Why You Should Watch SciFi's Battlestar Galactica

So maybe Science Fiction isn't your thing. You don't know what a warp drive is, and you don't care. Even if this describes you, give award-winning Battlestar Galactica a chance. It's not what you'd expect from SciFi.

Battlestar Galactica Breaks Genre Expectations
We all think we know what to expect from a science fiction television show. There'll be buttons, gadgets, weird looking aliens, and dialog that's nothing more than eye-glazing technobabble. But Battlestar Galactica turns those expectations upside down. The science is central to the premise of the show - that mankind has invented machines that are now trying to exterminate human beings. And it's true that much of the show takes place in a space ship. But that's about where the geekery ends. The enemy machines, the Cylons, didn't use laser beams to try to wipe out the planet. They used nuclear bombs. Guns are the weapon of choice. And the survival of the species depends upon one Battlestar Commander's suspicion of technology: he was so "old-fashioned", so afraid of computer viruses, that he refused to let his ship go on line, thus fortuitously preventing the machines from hacking in and destroying it. Battlestar Galactica has cross-genre appeal because it is a war story, a story about genocide, that happens to be set in space. It's an adult drama, where the enemy, the aliens, look just like us.