Galactica

I am just now starting season 3 of Battlestar Galactica, and am really enjoying.

"Only up to Season 3?" I hear you say? I was just so uncaptivated when I watched the Pilot a few years ago that I really just could not be bothered. In a way this has been good for my mental state, because if I had been watching this week-to-week I could see myself going nuts waiting for the next installment.

It is certainly very different to the original series -- it does not have the same visceral Space Opera that was characteristic of the original series with both the music and the space combat scenes being much more understated.

In fact, the style and the story are so different that rather than reimagining the original story, they could have very easily not used the original characters and rather just set it 50 years later in the same universe. (But then again, after BSG 1980, maybe reimagining had to happen :) ).

Overall, the new stories have fantastic penmanship. The constant mind games could become tedious with weaker writing, but instead the plot becomes even more gripping. I have never read the graphic novels, but when I watch the show I can very easily imagine the story boarding -- for example, the Baltar/6 interactions. (As a general comment, the TV and film industry have become quite magnificent in graphic novel adaptions!)

Final word: Most significant sci-fi series in the last decade, very much due to the quality of the writing; I think it trumps Bab-5 and the newly released Dr Who (both of which I have enjoyed immensely).