Divided interest: Galactica or Earthsea

Last Sunday they were airing the second part of new Battlestar Galactica. The Battlestar Galactica starred Lorne Greene, Richard Hatch, Dirk Benedict. A fleet of star ships fleeing their world (which was composed of 12 planets) destroyed by their enemies the Cylons. The rag tag fleet is in search of the legendary 13 planet called Earth. If you suspect that this show has religious overtones, the twelve planets and the twelve tribes of Israel and their search for the 13th planet/tribe, it has but not as deep as CS Lewis "Silent Planet" trilogy. The series came out during the time of Star Wars and thrived for a while. Although I must confess I was rooting for the cylons and there phrase "by your command". They seemed to be more interesting. And of course there was the traitor Count Baltar, played by John Calicos who was beheaded in the first part or was it in the movie? but subsequently appeared in the series with the cylons.

Now they have revived or reinvented Battlestar Galactica with Edward James Olmos as the less than benign Commander Adama. Lorne Greene seemed to more benign, it just might be my mind playing tricks on me.

(SPOILER: The twist seems to be that the Cylons were robotic creatures created by Man who rebelled and disappeared. Only to return years later and destroyed all 12 colonies with the help of human looking variants and an unwitting fifth columnist. END of SPOILER.)

Anyway alongside the local airing of the reinvented "Battlestar Galactica" on the other cable channel they were airing Ursula Le Guin's Legend of Earthsea. Now here I was stuck in the middle will I watch Battlestar Galactica or Earthsea. I choose Battlestar Galactica because I wanted to see how they re-did the story and see the cylons.

All in all its a darker Galactica. I like the cylons new ships.

At least Battlestar Galactica did not compete with Farscape's The Peacekeeper Wars. It would really have been difficult ... I would have picked Farscape