battlestar

Now, this series their main homeworld now is a planet called Caprica, which the Cylons have managed to poison or something (pretty unclear) and wiped out nearly the entire human population like a exterminator sprays for bugs. Basically, the only humans left are those who were in space already, there were a few survivors on Caprica and the other . The planet is still intact, and there is a story line taking place on it and it's crawling in human-model Cylons, so it's not exactly clear HOW they managed to destroy the humans there. A few human characters from the one remaining Battlestar, the Gallactica, have either crashed or gone to Caprica in search of various things.

Earth is a fabled homeland, from where they came but have lost knowledge of. Most think it's a myth.

If you missed first season you missed a lot, but it's not to late to jump in and enjoy this great series full of seat gripping drama when season two starts tommorow, July 15th. Forget it's Science Fiction, if that helps you, it's got human drama to spare. You can watch the series online if you want, or I have prepared a primer to the series below:

There are no aliens in this spacebound saga, just a lonely pack or suriving humans trying to find Earth after theirs was destroyed by the very robots they created - the Cylons.

There were originally 13 tribes of humans that came from a place called Kobol, one tribe, the "lost tribe" went off to find their fabled holyland, Earth. The rest stayed, and propagated and soon, even Kobol was a forgotten mythical place. The human reace now consists of less than 250 thousand refugees on a series of spaceships now trying to find thier fabled lost tribe and a place to call home while trying to avoid further extinction by the Cylons, a robotic force that once was created by the Humans themselves. How the Cyclons destroyed the humans is never exactly said (that I recall, but it's in the orginal miniseries pilot) other than it seems to have wiped out about 99% of the humans the planet is still there, it's just an empty planet now other than being crawling with Cylons (see part 3 later).

As I stand in the grocery store today trying to decide between the four covers of the current TV guide to peruse at home with my very favorite studs on them  - and it hits me what a turn about The SciFi Channel has had since it's aquistion by NBC last year. They've finally arrived.

Three years ago they cancelled fan favorite and critic lovechild Farscape because the parent company, Vivendi, was broke and had no money to fund the next season.  They instead put the little money they did have in getting Stargate to move from pay cable, and it takes off, and reproduces in another watchable spinoff, Stargate: Atlantis. They weren't in a great place, but they were surviving pretty well.

Then NBC buys Vivendi and actually starts making things better, something even I never expected to happen.