SPOILER - Don't read if you haven't seen the latest episode.

BSG set the bar for television series and yesterdays first episode of the the final 10 raised the bar. Many questions answered but many more questions were created. I'll throw out a few questions/comments/thoughts that I had. Some flow together and some are scattered.

Everyone is a cylon?

Earth causes people to be reborn? Maybe they in some sort of heaven/purgatory and not literally reborn? Explains starbuck being back.

Other people (models?) were around when bomb went off. There were other faces. Only 12 made it out?

I'm bad with names but tori/sam together, saul/ellen together, tyrol/boomer together. Did they make couples? dee/apollo.

No way dee doesn't come back.

The coupled up cylons on earth had kids - 12 models but those produced kids and the humans are off-springs from that. The 12 don't know that because they were killed and some of the memories didn't get downloaded. Maybe a purge that resets everyone - like a big ghost image that gets reloaded on the computers when they get too corrupted.

Why was lebon so freaked out when starbuck found starbuck? Maybe he realized some of the truth.

Are they really cylons? Who says that the human forms are really advanced models. If they were on earth and the humans had the ability to download their memories and live on forever, why wouldn't they build that into their machines? We think arms and legs are good to have and the robots of today are modeled like that. Why wouldn't they build in a way to maintain knowledge attained in their machines. Which means they didn't evolve, they were the creators.

From the first episode, we know a few things. What ever we think we know is probably false and it is going to be a great final 9 episodes.

Come over to the GTT forum and share your thoughts on the board.

Today is not Friday. Today is not January 16th. Today is one thing and one thing only - the return of Battlestar Galactica. Best of all, I finally get to watch new episodes in HD (thank you Cox for not completely sucking). I'm going to post a mini-review tonight after the episode unless I'm just too darn excited to type. (Ok, that was a bit too geeky, even for me.)

Sunday - Jan 11 - 10PM CST

The title says it all - Wired has a nice interview with Ronald Moore:

Read an Extended Version of Wired's Interview With Ron Moore

I know I'm going to regret saying this - but I've been disappointed with the last 4-5 episodes. I feel like the show is stuttering - like it's using "filler" episodes instead of really moving the plot along.

I mean sure things are happening, but what's really gone on lately?

We had a civil war. But it seemed to peter out into nothing.

Starbuck went out... and found nothing.

The president was kidnapped. Ok, that was big - but nothing more happened with that last episode.

I don't know - but I'm getting frustrated. I don't mind the reflective episodes. The trial last season was very well done. But I think things are moving too slow now.

Well of course it is! But seriously - what I mean is - like Lost, are we in a world where magic (or religion, whatever) rules, or will everything have a technical explanation? We all saw Starbuck blow up - but you possibly could squeeze out some of kind of technical way for her to get out (transporters?), but with the all the mysticism in the show, I'm learning more towards a "magic" answer. That's not necessarily bad of course, but it does open the door for possible endings quite a bit.

And this is a minor thing - but why was Starbuck's ship rebuilt? It seems like a minor detail, but they made a big deal out of it.

Oh - and how many people think the Hybrid in Razor was right about Starbuck leading everyone to their death? I don't think he said death precisely - something more vague like their "end", but that could have multiple meanings. It could be the end of their civilization as they know it, but not a physical death.

You can now watch the first episode of BSG at SciFI.com. Unfortunately, I'm at a conference, and while I thought I'd give it a try, the wireless isn't fast enough to stream it. I'm staring at a black screen while banging my head on the desk.

Playing around with hulu.com tonight, I found this gem. It is one of my favorite scenes from Battlestar Galactica. Chief Tyrol visits Baltar in the cell and they are discussing where Gaius claims to be from. Enjoy!

No, not that way. SciFI is airing the season premiere online 10 hours before the network television premiere. Head over to SciFI.com on April 4 at 12:00pm EST.

Oh and how does a robot get drunk?