This Friday, April 9th TV's best show about religious fanatical, genocidal humanoid robots returns to the air after a year long hiatus. and no im not referring to Desperate Housewives, but instead im talking about Battlestar F. Galactica. For the uninitiated Battlestar Galactica is a show set in a futuristic world where a sneak attack by robot forces leaves all but ~50,000 humans and one warship still functioning. On the surface this sounds like a standard enough plot for any number of rather shitty Sci-Fi Channel originals. But the thing about Battlestar is, while the show is outwardly about a war between humans and robots in space it is more concerned with questions of faith, gender roles, morality, religious fanaticism, genocide, government, existentialism and the nature of humanity itself. all of that plus lasers, dogfights, giant spaceships, robot/human/robot 3 ways and torture. if they added in cyborgraptors it might just be the best television show ever. as it stands its an impressively adult and serious take on sci-fi which is something we don't usually see paraded around openly in mainstream pop culture.
if this sounds liek somehting you could dig on, then id say with the utmost of urging to check out the Battlestar Galactica miniseries available at Netflix or at Blockbuster or wherever you rent your DVDs from, just dont watch the new episode on SciFi Channel on friday as it'll spoil 3 seasons worth of developments and prolly wont make much sense.
