2012 · sci-fi · tv-movie · action
Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome
Directed by Jonas Pate1h 31m2012
The first Cylon war has been raging for 10 years and a young Ensign William Adama joins the fleet. Disappointed not to be assigned to a fighter but to a freighter, his co-pilot also isn't too keen on having a rookie flying his aircraft as he has only a short time before he again becomes a civilian. Their cargo is a civilian scientist, but they no sooner leave than she has new orders for them and a new destination. Although she’s less than forthcoming about the details, Adama is keen—particularly as it involves going into Cylon controlled space. However, nothing is as it seems.
Our read: Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome (2012) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive sci-fi · tv-movie · action entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, measured sci-fi / tv-movie, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
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