There are only 12 Cylon models

Okay, kids, time to take on a new fandom. Today, I am here to pimp to you the new Battlestar Galactica, which will be starting its second season July 15, making now a good time to watch the mini-series and the 13 episodes of the first season. The Sci-Fi channel is enabling this by showing repeats and by running a Galactithon of the first season on July 6. In addition, I understand that some people have found the entire season on BitTorrent, but I can't account for such scoundrels. NBC is also running some of the repeats to try to entice you. See? Everybody wants you to watch.

Anyway, the show is a recreation of the great original series - which I was hopelessly addicted to as a wee fangirl - just really really better. The effects of course are better, but the stories have improved as well. Discerning viewers will love Mary McDonnell as President Laura Roslin, and Katee Sackhoff as Starbuck - yes Starbuck is a woman now, a cool, butch woman who kicks ass. The Cylons now also come in human-looking form, and thus can be hidden among the regular survivors and have disturbing amounts of sex with them. This adds a nice intrigue element (the hiding, that is), since you don't know who's a Cylon and who's really human, though as the show goes along, the reveal of so-and-so as a Cylon may be used as a plot crutch and not make sense with past continuity, but we'll give them the benefit of the doubt right now.

Some links for you: Sci-Fi's site includes a production blog, plus the usual pictures and trailers and some deleted scenes. The Season 2 promo pictures can be found here, and this hilarious recap of them echoes my feelings on their cheesiness. Here and here are two interviews with the producers on what you can expect this season (not too spoilery, in my opinion), and one with Jamie Bamber(Who I am adjusting slowly to seeing as Apollo and not Archie Kennedy from Hornblower. I hear that the Hornblower fangirls call him the Crumpet, and that now he is the SpaceCrumpet which I think is just cute as can be, even though I find his fake American accent to be kinda, well, fake.).