Battlestar Galactica - The Complete Epic Series

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Summary: Booooorrrrring
Review: I'll probably get beat up for this but Battlestar Galactica was a waste of television airtime and it's even a bigger waste of a perfectly good dvd disc. The performances are lackluster probably because everyone was just there to make a buck. The stories were silly and the dialogue is even sillier. Even Mel Blank (the voice of the robot) couldn't help this sorry piece of trash. Don't waste your money here. You're better off watching Lost in Space or Star Trek.

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Summary: an answer to your excellent question...
Review: A great question about the deleted scenes was asked by lexta. I'm no Battlestar Galactica expert (I'm just a guy who enjoys the show and this set) but I do know that Lost Planet of the Gods was filmed to be a tele-film first but aired as a two part episode instead. The two part episode version is a few scenes shorter than the tele-movie version (I guess because credits had to be added to make it two episodes) and so the slightly shorter two part version was how the episode was first broadcast and seen by many fans. Many fans wanted the episodes just the way they were first shown and that's what the DVD set provides. Those scenes that were cut from Lost Planet when it became the two part episode first shown on network TV are now on the DVD as deleted scenes. The tele-movie version of Lost Planet was shown on TV later and it included those scenes so that's why some fans remember them. This set was designed to keep things as close to the way they were first presented and how many fans first saw them. So they didn't cut scenes for this set and this is NOT like Lucas' reworking of Star Wars. This version is the Lost Planet of the Gods that was first watched by fans plus the cut scenes and other scenes and bloopers and more. I think that's very cool becuase the set stays true to what was first aired, and loved by many fans, and gives us the extra scenes too. They tried to please all the fans and stay true to the episodes as first shown. I appreciate that.
Hope this helps clear things up. I have many DVDs and many are not this well done. This is amazing! I'm only a casual Battlestar fan but I admit it's damned impressive. I believe it's a five star DVD set.

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Summary: Enjoyable, but.. deleted scenes?
Review: I'm a BG fan since it first broadcast and I'm enjoying the DVDs which I received as a gift. But I'm wondering... I thought the "Deleted scenes" would be outtakes and things that were never seen on TV. I don't normally watch such things on DVDs. But I decided to watch the "Deleted scenes" from "War of the Gods" and there seemed to be quite a few "deleted scenes" that I remembered. That is to say, it seems to me that some of the "Deleted scenes" were in the original broadcast but were removed from the DVD version of the episode and relegated to the "Deleted scenes" section.

Case in point: In War of the Gods where the Council of 12 is ready to elect Iblis as president of the council and Adama asks for more time, I distinctly remember the conversation about not wanting to offend Iblis by taking too long and also when one of the council members responds, "I for one find Adam's words true and reasonable." That was in the deleted scenes and I remember it from the original TV version but for some reason it wasn't in the DVD version of the episode. And in the original TV version I remember them finding the lost pilots on the surface of the planet without fuel at the end of the program--and that fact is seen in the "Deleted scenes"--but is nowhere to be seen if you just watch the "War of The Gods" episodes on the DVD.

Am I smoking something, or did they actually delete scenes from the original TV programs before they put them on the DVDs and relegate them to the "deleted scenes?" If so, I'm disappointed. I wanted to see the episodes just as I saw them in 1978 and if they deleted scenes from the original episodes when transferring them to DVD then this seems to be in line with George Lucas mangling the original versions of Star Wars after the fact and it should be mentioned.

I don't know which is worse: George Lucas adding stuff to the original Star Wars that wasn't there before or someone *removing* scenes from original Battlestar episodes...