Delve Into 'Battlestar Galactica'

If the phrase "Battlestar Galactica" brings to mind a 1970s TV show filled with cheesy special effects, silly plotlines and Bonanza's Lorne Greene dressed in a flowing velvet cape, it's time to clear your head and flip on the SciFi channel on a Friday night.

There you'll find a dramatic reinvention of the original show. Greene is gone, and so is much of the cheese. What remains is a series that retains the core idea of the original: a space saga about the survivors of a surprise genocidal attack.

With the Cylon attackers reimagined from slow-moving tin-can robots to fanatical androids that look human, the result is a show with an intentional resonance to post-9/11 America. It's also one that numerous critics -- including Rolling Stone, Time and the Chicago Tribune -- are calling one of the best on television. ...