Living in the Scoot Utopia

Last night, thanks to the alert find and quick actions of Brandon, I was able to attend a sneak preview of Friday's season 3 premiere of Battlestar Galactica. It was a nice event, held at the Sprint IMAX theater at the Zoo, and while naturally the nerd contingient was well-represented, there was also a surprising cross section of the general population as well.

I do have a couple of suggestions for the organizers:

• If you are going to give away video games and ipods based upon asking trivia questions to 300+ sci-fi geeks crammed into a room, have a better plan in mind than "whoever shouts out the right answer first wins". :)
• If you're using the IMAX screen but the show itself is not actually in IMAX format, make sure people know that before they go in so that they won't be disappointed.

As for the season premiere itself, I will say absolutely nothing that will spoil it for fans of the show. However if you don't want to even know so much as my reactions, stop reading now.

• Battlestar Galactica has perhaps the best, smartest writing of any show currently on television, and this seaon's premiere is no exception. This is possibly the best season premiere episode I have ever seen of any television show, period. This episode could work equally well as a season finale.

• Certain aspects of this episode are going to make a lot of people very uncomfortable. Political overtones present in the first two seasons are now suddenly and dramatically reversed and it makes for some intense uneasiness that is sure to generate a lot of discussion.

• While most fans are anxiously awaiting this Friday's episode, I am now even more anxiously awaiting next Friday's episode.
  

If you are a fan of the show, you will not be disappointed. If you are not yet a fan, there's still time to grab the DVDs and get caught up. It's worth the effort.

Thanks again, Brandon, for the ticket!