Up, close and personal

So this is a new example of how sci-fi is doing good lately. Me, I like series than, rather than collecting more or less connected anecdotic adventures of the cast, go in a well defined direction, like Babylon 5, Whedon's short lived Firefly or the new version of Galactica. I'm afraid, I can't recall the old BG, but this one certainly is good. The story goes as follows.

Humans, living in 12 separate colonies, created intelligent robots -the cylons- to do the hard work. Obviously, these robots rebelled and fought their creators until a truce was set. Then, the cylons vanished for decades. Rather than fearing that they could be evolving -which, in fact, they were- humans lived carelessly for years. Eventually, the cylons return and unchain a simultaneous deadly attack on all 12 colonies. When humans try to counterattack, it turns out that cylons have broken their defenses and penetrated their computer networks -with the help of Number 6, a new human-looking cylon model who had not much trouble fooling Dr Gaius into letting her reprogram his defense code-. Some humans, though, escape devastation. Most of them are the crew of BG, which has no network because commander Adama hates security breaches. Realizing that they have not much to do against cylons, they decide to flee in search of a place where they can start anew. However, cylons -now believing to be God's hand to erase His previous error: humanity- still have an agenda and letting humans escape is not in it. Besides, there's limited water and food supply, political tension and at least 12 human-looking cylon models that are mixed with the surviving crew.

Good plot, nice characters and pretty spaceships :)

Battlestar Galactica site