It is surprisingly good. There is some very poor acting here and there - largely due to english as a second or third language issues I suspect. But the plot is adult and complicated. The writing quite good. The set pieces believable. The "bad guys" all have some pretty good reasons for being bad, even.

There are of course the predictable inconsistencies wth the world building. For instance they attempt to deal with the real-word physics of zero-g and ∆v which I applaud. But it sometimes comes at laughably inconsistent price: are we under acceleration or not?; If they are at zero g how can they be drinking coffee from open mugs?; etc.

But the political intrigue, characters and relationships are overall fantastic.

Expansive.

Excellent show. Even better series of books. Highly recommended.

Love the series. All the way through. I agree: it's today's Galactica with a touch of neediness that brings it to the nex level. Complex characters, interesting dialogue, lots of science, great visual effects, carefully crafted. Yeah, I really like it.

*nerdiness

I certainly likes season 1, Thomas Jain is a qualified leading man. But this doofus that has advanced to that role, the captain of the contrera or whatever, is terrible. Generic, boring white guy, a quarter step above the kid from Valerian. Literally ever other character on the ship is more interesting.

Also... Not a great job from Chad Coleman here, really phoning it in.

Lynn Margulis is not the only biologist to have come to the conclusion that evolution from prokaryotes to eukaryotes cells was a big deal, or even the transition from the sea to the land. But hey, if reading her work made you appreciate this show more, great! (See, Adam Kadmon? This is the sort of stuff I was talking about.)

I'll chime in as another fan of the series, and an even bigger fan of the books. I agree with Sportlandia that the casting for Holden was poor, but I'll go a step further to say that the casting for most of the show was poor. Everyone is probably a decade younger than they should be (or more), and if the show is going to follow the events of Nemesis Games, that will become problematic.

Mudede, if you enjoy science fiction reading for pleasure, they're worth a read. Though it can't make it to the screen due to practical and budgetary reasons, the authors take pains to keep it as "hard sci-fi" as they can, including physical differences between those raised "down the (gravity) well" and not, and they do a fine job keeping in mind the factors that Dr.Zaius points out above.

@7 hey, Lynn Margulis is kind of a big deal on the eukaryotic cell.

I'll flip it, if this show gives anyone a greater feel for the miracle of the eukaryotic cell, that's a win.

Ganymede. With two "e". Probably the second place we will colonize, after Callisto, because off all the water. Where there is water, all we need to do is add power and there is air to breathe and fuel for our rockets. Europa has lots of water but is too far inside Jupiter's killer magnetosphere.

@9 fixed.

@Knat

Duly noted.

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In the words of Peter Thiel: "We could have gone to Mars, but instead we went to Iraq."

I'm also reminded of the Apollo 14 mission and the forgotten fact that Black America protested it. 200 of them traveled to Cape Canaveral to foreground their needs over the greater mission, the greater ideal, to expand mankind into space.

Why spend money on space missions--with the ultimate goal of colonization--when the government could be spending it on uplift programs? All the major black magazines of the day endorsed this logic (Ebony and so on). Even many white liberals agreed.

Man is driven by his spirit, not by material rewards, however; Marxists deny this even though they know it's true. The achievement of glory is more important than the expansion of comfort and security for man. Even more important than a single life, or many lives. Why is this so?