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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!

I just don't have any idea what the hell is going on on that Island anymore. My fav character is killed off (I will refrain from telling you who just in case) and the writers delve deeper into territory that I am not interested in. WTF?

Please give me something to puzzle over because all the stories that had me hooked have been seripticiously dropped and the characters that piqued my interest keep getting knocked off! I want to return to the days of a single set of survivors that are facing a supernatural enemy that dwells in and on the island.

I seem to remember that Kate is kind of a bad-ass. When did her gnads get snipped? She's been such a whiny little beeotch this season. And speaking of beeotches, Jack is pissing me off. He seems to have finally grown a pair, but it might be too little too late for my taste. Have our heroes forgotten that the others killed off many of their own ranks? Did they forget that there are children kidnapped somewhere in that compound?

It's been 40 years today that [Star Trek](http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/index.html) took to the airwaves and changed the world.

I wasn't around when it began, but I have been a fan since I was no more than 4 years old. It spawned telelvision and film franchises galore (some better than others) and changed *and* inspired the way we look at practical science.

[Cheers!](http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/TV/09/06/star.trek.40/index.html)

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/)

I'm asian-american with a garnish of Native. Born and raised in this here USA. Was briefly "white" during childhood in the below-the-MD-Line south when the only choices were "white" or "colored". Grew up in a pretty lily white community where I was basically treated like a Martian, especially by the church ladies. Occasionally refused service in stores, taunted by blonde children, etc. AND YET - no matter how hard I try I can't make myself get excercised about the new gimmick for Survivor. I mean really, like the commercials say, they've previously divided people by gender and age. What's the big deal? 1) It's a TV show people and 2) the part I find kind of hilarious - the loudest noises are coming from organizations with names like "the Latino coalition", "Black Media watch" - not the exact names because I forget but y'all get the idea. And John Liu - Chinese-American congressman from Chinatown. In other words, these are people who have self-identified with their ethnic backround.

I dont know if anyone got a chance to watch Spike Lee's documentary on Hurrican Katrina which aired last night on HBO. Last night was part 1 and 2 of a 4 part documentary. Part 3 and 4 will be on HBO tonight at 9pm EST.

I watched it last night and found myself disgusted even more today than I was 12 months ago. To call what happened there a disgace doesnt even come close to summing it up. Absolutely shocking television. Hats off to Spike Lee for a very engaging documentary that lets the film footage and interviews with New Orleans residents speak for itself. Re-capping what happened there and also learning some additional facts about the tragedy left me convinced that our government doesnt give a flying fuck about our safety.

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?

Alright, I admit it, I was wrong -- and it is high time for me to come clean with my fellow code0range users:

I am addicted to [Lost](http://abc.go.com/primetime/lost/).

And when I say addicted, I mean on the cusp of maddness...I am sad to say that I watched eight episodes in one sitting a few nights back.

Some of you might remember [what I said](/node/1048#comment-1658) back in the [Great Lost Flame War](/node/1048) of ought-five:

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.