Battlestar Galactica: The Plan
October 27, 2009 in theaters
When the initial Cylon attack against the Twelve Colonies fails to achieve complete extermination of human life as planned, twin Number Ones (Cavils) embedded on Galactica and Caprica must improvise to destroy the human survivors.
QUOTE
"The Cylons have a plan."
DID YOU KNOW?
The Plan was produced after the series concluded to show the events of the first two seasons from the Cylons' perspective.
THE VERDICT
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A companion TV movie to the 2004 reimagined series that retells the events of the first two seasons from the Cylon perspective, turning familiar events into a darker exercise in motive, manipulation, and consequence. The recontextualization is genuinely interesting as a piece of series mythology, and Dean Stockwell's dual performance anchors the film's tonal range. It is not designed to stand on its own and does not pretend to: The Plan functions as a director's commentary in narrative form, most rewarding after completing the series. Essential for completionists, inaccessible without the prior series context.
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