The most entertaining series on TV: Battlestar Gallactica

"Battlestar Gallactica" is far from the best series ever to be on TV but it is certainly among the most entertaining ever - once you buy into the premise of the series, which you will inevitably do after the first few episodes, it's impossible not to want to know what happens next to the characters. True, it's often over the top with the cartoonish extremes of its characters and yes the Cylons and all the starship battles are straight out of a video game, but overall the series as a lot of fun, filled with lots of well-drawn characters whom we come to care about, and most of all very smartly written and well plotted - you never feel that they're dragging this out or making it up as it goes along, but rather it has the feeling of an epic drama unfolding slowly over time. The main premise in a nutshell: a force of humanlike robots (the Cylons) attack the "12 colonies" and only about 50k survive, in a fleet of battlestars and civilian aircraft - they continue to fight the Cylons while searching for legendary home called Earth. The Cylons, who can look human and can clone themselves (there are many copies, as we're reminded) infiltrate and are a constant threat - but over the course of seasons 2 and and 2.5, some personal relations develop between Cylon and human, which leads to the inevitable question of: is love possible between these two "species," or are the Cylons just feigning these emotions in order to conquer once and for all? Won't give anything away here except to say that season 2.5 ends in a situation of true despair, but there are some 35 episodes to go, so all is not lost, yet.