DVD
Mission Galactica
The Cylon Attack

Starring: Lorne Green, Dirk Benedict and Lloyd Bridges
Universal Playback
RRP: £15.99
8249301
Certificate: U
Available 06 August 2007


Low on fuel, the
Galactica encounters the Battlestar Pegasus. While Commander Adama believes the search for fuel is paramount, the commander of the Pegasus, Cain, wants only one thing... to attack the Cylons...!

Oh dear. Mission Galactica is a combination of two TV stories - The Living Legend and Fire in Space - and a rather poor combination at that. Chopping up episodes to try and make a feature length story has been done before with other shows, and usually to limited effect. Mission Galactica is no different.

In trying to push together two entirely different stories so that they appear as one, dialogue and scenes are cut or re-edited, resulting in confusion and hanging plot threads. Considering that The Living Legend
was a two part story anyway, and a half-decent one at that, it surely would have made sense to simply use it and nothing else for a feature length story.

Fire in Space is a poor episode, what with borrowing effects material from The Towering Inferno and suffering from a very weak plot. It’s obvious that the intent behind its inclusion is to add to the drama of the action taking place in The Living Legend, but really, it doesn’t help at all.

For fans of the original Battlestar Galactica this will be a disappointment, so this really is for collectors only.

 

 

Jeff Watson

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