| Battlestar Galactica - Season 2.0 (Episodes 1-10) | 
 enlarge | Actor: Jamie Bamber
Studio: Sci-Fi Channel, The
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  363 reviews
Sales Rank: 495
Format: Ac-3, Box Set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language)
Number Of Items: 3
Running Time: 438
Discs: 3
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 1
MPN: D29375D
ISBN: 1417075058
UPC: 025192937521
EAN: 9781417075058
ASIN: B000BNI90Y
Theatrical Release Date: January 14, 2005
Release Date: December 20, 2005
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The first half of Battlestar Galactica's second season left no doubts about the continuing excellence of the best science fiction TV series of 2005. Beginning with the Colonial Fleet separated, Col. Tigh (Michael Hogan) botching his temporary command, and Capt. Adama (Edward James Olmos) near death after a Cylon assassination attempt, series producer/developer Ronald D. Moore and his gifted writing staff packed more into these 10 episodes than most series manage in a full season. Maintaining its reputation as an adult drama, the series is compellingly anchored by the gravitas of Olmos and Mary McDonnell, whose role as Fleet President Laura Roslin grows more complex as she reveals her diagnosis of breast cancer and defies Adama, playing the "religious card" with her conviction that prophetic visions will lead the embattled fleet toward its legendary home planet Earth. As Adama's son Apollo (Jamie Bamber) wrestles with his role in Roslin's mutinous agenda, paranoia runs high as Cylon copies (or "avatars") of Boomer (Grace Park) complicate matters aboard Galactica and on Kobol, where a lost Raptor crew struggles to survive and Dr. Baltar (James Callis) endures the increasingly haunting and manipulative intrusions into his tormented psyche by Number Six (Tricia Helfer), the seductive Cylon who holds the secret to the Cylon master plan to destroy humankind. Further action takes place on Cylon-occupied Caprica, where Starbuck (Katee Sackhoff) and Helo (Tamoh Penikett) discover a group of human resistance fighters who survived the Cylons' nuclear attack in season 1. As all of these plot threads are expertly interwoven, the high-stakes conflict of BG 2.0 culminates in a suspenseful mid-season cliffhanger. Through all of this, Battlestar Galactica maintains consistently high standards of intelligent drama and well-justified, story-based use of spectacular special effects, while developing rich relationships across a broad spectrum of interesting supporting characters. The series' large and likable cast is well-used throughout (even smaller roles are given adequate dimension), and Moore's "podcast" commentaries provide a smart, thorough analysis of the show's writing process and conceptual evolution. Yes, it's undeniably true that this half-season DVD set is a blatantly commercial ploy to lure more and more viewers into the ongoing season (which resumed in January 2006), but you can hardly blame Universal for capitalizing on a high-quality series. With solid ratings, good scripts, and a devoted cast and crew, Battlestar Galactica showed every indication of thriving toward a third season and beyond. --Jeff Shannon
Description
Sci-fi's hottest TV series returns as Battlestar Galactica 2.0 blasts onto DVD in Dolby 5.1 Surround Sound. As the epic second season begins, the fight to save humanity rages on - even as civil war looms within the fleet between the followers of President Roslin and Commander Adama. Relive all the intensity and excitement aboard the Galactica with a supernova of explosive bonus features, including deleted scenes and podcasts. It's a heart-pounding adventure you can't afford to miss!
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 Great show, delivered in 2 days! August 30, 2008
The show is amazing I highly recommend it. Amazon got it to me in 2 days!! Best Buy charges 21 dollars more and it takes a gallon of gas to get there.
 Chick Power gone way too far. Unrealistic and Offensive. July 31, 2008
0 out of 5 found this review helpful
When I started watching season 1, I thought this was a good sci-fi show. But after watching the first 10 episodes of Season 2, I'm disturbed by where this is going. This show is dominated by "alpha women" who are in charge and are mean bullies that yell at, strike, and abuse the men in the show. First of all, women are not half that powerful in real life. In real life, women usually try to get their way by manipulation, scheming, and feminine wiles, and rarely by overt aggression. 99% of women are afraid of confrontation in real life. The Starbuck character is a complete joke. Her imitation of the Starbuck from the original series is totally ridiculous and unreal. There aren't any women like that in real life. She smokes cigars and she's supposed to be the best fighter pilot and she thinks she can beat men up. I never heard of any woman being the best fighter pilot in any group. Women have trouble with compass directions and spacial thinking, so how can one be the best pilot? Women have weak upper bodies and will get severely beat up if they have a real fight with a man. Men are better than women in every sport. So it's ridiculous and false to have a female character like Starbuck. Then there's the female Cylon inside Baltar's mind. It's awful how she keeps abusing him. And then there's the commander of the Pegasus. She's a brutal b*tch too and she ranks above Adama. I don't know of any very high ranking female officers in the real U.S. military. I've never heard of a woman general or a woman captain of a navy ship. Men are the soldiers for a reason. Men are the stronger sex. However, women do have a tendency to be controlling and to interfere in people's lives and they try to tell people how to live. That part of Battlestar Galactica is true. I hate to have anyone try to control me and boss me around, especially a woman. So this aspect of Battlestar Galactica is rather disturbing. I try to enjoy the show anyway, but it's difficult sometimes, since the women of Galactica go really far in being offensive. I really hate that they made this such a "chick power" show with all these abusive females. It is unnecessary and offensive.
BSG Season 2.0 July 11, 2008
I enjoy this series about as much as anything I can think of. It is wonderful to watch it on DVD and not have to watch the reruns on SciFi channel. I do wish they had released seasons 2.0 and 2.5 together on the same DVD set. We could surely have saved some money.
Excellent June 4, 2008
The new BSG did not catch my interest the few times I stopped channel surfing to sample it. In a conversation with a coworker my interest was sparked and I bought the series.... Excellent story telling. I like the fact that not every aspect is "futuristic" to the point of fantanstic, e.g. still using projectiles versus LASERs or particle beam weapons.
The daily machinations of the crew are believeable, at least when compared to today's services.
Sorry to see it end
the new battlestar galactica June 4, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
this series is just magnificant. it's action, drama and si-fi all in one.
what it isn't is funny. the new crew find bad luck one turn after the next fighting the cylons but hey bad turns are real life.
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