This Is Going To Hurt
I never saw much of the Battlestar Galactica spinoff Galactica 1980 when it was out. It came available on iTunes recently and I’m too much of a fanboy to resist it, no matter how bad I know it’s going to be.
It’s immediately obvious why some of the fanboy faithful don’t consider Galactica 1980 to be canon. This is supposed to take place thirty years after the original series, but as the title suggests, it takes place in the year 1980. Yet in the original series, they received a transmission purportedly from Earth. Though only the viewers ever saw the transmission, it was clearly the landing at Tranquility Base. Thirty years plus 1969 is… not 1980.
Very amusing window back to the Carter years. Protesters against nuclear power marching around, smog in Los Angeles (wait, that’s different from today?) and the tensions of the Cold War. And all the bad TV dialogue you can shake a stick at.
