The Best TV Show That You're Not Watching

When you hear the title, you will cringe. Just the very name of it will send you running for the hills for fear that you will have been embraced into geekdom. The show in question, is Battlestar Galactica. As one reporter has stated, "The best show with the worst title." Now I realise that the very name evokes memories of Lorne Greene and Richard Hatch flying around in stock footage trying to evade the deadly race of "Cylons." However, the new series is definitely not your old school Galactica.

The basic premise of the show is about the same. The Twelve Colonies of man created a race of "robots" called the Cylons. The Cylons basically did all the shit that their human master/creators did not feel like doing. The Cylons, not liking this so much declared war and all Hell broke loose. After a period of 40 years, the Cylons just kinda, went away and sort of a cold war existed. The Cylons then came back, some in robot form and some part of a series of 12 human looking and acting models and all but annihilated the race of man in a series of "Pearl Harbor" style attacks. Now, the human race (whittled down to some 50, 000 survivors) is on the run in a handful of ships protected by the last remaining "battleship" of the fleet, the Battlestar Galactica. The Galactica is searching for a lost 13th tribe that is mentioned in their holy scriptures that left the original Twelve Colonies for a mythical planet called, Earth.

Ok, I know what you're thinking, still sounds pretty hokey. I am seriously not a big fan of science fiction. I'm all about Star Wars, yes, but you won't find me kicking back and watching the Dr. Who marathon on SPACE (Sci-Fi in the States). I usually am pretty skeptical about sci-fi shows, so this is coming from a relative non-believer. But Battlestar Galactica is amazing. Very well acted, high production values and the plot lines are trippy and deal with modern parallels such as the conflict in Iraq and the nature of how to protect your people. It's dark and paranoid and one of those rare shows that you actually have to put a little effort of thought toward when you watch it.

Give it a chance and let me know what you think. Check out the show's website at http://www.spacecast.com/bsg/ in Canada and http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/ in the U.S.
It airs Sundays in both countries at 10:00 p.m.

Slainte