TV/Movie Talk - Battlestar Galactica: Razor

Wow, and I thought I was done with Sci-fi Month. Yes, it’s a return to the revamped Battlestar Galactica. Since I finished reviewing Season 3 last month, I’m nearing the end of my retrospective. Before I get to Season 4, I did have one place to stop at.

While I liked Season 3, I gotta admit that it wasn’t the show at its best. Apparently, someone thought the same thing because it was a year before we got Season 4. If you think waiting for Game of Thrones was horrible, try this. Since Season 3 ended the way it did, it was decided to do a stand-alone, made-for-TV movie. It would air on Sci-Fi and then get released a few days later on DVD. Ron D. Moore, the show’s executive producer, was definitely for this because it’d mean that NBC Universal would help fund the production. I remember seeing most of this when it aired in 2007 and I just recently re-watched it.

Instead of taking place during Season 3, Razor goes back in time on us. We go back to Season 2 and see what happened when Lee Adama took command of the Pegasus. We never knew how his time as commander went since it was right before Season 2’s finale. Things are pretty much the same. Starbuck’s still around and not too annoying, Tigh hasn’t lost his eye yet, and Athena (Helo’s Number 8) is still a prisoner. It’s a fun time, ain’t it? So, what happens when most of the main cast is forgotten about and the rest of the time is saved for a new character, flashbacks, and a nod to the original show? Something kind of cool.

Book Review - Foundation

And now, I end Sci-Fi Month… On June 8^th. Maybe saving a 300-page novel for last wasn’t a good idea. It’s especially a problem when that novel isn’t one you can just breeze through. To the three (or four) of y’all out there, I’m sorry. Things are fine. I just had other stuff getting in the way and reading a novel got put on the backburner. Luckily, I’ve gotten to the end and can finally talk about some Asimov. It was either this or A Scanner Darkly and something tells me that Dick’s novel about drug use would have been a bit depressing.

I don’t remember when I first heard about Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series. It was probably when I read I, Robot. I know SFDebris has talked about it as well, so it could have been there too. I’m not so sure. I do know that it’s been one series that’s been on the backburner of novels I’ve acquired over the years. I have a couple of other Foundation books at the house. Now that I’ve read this, maybe I’ll finally get to those.

Foundation as a whole was released in 1951. Before that, four of the five stories were released in Astounding Science Fiction throughout the 1940’s. Asimov essentially wanted to do a story about a declining Galactic Empire. It was supposed to mirror the fall of the Roman Empire. Each story looks at events that occurred before and during the Empire’s fall. It centers on the Foundation, a group led by Hari Seldon in order to preserve the best of what the Empire was.

Foundation

Writer: Isaac Asimov

BRIEF BLURB: This chronicles the events of the Foundation, a institute created to preserve the best of the galaxy as the Galactic Empire falls.