Stuff I liked about the new Battlestar Galactica (or "I Married a Cylon"):
1) Starbuck is a chick?
2) Ah, THAT'S why the old Galactica had cheesy computers and analog readouts, cuz, see, the Cylons can control computers. Oooh, and they can control people's MINDS, too, which is why everyone had big hair, to keep out the mind-control rays.
3) Boomer is a chick?
4) At least Baltar is now the teensiest bit conflicted about, oh, betraying the entire human race.
5) Starbuck is a chick?
6) "The old model Viper was, of course, completely ripped off from 'Star Wars,' which was the only surviving piece of culture from the lost colony of Earth at the time of their design. In the last 20 years, however, we have discovered 'Deep Space Nine,' 'Babylon 5,' AND 'Farscape,' which is why the NEW Vipers look like Cardassian/Peacekeeper vessels and the Cylon fighters look like Centauri vessels."
7) Boomer is Korean?
8) Here's a thought going forward: don't use Windows XP to coordinate your fighter squadrons if network security is an important factor in not getting your ass handed to you.
9) The Cylons are a chick? The Cylons are a HOT chick!
10) Not since episode 54 of the original Star Trek ("The Omega Glory"...Yangs, Coms, the American Flag) has modern-day politics been so artfully (SUBTLETY: The Musical!) woven into tv sci-fi. "I don't want people accusing their neighbors of being Cylon because they don't brush their teeth in the morning." OH! SNAP! Take THAT Colonel Ashcroft!
11) What happened to all the brothers? Col. Tigh is an old white guy. Boomer is Korean...and a chick. 'Sup with that?
12) The president is dying of cancer. Finally, just plain cancer. Not "Margrab's Syndrome" or "Anti-Neutrino Poisoning" or some other exotic future-sounding thing. Just regular old cancer. Of course, in the Star Trekverse people get cancer several times a year (all that transporting), but, you know, they just take a Vick's lozenge and some herbal tea and it usually clears up after about three days.
13) Starbuck is chick?
14) As long as they don't remake Galactica: 1980 in 2 years, I'll be happy. Galactica: 1980: 2005?