, instead it’s spread over three, four-story boxes! Once again we’re set in the third TV series (due to Blake being off limits due to death and the rights to TV Series 4 being complicated, this is likely to continue…) and we see the beginning of a civil war, with the crew of the Liberator in the middle of it! How do these four stories fare? Well…

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Battlestar Galactica – The Mini-Series Review

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BSG Miniseries

From fun family adventure to baby neck-snapping, it’s hard to find two series with the same name any more different from each other. My re-watch / review watch of the 2000s Battlestar Galactica feels completely different from my first, not only because of how TV has moved on the decade and a half since, but because of sitting through the original series shortly before watching this. So let’s get started in what will be more infrequent and condensed than the original BSG reviews due to time constraints and the general feeling that a lot has been said on this show compared to the older sci-fi shows I’ve watched / plan to watch… So… Yeah. Mini-series!

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The Expanse – Season 2 Overall Review

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Expanse S2

Similar to Gotham Season 3, The Expanse Season 2 arrived on the UK Netflix some time after its original US airing, where I gladly binged it over a week or so. Also like Gotham I had planned on doing a more detailed breakdown, but didn’t have the time, so a single overall review it is! The Expanse started off slow, but now in Season 2 it roared forward, and was frequently thrilling to watch. Let’s take a closer look!

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Galactica 1980 – Episodes 6 – 10 Review

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Galactica 1980 comes to a close already, though given the “quality” I’m not really surprised the show fell flat on its face. Just like the first five there are a few brief ideas that work, but far too much that doesn’t, apart from the last episode, which focuses on Starbuck from the Original Series, that’s actually good! Hooray! Let’s take a closer look at the end of the original Battlestar Galactica run…

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Galactica 1980 – Episodes 1 – 5 Review

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After a break from Galactica I’m back to finish off the original run… admittedly I took the break because I’d heard how back Galactica 1980 was and wasn’t in a hurry to dive in, and I can say that… it’s pretty bad, but not quite the end of us all that I was lead to believe. That being said, the first three episodes are one story, and episodes 4 and 5 are similarly linked (and are far, far worse than the first three…) so maybe it just keeps getting worse from here… Hooray?! Let’s take a look…

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Sapphire and Steel – Assignment 6 Review

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Sapphire and Steel A6

Sapphire and Steel reaches its conclusion, which feels far too soon but then I guess I’m comparing it to other longer running British sci-fi shows like Blake’s 7 and, well, Doctor Who, not that there are many shows that can match that episode count! Anyway, this episode has all the creepy atmosphere and question asking that comes with good examples of the series, but it also gives us a lot more of a glimpse into the world where the duo come from, which is certainly rare (and makes it feel more like the end, if nothing else) Let’s take a closer look…

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Sapphire and Steel – Assignment 5 Review

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Sapphire and Steel A5

Sapphire and Steel’s fifth “Assignment” is … odd. It’s more quaint 30s murder mystery than it is anything resembling the show as its been presented in the past four stories. That being said, it did have some nice sci-fi twists in it, but in the end it was just annoying, with stereotypical posh dinner guests and all that bollocks taking up more screen time. It’s just not my thing, and for that I wasn’t a massive fan. Let’s take a look in more detail…

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