So, naturally, I’ve only just discovered BSG. So far, I’ve made it through the 2003 miniseries and Season One. I can’t believe I almost missed it.

I can’t believe that I have a whole’nother season to watch before I get to the present one. This is exactly the sort of quality show I expect to discover after it has been long canceled. The gods of media mediocrity are growing weak. There is hope.

It is stupid for me to try to describe this show or analyze it thus far since I am obviously the last life form in the universe to learn about it. But I have to say something.

It is so amazing to see such a powerful cross between The Book of Long Sun and Firefly/Serenity. The Whedonesque use of camera and space effects is obvious. But the polytheism and the prophecy and the politics and the enemy race wanting desperately to be joined with humanity is all so strongly reminiscent of a series of books by Gene Wolfe that probably most viewers have never heard of… And the correlations may all coincidental, but it is hard for me to watch the show and not see Patera Silk make an appearance.

I cannot believe I’ve not watched this before. I cannot believe there is more to see.