Battlestar Galactica

The new one. The second season begins Friday. Check out these comments from the screenwriter. They give some insight in to why it is such an addictive, mature show:

"'One of the things that struck me when I went back at looked at the original pilot for Battlestar Galactica was how dark it was,' said Moore. 'I mean, it begins with the destruction of an entire society. And I thought, you know, there are depths that we could really plumb with that. And remember, I was looking at this in a post-9/11 world, a world that had been at peace and that was going along quite well. And then suddenly, one morning I woke up and the World Trade Center had collapsed and people I'd never heard of hated me and hated everything about my society and wanted to destroy it. Life stops for a moment.

'Looking at it in that light,' he continues, 'I thought that there was a truth there that we should go for. How do people react in that moment? And how do they go on afterwards? How do they balance security and freedom and how do the debates about that unfold?' "