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‘Battlestar Galactica: Razor’ adds a nice dimension to the BSG story
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The extended version of the November 2007 made-for-TV movie “Battlestar Galactica: Razor” is much frakkin’ better to watch on DVD for all the reasons that apply regarding the rest of Battlestar Galactica” (BSG) Season 4.0 DVD set that includes this movie. The sound and picture quality are far superior than I get from my cable company, and not having any commercial interruptions makes following the somewhat complex story easier.
The movie also further renewed my interest in the series as well and made me wonder why the frakkin’ SIGHfi (not a typo.) Channel does not seem to want to provide good-quality original science fiction.
The movie itself tells two interesting stories of the Battlestar Pegasus that I believe is comparable to the Battlestar Galactica that is the prime focus of BSG; I ask the die-hard fans out there to please be kind if the capacities of the two ships differ. I admit proudly that I am more of a Stargate guy.
The stories focus on Lieutenant Kendra Shaw, who joins the crew of the Pegasus very shortly before the attack of the robotic Cylons on humanity that requires the retreat into space that triggers the events on which BSG is based. The term “Razor” refers to Shaw and other soldiers who are trained to be military weapons. It is worth noting that Pegasus and Galactica are the only battlestars, which are ginormous military spaceships, that survived the attack.
One story involves the same early struggles and dilemmas aboard the Pegasus that the Galactica crew faced; this included deciding the degree of force that the soldiers would use to obtain supplies and other resources from non-military spacecraft that survived the attack.
The other story was set 10 months later after Pegasus and Galactica joined forces to battle the Cylons. I was able to follow the story of the Pegasus crew searching for a base from which the Cylons were conducting gruesome experiments to create a Cylon-human hybrid much better after watch the S 4.0 episodes that discussed the hybrid. Watching the movie also helped me better understand the storyline regarding the fate of the Galactica pilot Starbuck, who regularly drank substances far stronger than a Venti double espresso with a shot of chocolate.
I honestly had not remembered much about Shaw, but the movie and the sacrifice that Shaw made at the end of it put her contributions to the battle with the Cylons and related search for earth in good perspective. All of this shows the value of owning these episodes, and the rest of the series, on DVD.
My one complaint is that, unlike the episodes in the S 4.0 section of this set, some of the effects in “Razor” seemed to be below-average CGI segments. The metallic Cylons were inserted very badly into a battle scene on Pegasus, and I swear that I saw outlines on fighter craft that were having a dogfight in space.
Further, I noted only one “naughty word” that censors would have not allowed on the unrated version of “Razor” that appeared on the DVD. I also did not think that that one was any frakkin’ big deal.
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