She Blowed Up Real Good

I finally got to watch the final episode of this season's "Battlestar Galactica". Okay laugh, but next to "Lost" its the best show on TV. If you haven't seen it then put the Lorne Greene/Dirk Benedict '70s TV answer to "Star Wars" out of your mind. (Well, you can't really do that because Richard Hatch is in this one too.) Its always surprising and never goes where you'd expect. So the Cylons can look like humans and its been a big ping pong match for two seasons with the crew of the Galactica outrunning the machines, although they've been infiltrated by sleeper agents and psychotic fantasies of tall blonde sexy Cylons. Gaius Balthar, the mad scientist who actually had a hand in helping the Cylons almost wipe-out mankind, is elected president. He says, "Right-o, we're moving down to this barely hospitable planet." Then the Cylon he loves blows herself up with a nuclear device and he starts sleeping with many sexy nameless intergalactic broads. And then you get a "One Year Later" subtitle -- say what? Balthar is like totally nuts, the former president is teaching school, Starbuck (who in this one is a female) has long hair and a husband and seems to have had some sort of falling out with Apollo. And just to make sure you know that time has passed, Edward James Olmos (Adama) grows a moustache.

And then guess what? Yeah, you guessed it. The Cylons show up. Ta da.

So I'm guessing a lot of next season will be filling in that year that just sped by. I hate waiting.