Comment Battlestar Galactica is Iliad II, not really SciFi (Score 1) 465
The most important point is readily made in the article: BSG was barely science fiction. You may retell 90% of the plot of BSG without any sci-fi involved. As a mind exercise, try looking at the series, and recast it in ancient Greece. A bunch of Trojans are escaping by sea after Troy destruction. A legend is guiding them to a new land. During the voyage, they are often attacked by a group of Achaeans scouts. Gods intervene (to your taste). BSG is about the clash of two civilizations, and the fate of great men (and women) at the hands of destiny and the Gods. Take away the (very few) tecnological sci-fi, and you are left with Iliad II.