Kevin's Watch

I can't BELIEVE there isn't a thread about this yet! I have never been so excited about a tv series before (with the exception of the original Galactica - I still remember riding my bike home about ten miles from a softball game my dad was playing in so I wouldn't miss the premier).

Ali - have you had a chance to watch the DVDs yet? No hurry - I have a second copy of Season 1, and Season 2 came out just after I lent you my taped copies.

I do admit a strange attraction with the "long space journey" theme. I was hooked on Starblazers as a kid - and I even favored Star Trek Voyager to any of the others by that name.

So it worried me this weekend when I saw the cartoon inserted below. Is it STRANGE to like this show so much? I thought they really did a good job of "keeping it real" despite the sci-fi theme. The politics aren't less believable than West Wing, the way the shipboard stuff is handled is almost dead-on US Navy (I was in for 6 years myself - didn't spend as much time shipboard as most sailors, but enough to know BG is closer to "real" than JAG or ... *shudder* ... Supercarrier). With the exception of the standard sci-fi avoidance of the "why is everyone able to stand upright in space" question, they seem to want to get the physics of things correct. And the characters have so much depth that you get sucked into each one. Wow! You think you knew Starbuck, but this past one (Episode 215 - Scar ... and I wonder whether "Scar" refers to the cylon or to Starbuck) really took it a step further.

Spoiler

Too bad I think Anders is really a cylon - I'm suspect of anyone pushing the love angle in that show.

Anyway, just thought I'd get this out there. Anyone want to venture a guess as to the identities of the other cylon models?

Spoiler

I think the Baltar we first met on Caprica was human, but the one that escaped to the Galactica is a cylon.

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I'll wait to respond to your post here incase you want to move it over.

I like the show, too. I felt the only episode that has fallen a little flat this season was the one which resolved the President's terminal illness. A little too "Dr. McCoy finds the last second cure" for my tastes. Don't get me wrong, I'm a big Trek fan, too, but the pseudo-science chemisty genius saves the day plot has been done to death . . . and BG should have found a way to avoid it.

Otherwise, the show continues to surprise and entertain me, and we're getting more and more in-depth characterizations for Starbuck and Apollo.

I wouldn't put it on Firefly's level, but right now, it's certainly the best science fiction episodic television out there.

That blond woman in the red dress is a real beauty!