[The News Bot]

My least favourite part of reviewing is when I have to review something that’s already been reviewed by a fellow reviewer, especially when I’m not going to give it the glowing recommendation that they have. That’s not to say this is a bad season, as this is quite entertaining, but it does have faults and it does raise a few concerns that it went out to be all guns blazing in its execution but could soon run out of steam, which would be a shame. Some of the characters need more fleshing out, as they are a little two dimensional whereas some are superb (Baltar and Boomer being the obvious two) and I think that this would help alleviate some of my criticisms, even if they brought the pace down slightly. Sometimes the hunt is better than the prize and that is what I feel drags this down, is that the hunt isn’t quite long enough or balanced and the rewards are almost too quickly and easily dispersed – witness 24 which is reasonably fast paced, but takes a while (even 3 series) before we get certain payoffs. I look forward to seeing Season 2, it is early days however, but it isn’t as amazing or earth-shattering as some would have you believe.
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