Ah, totally different Baby5 and Battlestar. It is frustrating, though, that so much was kept hanging at the end.

PS Thanks for the headsup on the apostrophe thing.

your comment on battlestar galactica reminds me of my father-in-law, who, during the summer, sat me in front of BG and explained the plot in luxuriant detail, pausing to expound on various subplots, alien races, technologies etc.

i then watched the show and found it the usual sci-fi stuff and, to me, faintly preposterous. then i realised the missing link was the amount of depth my father-in-law is adding to the show. i think this is because he really catches a buzz from the Ideas, whereas i just see corny dialogue, bad acting, funny costumes, etc. to me, these detract from the experience sufficiently to prevent me enjoying Anything about the show.

maybe it's because i'm a writer and am too sensitive to glitches in story, dialogue, and character, i just cannot step back from the individual and behold the broad sweep of these epics.

I think you might be right about interesting concepts being more central to SciFi in general, but I think Battlestar Galactica has much else going for it. I found I was interested in the characters well before anything started happening in the plot to strain my suspesion of disbelief.