I do not consider myself a sci-fi geek, but I do like the genre. In the past I have found myself hopelessly committed to Babylon 5, The X-Files, Star Wars, Firefly and Star Trek: The Next Generation. Good sci-fi is hard to find. Finding a program that is good and that picks up enough of an audience that networks will continue to carry it is even harder. How many times have I started watching a program only to find it is canceled part way through the second season? Arg!
I would never have thought that I would be saying that I found a series better than Babylon Five, but the new Battlestar Galactica is the best sci fi ever! The series resumes for its fourth and final season in a few weeks.
A truce between the Twelve Colonies and the Cylons lasted for 40 tense and silent years. Then, on the 40th anniversary, a stunning blonde — a Cylon in human form — met the human envoy… moments before the Cylons vaporized the station and launched a genocidal attack on the Twelve Colonies. The new fanatical race of genocidal robots look like humans which adds a great deal to the series because we never know for sure who is who.
SCIFI is running a make your own Cylon contest with some cool prizes in advance of the new season. Make a Cylon: Use whatever you like: blinking lights for eyes, metal armor as a costume. The only caveat is that it has to be something physical (no Photoshop/art entries). Your Cylon can be of the humanoid or robotic variety, real or abstract, or anything else you can think of.
BSG is THE best on TV these days - with The Tudors closely following. Other than that, mostly drivel!
ReplyDeleteI was away from Sci Fi for a LONG time (way back in our roomie days) until I came across BSG. This show truly uses the ScFi genre to tell a story that is so much more than just "science fiction"!
Tony