Yay!  I actually LIKED it. 

Of course, it had NOTHING to do with the fact that I met Mr. Olmos in the early 80’s and found him to be a very gracious person.

Newp.  Aheh.

Hey, I liked it.

I was unimpressed, but I may give it another chance. We’ll see.

As a totally new and utterly-unrelated-to-anything science fiction show, it was halfway interesting. As Battlestar Galactica…you’ve got to be kidding.

For me, though, the most amusing tie-in to the whole thing was when a buddy got the flu. There were three facts that he was able to hang on to during the delerium:

1) he’d recently watched T2
2) Battlestar Galactica was going to be on soon
3) the machines had most certainly given him this flu. They were out to get him.

It is a bit bizarre to see all these (former) familiar characters now portrayed as dysfunctional enough for six of my family reunions. Starbuck’s female this time around? Odd, but the essential personality seems to be intact. Colonel Tigh is a raging alcoholic? That’s just a wee bit off kilter. (Boomer’s little secret is also a bit weird - not to mention that their version of foreshadowing is as subtle as a hammer to the forebrain. Seeing Baltar as the quintessential theory-geek with little to no grounding in reality - and oversexed to boot - was a bit amusing.) I also had fun playing Name That Location, as I lived in Vancouver for a few years.

...and speaking of things which are only vaguely related to that which spawned them…

http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/art-main.html?2004-02/05/09.30.film

HHGttG is being made into a film.

By Americans.

And Disney.

I don’t know which makes me shudder more: “Americans” (because US Hollywood just cannot do British comedies or satires), or “Disney” (because….Disney? For the Guide?)

I think I just felt my stomach doing a slow dip and lurch to the left.