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Last night's season finale for [Battlestar Galactica](http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/) was an aptly breathtaking finish to the best season yet. Promethea and I were shocked into rapt attention during the heavy assault of information flowing into our eyes and ears. It seems as if every second an answer to a longstanding question was revealed, and with it, at least twice as many new mysteries would form to replace the old. I haven't seen episodic television like this...ever. The drama took on a whole new dimension last night, one that promises to culminate in the fourth and final season in 2008.

**Spoiler Alert!**
For those who are uninitiated or behind the curve, I would suggest not reading this thread for fear of spoiling the story!

In order to whet our (*Battlestar fans*) appetite, **SciFi** is serving up 12 webisodes about the human resistance on New Caprica. They are posting new segments every Tuesday and Thursday until season 3 begins the first Friday of October.

[Battlestar Galactica: The Resistance](http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/)

In what I hope will turn out to be good news to me and other fans of [Battlestar Galactica](http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/) -- [SciFi channel](http://www.scifi.com/) has announced [Caprica, a prequel series](http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=2&id=35773) based on the continuity of the new BSG.

>Caprica would take place more than half a century before the events that play out in Battlestar Galactica. The people of the Twelve Colonies are at peace and living in a society not unlike our own, but where high-technology has changed the lives of virtually everyone for the better.

I said it a few months ago...[Battlestar Galactica is the best series on TV](node/1516). It seems I am in good company, as Time Magazine's Television Critic James Poniewozik has put Battlestar Galactica at the top of his list of the Best TV Shows from 2005:

>Most of you probably think this entry has got to be a joke. The rest of you have actually watched the show. Adapted from a cheesy '70s Star Wars clone of the same name, Galactica (returning in January) is a ripping sci-fi allegory of the war on terror, complete with religious fundamentalists (here, genocidal robots called Cylons), sleeper cells, civil-liberties crackdowns and even a prisoner-torture scandal. The basic-cable budget sometimes shows in the production, but the writing and performances are first-class, especially Edward James Olmos as the noble but authoritarian commander in charge of saving the last remnants of humanity. Laugh if you want, but this story of enemies within is dead serious, and seriously good.

My new addiction, Lost, was #2 on his list last year. What is your favorite show of 2005?

Watching the World Series preshow. [Edward James Olmos](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001579/) is speaking about great Latino baseball players. Nice line-up of players, but what I really want to write about is how Olmos has made me a fan of his acting. His recent acting, not that Miami Vice stuff...

Olmos plays Commander William Adama on Sci-Fi channel's new [Battlestar Galactica](http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/).

A few months back, I went to Vegas for a couple of months on business. On the plane there I read a [New York Times Magazine article on the new Battlestar Galactica reboot](http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/17/magazine/17GALACTICA.html?ex=127925280...). The story of how the new Galactica was reborn and how its creator developed a bold new vision for the series was fascinating. I hadn't seen it, having written it off as a bad remake – not worth a cursory glance. But the more I read, the more intrigued I was about the possibility that I might have missed the boat on this one. Maybe, just maybe -- there might be good Sci-Fi on television now.