Battlestar Galactica - Series 2 - Complete (DVD)

The new Battlestar Glactica goes from strength to strentgth, I watched the first series in a mad 48 hrs and am already gripped on the second.
The ideas, political agitation, democracy, threat from within, surprise and engage the viewer at every moment. Each character is well drawn and the most cliched, a female starbuck has a depth and ambiquity that belies the seemingly superficail idea behind her creation.
Interestingly in a secular society, a mainstream tv drama dealing directly with religious beliefs, the president is fortold in the ancient scriptures, the programes equivelant of the old testament shows a bravery of the writers and producers not to talk down to their viewers.
It is without doubt one of the best tv shows currently broadcasting and if the above puts you off in the belief this is a pretentious and staid programme, believe me you would be wrong, the special effects and action scenes are of the highest calibre and will put you in awe of it.
Go out and see it now.