Battlestar Galactica Ultimate Collection [2004] [Region Free]

Cracking boxset- it really is the "ultimate if you are a fan of the re-imagined BSG series. As mentioned in previous reviews, this is the only placed to get the Prequel series "Caprica" on a UK release (otherwise it's the French Standalone release). The boxset is created to look like the logbooks featured on the Battlestar Galactica. It's well made and has plenty of pictures along side the slots for Blu-ray discs of series 1-4, the mini films "Razor", "The Plan" and Blood & Chrome and Caprica series 1 &2. Also included is a nice glossy book. Probably a more "polished and complete" offering compared to the standard Blu-ray boxset. Highly recommended.

Firstly let's start by saying battlestar galatica is quite possible one of the finest t.v shows ever made and now it has been given a boxset finally worthy of such a great show..This is truly complete, the log book design is perfect and the content is excellent. it is loaded with extras and also includes blood and chrome as well as the complete caprica prequel all t.v movies I.e razor etc.If you was in 2 minds about getting this or upgrading your old box set dont hesitate you won't be sorry..

The quality of the series speaks for itself. At this new lower price, this blu-ray box set does provide excellent value for money, coming as it does with the extra BG short films plus the webisodes. The whole package is very well put together and the quality of the conversion is excellent

Great and sentimental collection reflecting the best tv show of the decade

About the seller: the item was described as "used - in good condition" and it homestly looks like it's new, which is perfect.The show on itself is fantastic and one of my favourites.About the boxset... it's absolutely gorgeous. Other buyers make a better description of the boxset contents so I won't do the same but I will say it is way luxurious than I expected. Excelent buy.

Amazing saga given in very nice boxing and perfect quality of BD.BTW: I've managed to buy it month ago for 60% of current price at amazon.co.uk - hell no idea, how amazon's pricing strategy works...

Superb box set all complete saga

The most emotionally draining and emotionally invigorating piece of television (and film) I've ever watched and likely will.Those are fighting words in that headline, but it has been 7 years since I binge watched this over the Winter 2008-Summer 2009 and to this day I still think about this peerless series or some aspect of it, a quote, an image, on an almost nearly daily basis. Yes I've watched The Wire, Sopranos, Breaking Bad and many others, and while excellent, in my opinion they were all living in the shadow of this.Caprica included in this set is very good, but not amazing, Blood and Chrome (a failed tv pilot for an intended prequel series) lacks the soul and lightning in the bottle that made so BSG so special. The Razor prequel included in this set serves as much more true version of the events the first cylon war. Its brief, but less is more in this case.It's probably the most powerful story I've ever watched and I include film in that and I've (supposedly so they say) good taste. It starts off like a rocket and morphs quickly from a rather thrilling, gritty science fiction saga to an honest to god life changing (if you let it) study on what it means to be alive and human nature and how best to respond to the trials life throws at us and how we all are striving to get/stake out a small measure of peace. The show starts white knuckle and then gets wider/deeper than you could think of and soon realise this is one of the greats and how little known it really is. You'll feel like you're found hidden pirate's treasure and want to share it with someone else.The less you know the better. I began watching in late 2008 because I was standing in a store with a friend in 1st year of college and he said try this. I had never seen a trailer, a review, how many episodes, NOTHING. To say I was pleasantly surprised is an understatement that is equal to saying what they dropped on Hiroshima was a grenade. It's now my favorite show of all time and I'm not really a science fiction fan. To put it mildly:It had everything I liked from various other great fiction mixed together but in perfect concoction. I never had a felt a series so made for me, but here it was: Politics, scenic planets, resource depletion, mental exhaustion and desperation, navy style military, but transplanted to a beliveable future society, characters of great warmth and duty but also questioning and self aware enough to learn from their mistakes and others. I loved how old and young characters interacted with each other across age gaps. The feel of living in a tin after losing everyone you know can being hunted across the universe after a genocide. Strong and weak male characters that are allowed to be men and strong and weak women characters that are not trying to be women, just humans keeping is from the brink all set in an atmosphere of cabin fever and paranoia.Its one of the truly great stories, ordinary people being forced to cope with a situation inflicted upon them as they get put through the most harrowing odyssey to find some small contentment (surrogate families become a subtle underlying theme of the series). The characters are so well drawn and so flawlessly and naturally acted that even by the end of the first season, you will feel like you understand, empathise them all even when not fully agreeing with their decisions, No show will make you feel more conflicted than BSG or put you in another shoes, and despite all this it never becomes a story of anti heroes, they really are trying to figure a way out of the mire and be decent people. They will remind me you of people know and inspire you to be better, I know that sounds cringey but this series was one of the reasons behind my choice of career I'm currently pursuing and changed my beliefs in some aspects of democracy and even religion. This is the kind of TV that makes you wish you had the chance to have some of the characters a part of your own life. It does all this while by being incredibly compelling, adventurous, immersive and having one of the finest thrilling and beautiful soundtracks you will ever hear in all of cinema/TV. It is godlike and I find myself listening to it whether its speeding dangerously down a motorway, typing out an Excel sheet or loading the dishwasher.It is a series both under seen and under heard, both intelligent, probing and life affirming. What does it mean to be human, to be alive, what do we fight for, you'll have to answer that for yourself, but this series will give you signposts and unearth some parts of yourself we rarely get in touch with. It is a show not of anti heroes, but of real people being tested far beyond what life had intended for them, revealing itself to have huge dramatic heart to match its vast brains. People and what's left of civilisation holding on to each other and their sanity, living in close proximity, in a facade of democracy, at the end of everything. What is there to live for?It has been seven years since it ended and to this day I never seen characters (dozens of secondary and primary) and overarching and storyline feel so real, so true and despite the darkness, inspirational. It combines the intimate,cosy and the epic and does so with equal skill. J.R.R Tolkien would be proud. It is a treatise on the human experience that feels and looks like a 60 hour, 6 year cinematic film series. It is a universal fable which compels us to reflect on our own world, our own lives, our own choices, “since all of this has happened before, and will happen again”.Nothing is left untouched, and you'll feel that journey, oh lord you'll feel it. You'll live it.So enough of the hyperbole, I just felt that a lot of these reviews undersell it, and I do think that years from now it will be regarded in the same way Blade Runner, Lawrence of Arabia or Alien is now, some of the greatest productions of all time and with the longest legs it will age fantastically for it has a timeless setting.Well done Ron Moore, David Eick and company, you magnificent supersonic bastards.