It was a ""reimagined"" miniseries in December of last year that rebooted the story from scratch. Diehards seemed to hate it. I found it interesting enough to warrant watching again. A little heavy on the ""hot chick for the sake of having a hot chick"" factor that has slowly degraded Star Trek over the years, but I kind of dug the battle camera stuff and some of the ""darker"" decisions that had to be made in it.

The mini did well enough that SciFi saw fit to approve a 13 episode series that starts in January. They are holding out on a second season decision, but are prepared to approve it if the numbers look good enough. I assume this thing is expensive as hell to make, since they''ve been working for a year on the series and aren''t even sure how far they''ll go with it.

What you found on scifi.com was probably a scheduled rebroadcast of the original mini. It only makes sense to show it before kicking off the real thing to refresh our memories.

I''m ignorant of the way these things work, but wouldn''t that only matter if the Nielsen families were downloading them?

Available allready?!!? sh*t well I''m off to bit torrent search heaven, I had no idea.....

It''s worth noting that they have also been re showing the 70''s ones and if your doing Tivo like guide searches you will get a lot of hits on that.

Yeah this has been on on Sky One in the UK for a couple of weeks now. I''ve only caught about 3 episodes, and can''t really seem to like it. The shaky cam is out of control, and almost every scene seems to have some crazy cuts. Also I''m yet to see an actual robot Cylon, just the new super-cylon''s that look just like humans.

It seems to be the kind of show that you really need to keep on top of, as the episode I saw last night after missing it for a few weeks didn''t make any sense in some parts...

I really want this to be good, and really want it to last more than one season (assuming it''s actually good and deserves to). While I don''t really like some of the things they''ve done (did we REALLY need sexual tension between Starbuck and Apollo? Weren''t there enough females in the original to have sexual tension with?) and some of the things they''re omitting (where are my robot cylons dammit? Hot-chick cylons are neato and all, but I want my shiny tin cans with red dots and mechanical hums), it''s still a sci-fi show with potential to be good. Certainly it can''t be worse than the ignominous end the original met with. I like to pretend Galactica 1980 never happened (though a good explanation of why it sucked so bad can be found here)

I know the pilot wa awhile ago, but they DID show the robot cyclons in the very beginning.

They were VERY evil looking.

Also, once again, I wonder if people may not like it because of the differences. Another case of memory made sweeter?

http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/trailers/

Go here and look at the episode 1 preview trailer.

I think you''ll like what you see.

Karma, thanks for the link. I''m glad to see they''re going to be used in the series, even if the look has been streamlined.

Hmmmm, Fridays, you say? Up against Enterpri$e? Exceeeeeeeeellent. I smell ratings drop and cancellation in the near future.

I thought the first airing was worth a good look for the series. Definitely different from the original, but it had it''s on ''thang''.

I''d hate to see that. While the mini definitely got some mixed reviews, I haven''t seen the same thing about the series, itself. Personally, I''ve rather enjoyed the episodes that have aired so far (with the exception of Ep 5... you''ll see what I mean, if you haven''t already). Really the weakest part of it so far has been Starbuck. They''ve really hamstrung themselves by trying to put Dirk Benedict in a woman''s body; it just doesn''t translate well, though they''ve begun to add character elements to her recently. The other characters, however, have begun to flesh out nicely. I''m actually looking forward to seeing the eps over again on a television, on the Fridays where my wife hasn''t made plans for us, that is.