Battlestar Galactica @ MindSay

I've had to wait for almost a year to get my fix back on.  Battlestar Galactica premieres its fourth, final season tonight on SciFi Channel.  This show is, simply, one of the best shows ever made!  When the remake began with the miniseries in '03, I was one of the naysayers poo-poo-ing the show, since I was one of the original show's biggest kid fans.  I had the board game, a wallet, a T-shirt -- and the Battlestar Galactica Space Glow Putty (that I could sell on eBay for hundreds of dollars if I still had it, dammit).  How dare they try to reinvent a classic!  And horror of horrors, the character of Starbuck (Dirk Benedict), my childhood crush for two years, was recast as a chick!!

So I ignored the whole thing and went along for a couple of years blissfully unaware of what I was missing until the 2.5 season.  One day I was hanging out at my friend Lacey's and she insisted I watch an episode with her -- one that hearkened back to a classic episode about a second battlestar, Pegasus, emerging from deep space when everyone thought it was lost in the first attacks.  The head of the ship, originally played by Lloyd Bridges, was freakishly portrayed by Michelle Forbes.  I was hooked.  This wasn't just some frakkin' remake of the great, if somewhat cheesy, original.  This was a hugely intelligent, profound re-imagining of the basic premise that surpasses all the sci-fi shows before -- and really most shows.  It's not just about space fights and cool special effects, but about what we humans are and could become, about issues that we all face.  It's just that good.

Part of me is really sad that this is the final season -- broken into two sequences, I read online.  But I completely respect the creators' decision to paint their own ending and to go out on top.  To end the show on their terms, and give the fans their long-awaited payoff.  (Something that we LOST-watchers often worry about. And I will say, I enjoy BSG more than LOST because they don't frak with your head and create such complicated situations that one needs a doctorate in physics to understand what the hell is going on.)

I'm terribly disappointed in those who dole out the awards -- the Emmys, the Golden Globes, the SAGs, etc.  This show is better than anything else out there but the stigma on sci-fi shows runs deep, I guess.

So tonight it's me, the TV and some lovely treat that I will allow myself for such a special occasion.  Nobody better call or bother me.  I will be in my little bit of Heaven...

And just so you know... I AM the final Cylon. 

This week brings the return of two of science fiction television's best shows...BATTLESTAR GALACTICA and DOCTOR WHO.

April 4th sees BSG begin its fourth and final season. As a fan I am saddened to see the ending of the best political drama with religious undertones that just happens to be set in space and feature killer robots.
 But I am also extremely amped up to see what great television this show is going to produce this season and to see how many of my questions will be answered.
How is Starbuck alive? Is she the last Cylon? If not her than who? Will the colonists find Earth? Will Pres. Roslin be alive to see it?

Saturday is the return of the good Doctor for his fourth season (or series as the Brits call 'em) and he's got a new companion in Donna. Now I am a bit peeved that Martha Jones isn't riding in the Tardis this season but I am willing to gie Donna a chance as long as she isn't as shrieky as she was in the Runaway Bride special from a few Christmas's ago. Aside from a new companion this season is looking to be really cool with the return of not just one but three (four if you count Capt. Jack from TORCHWOOD) of the Doctor's former companions when Martha, Sarah Jane Smith and Rose Tyler all come back for the final arc of this season which should be a humdinger. There are even rumors that an entire episode will focus on just the past and present companions as they work together to save the Doctor.

This is the start of pure geek nirvana for me.

I feel like I've been neglecting to post and comment on others' posts. Sorry. I guess it's not obligatory, but I do care. With both girls around, my hands are full. Today Hannah is at the babysitters' until after her nap. I'm doing the laundry, tidying up, making appointments.

Was going to start calling about summer babysitters, but the course schedule for summer isn't available yet, so I don't know what hours I'm looking at. May make a few calls anyway.

I've been missing Battlestar Galactica lately. We got into it by borrowing a friend's pilot on DVD and then signed up to watch the rest on Netflix. Of course we blew threw them, at one episode a night (alright! sometimes two) after the girls went to bed, or while waiting for Clara to go to bed. Love the drama, and the characters... waiting for the season 3 dvd to come out. We don't have cable so there's no way to watch week by week. :( But I like watching an episode a night. We watched Troy over the last couple of days. Tried doing it the same way, and hour or so at a time. It was ok. Interesting, but I miss the characters I know, and it's hard to care very much about the characters in a movie because it's shortlived.

Lately, Hannah has been expressing that she wants things RIGHT NOW. I tried teaching her to say, "May I have toto puffs" (cocoa puffs) instead of "Toto Puffs! Right Now!." She had fun imitating me, but doesn't feel nearly as congenial as the polite way to ask would indicate. She is also expressing her desire to be rid of diapers, if not permanently then at least whenever I try to put one on her. I got her some underwear, and she is excited to wear them. She has a book, Big Sister, and in it the big sister wears underpants, sleeps in a regular bed, eats sandwiches and drinks from a cup. Often Hannah will quote something from the book in her daily activities. This morning I told her that the Care Bears Training Pants were Underpants. She ran to the other end of her room, looking for the book, found it and wanted me to find the page. She pointed out the big sister wearing underpants, then without a fight, stepped into her "underpants". Now, she's been wearing pull ups, and easy ons for months... but we never called them Underpants. They were the same as a diaper. But now, with the big sister book, underpants! Hoping that book comes in so handy when we switch to a big girl bed.

And Clara, in spite of feeling sick still, has slept 6-8 hours at night the last two nights. She gave Nana a run for her money Saturday night, not sleeping unless held upright. But here, with a treatment before bed, she sleeps like a rock. Not during the day, though. 15 minutes tops for most naps. I think she's outgrowing the sleep all the time phase. Maybe she just needs a morning nap and a late afternoon nap now...

I'm not sure how many of you outside of my normal circle of friends watch Battlestar Galactica, but I'd like to see if we could get a little discussion going on here in the comments.

Who is the final Cylon?  We've got confirmation of 4 of the final 5, but we're still missing a definitive fifth.  Any thoughts?  Post in the comments if you have any theories.  Also feel free to post in the comments if you care to talk about the series in general.

I knew it would happen if the series carried on long enough.  I've been slowly drifting towards watching an episode here and there, and then it happened.  I watched one.  Then I read about some other episodes, and then I saw another and then I got  the miniseries off Netflix....  Now I'm buying them by the season.

I'm old enough to have watched the original series when I was HS.  I guess I should have just started watching from the get-go.  But I had a problem with the whole Starbuck's a girl thing.  What was I thinking???