well, I saw the remake tonight and had mixed feelings. on the one hand, i liked how they portrayed the cylon attack on the colonies...especially with the images of the nuclear bombardment. it was very dark, and it made you feel (at least i did) the level of loss that was occurring. the space combat was very well done, IMO. i liked how they made the camera pan across the screen during the combat scenes. it was sorta jerky but it made it look sorta realistic, as if someone was videotaping it with a camcorder. but what i liked most about the space combat was the subdued sound. you could hear the weapons firing and the explosions, but overall the combat was quiet. it was a good effect, IMO. overall the special effects and visuals were very good.
what i didn't like about the show was the "hello i'm new in the scene - lets have sex!" thing going on. i didn't like that in battlestar galactica. it just didn't feel right. and the whole female starbuck thing. don't get me started. i'm not anti-feminism or anything like that...don't get me wrong. but what made starbuck great was the brotherhood and comraderie(sp?) between starbuck and apollo, along with his devil-may-care attitude. that relationship should remain unchanged if you're gonna slap on the name "battlestar galactica". if you want to explore that same comraderie and brotherhood between female and male warriors, make up a new female pilot. don't go fixing what aint broke.