Razor reviews pouring in

While most of us wont get to see Battlestar Galactica: Razor until November 24th, many bloggers and entertainment personalities HAVE seen it at the public screenings this past Monday night in select cities and the reviews so far are great.

From what I’ve read, the production and quality of the movie is superb and up to par with any big-budget film. One thing that I’ve always found amazing about BSG is the marvelous special effects and cinematography. You just don’t feel like you are in a cheap science fiction show. The only other sci-fi series that even compares to that particular quality would have been Firefly in my opinion.

The movie focuses on Kendra Shaw, played by Stephanie Jacobson (and pictured above with Lee Adama), and we see what happens on the Pegasus though her eyes, a ship which is being run by Admiral Cain. Cain was a key figure in season two of the series, as the Pegasus was the only other battlestar to survive the genocide on the seven colonies.

She and Admiral Adama faced off and even ordered each others deaths in one seriously awesome midseason cliffhanger.

The movie’s plot sounds absolutely exhilarating. The story begins right after Lee Adama takes the command of the Pegasus after the episode “The Captain’s Hand.” Shaw ends up serving as Adama’s XO after Lee sees some strength in her.

Part of the movie is done in flashbacks to Shaw’s time on the Pegasus before meeting up with Galactica and what happened to them. But in the meantime, Admiral Adama sends them on a mission to find a lost science Raptor.

Apparently that mission ties very closely with the Razor Flashbacks that are being shown on SciFi.com right now. I’ve seen them all and they are great. A young Admiral Adama discovers experiments on humans by Cylons at the end the first Cylon war. Chilling stuff.

There is supposedly an awesome twist with this plot that sends us careening into season four, whenever that ends up being.

I can’t fraking wait.

The movie is only 87 minutes long says Wired.com, but the extended DVD that will be coming out should have even more juicy stuff that you wont see on SciFi.

I actually can’t decide if I should watch it then or wait for the DVD, or just watch both for frak’s sake.

I am leaning to the latter.

By the way, for folks who aren’t into this show…I suggest you give it a try. Wired has a fantastic article from a few years ago about how BSG is the best science fiction TV ever, and I would completely agree.