I don't write a lot about neoBSG here, but I'm hooked on the show for sure.

Jeezus. RDM can always make me weep like a baby. He plays my fiddle strings like no other television writer can.

Maelstrom? This episode right here? This is why neoBSG will go down as one of the best damn U.S. televised SciFi shows EVaR. Between the writing and that dream cast? Never again will you see something like this bless our screens when neoBSG passes from the airwaves.

Now the fact that I'm saying that about BSG in any form is enough to make me slap my head and call me an idiot.

And let me stress: much as I love the cheesy 70s version for its cheezy-ness, it was not art. It would never be confused with art. Original BSG and art were not even in the same galaxy, let alone the same room. And I wrote fanfic for the original series. No shit.

Maelstrom was just...it was just...it was transcendent.

( Maelstrom: Beware speculation beyond Sunday's ep )


Now, I won't be discussing spoilers here. Just will point you to the spoiler board where I read something very interesting about the final four episodes and state my immediate thought and reaction. That thought and reaction will be omigawdSPOILER!

You have been warned.


( Remember That I Be a Spoiler 'Ho — YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! )




I'll be over here shivering with anticipation. Eight months until the series picks up again? Eight months after the series finale?

My brain's gonna 'splode. That's all I'm saying.

As for RDM...man, he really wants to be the anti-Trek doesn't he? Listening to his and Eick's commentaries on S1 neoBSG is incredibly enlightening about the process they go through in putting the show together.

The commentaries are also refreshingly honest.

The most interesting comments are actually about the stylized ways that SciFi series are usually shot for television, and, I think, the comments are dead on for the most part. I also like RDM getting into how some of the choices made for BSG were made specifically because he didn't want to get stuck writing technobabble for BSG, ever.

Really, if you own the S1 DVD sets, the commentaries are well-worth listening to.