Okay, if I wasn't hooked on the new SciFi series Battlestar Galactica before, I sure am after watching the season finale last night. There were four intensely interesting story threads going on, and by the end of the episode, virtually every character was in a major-league situation, including being shot, arrested, stranded on a planet, involved in major developments with an alien race - you name it.
While I taped all the episodes (thank you TiVo) I am anxiously awaiting the season 1 DVDs. This year's episodes are ones to savor. Again, the characters are great - that's why I like this remake. But the writing is magnificent. I'm something of a student of the original series, and while it'll always be a sentimental favorite, the writing was never better than passable, and was frequently just plain awful - episode after episode were just recycled western stories set on the Universal back lot. I didn't really understand what the writers of this story meant when they talked about the possibilities the series presented, but I do now. They are handling the original series' vaguely religious story lines about the birth of humanity on a planet called Kobol with so much more sophistication. Not just Eqyptian flight helmets & pyramids here.
Next season starts in July with 20 new episodes. I can't wait.