Toss up between Six Feet Under and Battlestar Galactica. Follow them with Dexter and True Blood. As for thinking your girlfriend wouldn't enjoy the latter 3, don't be so sure.

Venture Bros. It's good for laughs, not really a big drama though.

West Wing is a "talker", so you have to be into that. But it's much like House, but in the White House. I like it.

House MD is awesomely awesome.

The IT Crowd - British sit-com about IT workers. It's very British and very funny.

I thought Deadwood was alright, but it's a "hard" series. Lots of grim stuff happens there. They swear like dock workers with ball-cancer.

Battlestar Galactica is really good until the resolution of the series which just ruins the show. Don't watch that.

I've always felt the reason "cutting edge" CGI never feels photo-real is because of the perfection of the camera work. The movies and shows that take the extra time to "humanize" the camerawork --District 9, new Battlestar Galactica-- end up looking "photo-real" with less resolution.

I liked both the first and the second. I think the third was sort of a let-down. Sure it was even more of an action movie than the others, but they don't really explain anything or give anything any sufficient meaning. I do still like all three though.

I think the worst aspect of this phenomena happened to me with Battlestar Galactica. The final episode ruined the whole BSG universe for me and made it lame, so much that I'm not interested in whatever else is being made in that universe. Which is a shame really, because it was really good up until that last piece of shit.

Oh man, I'd really love to see this, if only it weren't for the fact that Battlestar Galactica DIED in the last episode. It died a horrible death and what's happening now is just beating the dead horse.

Just go away, already.

Can we install it on our TVs to make "shaky-cam" bullshit shows like Battlestar Galactica more watchable?

My hobbies include: watching battlestar galactica, listening to heavy metal music, and cruising around in a shopping trolley at 45 miles an hour.

Looking back, I reckon the show jumped the shark as soon as they started talking about gods and prophecies, which are always such lame plot devices. I should have stopped after season 2. I loved the show until it became apparent that the writers hadn't got a clue about how to resolve the major arcs of the story - the story was not planned from the start, and the supernaturalist bullcrap that littered the show turned out to all be literal angels and gods, instead of resolving properly.

I suspect this cheap and obvious retcon will do little convince me that the writers of Battlestar Galactica had any kind of plan whatsoever. At least, not beyond the the unforgivable "Goddidit" bullshit that the series ended with. I cannot express how disappointed I am, still, with the way they threw the show away after having me hooked and hopeful for so long. RAGE.

The colours reminds me of a certain vortex from Battlestar Galactica.

TNG got my vote, but after watching DS9 again on DVD this past year, it comes a very, very close second. The show took Trek to a more serious and realistic level, took on some darker themes... not quite to Galactica's level by a long shot, but still.

VOY was a pretty good show, but could've been a lot better if they replaced 80% of the actors. Possibly the same could be said for ENT, but aside from T'Pol and Phlox (and perhaps Hoshi), I hated the cast. That show was so horribly cast, particularly the lead. I enjoyed Bakula in Quantum Leap, but he was terrible in ENT.

As for TOS... it was before my time, and efforts to get into it have always met with disappointment for me. Some of the movies were good, though.

For me, DS9 was the best: great character arcs, especially for Dukat, Kira, Sisko, and Odo. Lots of Fighting In Space with the Defiant. The Bajorans were an intriguing culture to find out about, but the show never came down on the side of supernatural explanations for their gods and spiritual beliefs (Battlestar Galactica take note). And there was a huge, epic story with the Dominion War that stretched and developed through the whole series, whereas we were lucky if TNG had a story spread across two episodes. Not to mention the terrific production design and rich interplay between the characters. The characters never seemed to connect in TNG: everyone was too nice to each other and hardly ever argued unless they were under the influence of an Alien Arguing Virus or something. Plus TNG's sets were revolting and there was a frigging PSYCHIC PSYCHOTHERAPIST on the BRIDGE, for crying out loud. How unrealistic, how eighties, is that?

Voyager was little more than "The Seven Of Nine Show". Too many episodes focussed on this boring waste of narrative space. Being Borg, Seven should have been an interesting and unique character, but she was basically a Vulcan with a bit of plastic stuck around her eye. And they already had a Vulcan on board! Oh, and don't get me started on Neelix. More annoying than a tribble, the character of Neelix alone should have been enough to get the show cancelled after its first season. The appalling time-travel-paradox finale was baloney, and Janeway's voice was super-annoying.

Enterprise was another wasted opportunity, though I did like Scott Bakula. And as for TOS, I suppose I'm just the wrong generation to really enjoy it. I appreciate it for the groundwork, but it's not really the same standard as the later series.

Oh, and DS9 only had one episode with bloody Q in it, which is a good thing.

Aaaand relax.

Since Battlestar Galactica went off the air, I've been watching this person. She's endlessly entertaining.

More on this in a previous discussion.

Starbuck is an angel. She has been, perceivably, since the very beginning of the show. We cant really know for sure, wether it was real kara up to the eye of juptier, and then an angel, or if it was angel kara all along. Most theories ive read, see Kara as being the one true angel since day dot.

Hera was the best DNA of the last of the colonial technological genus. She represented everything that was good in both the colonials, and the skin-job's (who were ultimately a re-creation of the final 5's race of cylons).

Her role in the film was to impart these beneficial traits onto the rest of humanity on earth, in the hopes that they can break the cycle of humans and non-humans going to war with one another every few thousand years. Instead of just telling humanity to stop building machines of war, without regard to safeguards, and hoping for the best....change humanity, attack the root of the problem. Thus, Hera.

Angels don't always have to be pure and good

The other skinjobs didn't get resurrection, as Tyrol killed Tory, which prevented Anders from unifying the 5 minds of the final 5 to regain the knowledge of resurrection. Presumably a large chunk of the skin jobs died in the last moments of the colony fight (the Cavil's side certainly was wiped out, as his entire fleet was parked at the colony, and the nuclear missiles from the dead raptor pushed its orbit into the event horizon shortly after galactica jumped to earth.)

All along the watchtower wasn't anything meaningful other than as a method for starbuck to plot the correct jump cords. That it was a well known song has no bearing on the storyline at all, just a cool song.

Well, Homo Sapiens should evolve on any planet that's very similar to earth, so its not that much of a shock.

Starbucks rotting viper/corpse may of been an event to trigger her into finding the way back to earth...the REAL earth, and not the final-five's home planet. Either way, the last Starbuck we all saw, post-juptier, was an angel.

^ Yeah I think Chief was one of the best, most abused characters too, but honestly? nothing beats Saul Tigh.