Seeing as this is the new year and all, I figured today's column would concentrate on the future. My original plan was to write extensively about what television will become following the detonation of the Yellowstone supervolcano -- who's ready for static?! -- but in the spirit of Hope (tm), I scratched that in favor of something a bit more positive.

My guess is that the numbers break down this way: 90% of you have no idea at all who Leo Laporte is, 7% kinda sorta remember him from the ill-fated ZDNET cable channel, and 2% of you are TWitTs like me. (The other one percent? Spambots worried about my "girth").

It's time to get to know Leo, because over the last year he has single-handedly created a brand-new paradigm for how TV is going to be viewed on the net ... kinda.

We've waited quite some time for Ron Moore to release his commentary podcast for the season finale episode, though thankfully we did have that Frak Party Q&A last week.

Though Moore went over some of the same things he mentioned last week, there were a few noteworthy nuggets in this podcast.

- Moore mentions that he doesn't know why he likes seeing Adama shaving all the time. I found this funny because I remember saying something about it in our live finale chat while the episode aired.

- I'm sorry to have to say this, but Moore's wife Terry (I think it is) is an incredible nag about his smoking, which as far as I can tell is a casual event. Although he gets pretty gross later on when he seems to have some sort of allergic reaction to the smoke and starts sucking snots into the mic. I felt bad for the guy, not being able to enjoy a fine smoke during the final episode of the season without having to be ordered to stop and having to talk over some dramatic coughs.

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