Extended Episodes RAZOR rant
I've been showing my 11 year old daughter BSG over the last couple of months in our movie theater basement via a Roku Ultra and the Paramount+ app. It was an OK experience up until season 3, and we started watching episodes where there were gigantic noticeable (for me) gaps in missing parts.
I eventually realized that when I originally watched the show I had watched Season 1-3 +Razor on DVD and naturally just watched the extended versions. I watched Season 4 as it aired. I tried to fill my daughter in on some key missing scenes from Season 3 but it wasn't a big deal so we kept pressing forward.
Today the worst offense happened. First of all, Razor is split into a Part 1 and Part 2. On P+ it comes across as 2 separate episodes. It's jarring and not a great experience. Way different from mine of having a dedicated DVD of the Battlestar Galactica: Razor Movie.
And now we top that with the ultimate disrespect of Razor. The P+ "episodes" or whatever COMPLETELY DELETED the Husker v Cylon midair falling through the sky battle and the preceding viper action. It also cuts out him trying to open the jammed door to save human experiments from the hybrid abominations. Its now just a quick clip of Husker traipsing about the hybrid experimental base and then the war is over.
OH and it also completely cuts out why anyone cares about the blade and what a Razor actually is. There's no scene of Helena raising the blade to the Cylon attempting to murder her as a child when her home world was invaded.
If you're trying to pass down the networked computer virus of BSG to your children, don't watch this version of Razor with them. I'm going to purchase a DVD player and show my daughter my old discs and apologize for assuming P+ wasn't horseshit.