Hang on a minute

Beofre Christmas, Sky One started showing the new series of Battlestar Galactica. Now I was immediately cynical about this new show, mainly because I liked the late seventies series so much (well the first series of it anyway. When they actually found Earth, and after Richard Hatch and Dirk Benedict (you know, Face from the A-Team) pissed off it all got a bit silly and well, erm, shit). So I was very wary.

I was made even more wary by the fact that it was made clear that some of the new Cylons could be present in human form (something I thought, incorrectly I might add, had more to do with CG budget limitations than plot - the new Cylon Centurions are CG by the way, and are fairly fucking cool - if they could just say "By your command" just once though, they'd be fucking awesome!!).

So thinking this would be the equivalent of "The Phantom Menace" versus "A New Hope" I sat down to watch the series with a cynical eye, and little or no optimism of me enjoying this new series.

Oh how wrong I was.

And admittedly it has taken me a while to admit that I was wrong, I'll try and tell you that it's because I've been too busy to properly update this blog as it became apparent that this new series actually did kick ass, but the truth is that I'm a stubborn, pig-headed old fool!

The human-looking cylons have brought about a brooding paranoia, since the news spread about this new form of cylon, every human survivor of the cylon massacre has been eyeing each other with suspicion: "Are you human, or are you a cylon spy?".
This has been added to by the fact that some of the cylon agents have been programmed to not even know that they are cylons, so some not even just suspect others but begin to question their own thoughts and motives - clever stuff.
Then we have the power struggle between the democracy that's left after the twelve colonies have been blown to shit, and the military lead by Commander Adama on the last remaining Battlestar.
Then there's real problems facing the fleet fleeing a strong military force: like dwindling water supplies, dwindling fuel supplies (with fuel refineries being mercilessly defended by wave after wave of Cylon ships) and the lack of skilled fighter pilots to defend the last survivors of the human race.
It's all good!
Throw into the mix a good load of Space-Opera battle action and you really are onto a taut drama which just happens to be set in space.

So, anyway, on Monday we had the series finalé, and a major fucking twist and cliff-hanger.

"Fuck!" thought I. "When is the new series gonna be screened."

So off onto the source of all pornography and knowledge: The Internet, and specifically what looked like the most likely Battlestar Galactica site, the SciFi.Com Battlestar Microsite. Imagine my surprise, therefore when I found out that they'd only just seen Epsiode 3 of the first series.

Huh?
We've just seen the end of the series?

What

The

Fuck?

It took a visit to the Sky One Battlestar site to confirm that I had not actually dreamt watching this entire series (warning this episode guide contains MAJOR spoilers if you ever intend to watch this series. And seeing as Sky could well flog it to one of the terrestrial channels in the future, or it might just be repeated on Sky One Mix, there's still a chance for you to see it).

So we got an American series before the States?
Wow!

Of course this means I'll probably have to wait for fucking ever to see if (MAJOR FUCKING SPOILER DELETED BY SERVER), I mean who could have seen that coming? How can they take it forward from there?

Anyway I was wrong and if you get a chance to see this then do it! You'll not be disappointed.