I don't know why, but i had a very strong Mass Effect vibe when watching this, it didn't feel at all like BSG.
Anyone else had the same vibes?
Dr. Becca Kelly (Lili Bordán) looks like Miranda Lawson from Mass Effect 2, and then you have a large amount of lens flares, I can see why it feels like Mass Effect.
Agreed, OP.
I dont think lens flares, a visual flash literally if anything, and a girl who you claim looks like this http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qtFYDL3gktU/S484IPXoLeI/AAAAAAAADuE/oETx5gv7 fMo/s1600-h/Yvonne_Strahovski.jpg(who does NOT) make this feel like Mass Effect at all. I love Mass Effect and the BSG series, but i'd be quite embarrased to say Blood and Chrome was ANYTHING like ME.
It is of course much more like Starship Troopers and Pitch Black even. Aliens. Etc.
Mass Effect is more in the vein of Elysium and Star Trek, which pretty much anyone would agree is the opposite spectrum of science fiction.
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Mass Effect's Normandy CIC was inspired by Galactica's CIC, and ME is a patchwork of other science fiction influences -- the Citadel is directly based on Larry Niven's Ringworlds and the Orbital Stations in The Culture novels of Iain M. Banks, Tuchanka and the Thresher Maw are clearly based on Arrakis and the Shai Halud of Dune, the Reapers are essentially the Inhibitors from Alastair Reynold's Revelation Space, the Systems Alliance is very much like BSG's Colonial Fleet, EDI is a nod to HAL, Omega is inspired by Blade Runner and Nar Shadda, the Rachni are inspired by the bugs in Starship Troppers, etc, etc.
It's a great series, and the writers at BioWare clearly know and love science fiction.