Now that I have TiVo, aside from a nearly endless supply of Law & Order reruns, I’ve been really getting into some new (to me) television shows. I have just about wrapped up season one of Lost and although I was skeptical at first, due to the somewhat ridiculous dialog at times, as the season has progressed, I’ve found myself completely hooked. I’m a big fan of Hurley.

Another show I really dig is the new incarnation of Battlestar Galactica on the SciFi Network. I vaguely recall the original show from the seventies—I was bit young to retain much of it. However, no experience with the original series is really necessary. I’m about five episodes into the second season and while at times the show gets a bit absurd with characters contradicting their motives, attitudes and personalities with no real reasoning other than what seems to be a scriptwriter being sloppy and schlocky, the show’s good. It’s got violence, good CGI, robots with machine guns and Edward James Olmos. It’s hard to err with that combination.

One thing that gets me about Battlestar Galactica is the stupidity of the villain. The Cylons are the cyborg baddies that are out to destroy their human creators. These big, bad-ass Cylon robots run around with their machine guns kicking ass and all humanity is on the run because these dudes are super fucking smart, evil and devious as hell. However, often the show has humans hiding from the Cylons. Two soldiers seeking shelter in a burned out building as a Cylon patrol goes by. The Cylons are actively searching for the humans, who are only a few feet away and yet never find them. What I don’t understand is is these cyborgs are supposed to be so smart, where’s the fucking infrared? These hi-tech cyborgs with their Kitt-like scanners can’t see for shit. That just makes no sense to me. Every science fiction show requires a certain amount of suspension of belief, but this show really takes it out there in ways not too well thought. Still, I really like it.