I’m sure that I am preaching to the choir, but the SciFi Channel’s Friday night lineup is a solid three hours of pretty good storytelling. They were smart enough not to include the dreadful Andromeda and decided to showcase the network’s crown jewels. Thanks to Tivo, I started watching Stargate SG-1 last year and I feel as though I am pretty caught up since around a third of the SciFi Channel’s programming are SG-1 repeats. How this show has managed to remain somewhat fresh all of these years is a mystery that many other prgrams need to solve.

I’m slowly warming up to Stargate Atlantis. I see the previews for the shows and they never really seem to interest me. But I’ll watch it anyhow, and I am usually happy that I did.

But the show of shows is Battlestar Galactica. It is my favorite show on television. Better than 24 and much better than Alias (another one of my favorites). If you haven’t seen this series from the beginning, you’re really missing some quality writing . The acting can be over the top at times, but the way they portray a civilization’s last stand makes up for anything else wrong in the show.

My brother, also an elder gamer, complained loudly that Battlestar Galactica “sucked” because there were no cylons. Well, he meant the old fashioned cylons of yester-TV.

I like the complexity presented with the new cylon human copies. Especially the discussion that God was displeased with the human race, so He created the cylons. Will be interesting to see where this winds up later in the series.

So if you don’t like sitting in front of your TV contemplating such philosophical thoughts, then Battlestar Galactica probably isn’t going to float your boat.