Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome on Blu-ray

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Link: https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Battl...-Blu-ray/59295
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Now that the Blu-ray has finally been released, simply shocked that a topic hasn't been created for it yet. At any rate, I read the official Blu-ray.com review and I can't believe how much the reviewer was so disappointed in the film that he seems to make all kinds of unfair assumptions about the film.

First, let's start with his characterization of the young Lieutenant Adama. I don't know about you, but I wasn't disappointed in the casting of Luke Pasqualino. The reviewer states that he sounds and acts nothing like the Adama in the SciFi television series. Of course he doesn't, this is Adama when he was younger and I hate to say it, but he's going to develop into the character that was skillfully portrayed by Edward Olmos.

When we're young, we have all kids of rebellious attitudes and characteristics that we eventually grow out of. The simply fact of the matter is, this younger portrayal of Adama will eventually grow out of this "cocky" and "rebellious" nature that we see in Blood & Chrome. The version of Adama we see in the TV series simply hasn't seen the kind of combat and learned the wisdom and patience that comes with the experience of war. If Blood and Chrome had been an actual TV series, I believe that the writers would have began the process of evolving the character toward the person we have seen in the Battlestar Galactica TV series.

Remember how Starbuck started out in the Battlestar Galactica TV series? She began as a cocky pilot but eventually we saw her character begin to evolve and she started to grow out of the cockiness we saw earlier on in the TV series.

Second, I disagree that Blood & Chrome isn't better than the webisodes from the TV series. I actually enjoyed Blood & Chrome and found the web series to be more interesting than the previous web series. I think trying to compare to Blood & Chrome to the 2004 Battlestar Galactica series is an unfair justification. This web series simply gives us a taste of what we could expect from an actual TV series of the same name. Sure, it's going to be similar to Top Gun but also work on bridging this series to what we have come to see in the 2004 series.

Without a Blood & Chrome TV series to make a fair comparison to the previous series, it would be unjustified to make any kind of comparison to the first Sci-Fi series.

Finally, I actually enjoyed the Blood & Chrome web series. I think if you enjoyed Top Gun and Battlestar Galactica, that Blood & Chrome adds elements from both and creates something new, unique and refreshing to a franchise series that had waned in the last season of its production (Season 4). While there were some good episodes, it had definitely slipped since its first season.

Hopefully, SciFi will greenlight a TV series based on Blood & Chrome and give fans what they've been waiting for.