So the new series of Battlestar Galactica.

Sky One got the world premiere rights to it and the first episode aired last night.

For spoiler laid reviews check out AICN, this'll be spoiler free.

It's very dark. And rivals Deep Space Nine in its intensity. The cast is the same as the mini-series/pilot. There are some suprising twist and turns and it doesn't let up in terms of action. So far it is the best sci-fi series in the last few years. Far better than Enterprise in terms of characters and plot, more emotionally involving than Firefly and doesn't play it safe like Stargate Atlantis. It's Das Boot in space. It's that bloody good.

After that ended, we watched the second episode of the new series of Spooks. Events of an interesting nature occur. I said last week I thought it was going to be dark and it turned out I was right. Good to see that this show is not playing it safe as well.

That Poem thing

I never really do memes but here's a couple by Heaney and Larkin that I adore from adolescence. Twas difficult to choose between them so I've gone with both. They're behind an LJ Cut tag as they contain adult language.

( poems )