One of the things I like about my cable service is the availability of on-demand movies. These are movies that you can watch whenever you want instead of trying to catch them when they come on the time slots of the movie channels. I can program Tivo to record movies but sometimes I just want to watch something "right now".
Well, I was wandering through the movie choices and found another section of on-demand TV shows - one of them being Battlestar Galactica. I had heard/read that this remake of the old TV series was very good and had wanted to see it but I had never made the effort. One of the "episodes" was titled "The Story So Far" which collapsed the first two seasons into a catch-up episode to let you know what had happened. About 15 minutes into it I was hooked. The basic story is the same as the original: Human designed robots - the Cylons - revolt against their creators and annihilate virtually everyone except for a "rag-tag fleet" of space ships protected by the battlestar Galactica. These guys represent the last vestiges of human kind and they set off on a search for the mythical 13th human colony called Earth with the Cylons in hot pursuit. The big difference between this version and the original is the writing, casting, directing, acting and sub-stories within the main story. Other than that, they're practically identical...
I'm hooked enough that I wanted to go back and see the first two seasons but I didn't really want to buy DVDs of shows that I'd probably only watch once. So, I logged onto the county library system web site, found that they had them to borrow, and placed an order to get them delivered to my local library. How cool is that?
Anyway, I highly recommend taking a look this series. Very interesting.
