Next time, I'll think faster.

After catching up on the new, "reimagined" Battlestar Galactica last month (after a few years of being scared off by the name and the cheesy 'Star Wars' rip-off from the 70s that it's loosely based on) I discovered that it's a damn good show! Gritty and dark, with realistic characters that are never painted in black and white; it's a necessary new step in TV science fiction. But while watching, I noticed a few intriguing similarities to another show I am already deeply obsessed with (and have been since day 1), that being LOST. I'll probably write more about this later, but both shows deal with groups of people that have survived a disaster and now struggle to make a new civilization, while dealing with constant crises of faith and infiltrations by enemy forces that are indistinguishable from normal human beings ("The Others" for LOST, and the human-looking Cylon agents from Battlestar). So many interesting parallels; these shows just had to be combined into one earth-shattering blog post!

Unfortunately I was bested by none other than Dwight Schrute, everyone's favourite nerd from NBC's The Office. I kid you not. Here is his amazing pitch for what could be the best TV crossover ever: LOST BATTLESTAR.

In other news of awesome ideas I should have had before these guys: who needs a magic-eight-ball when you've got the power of an entire world of internet addicts at your disposal? The guys at Dear Internet believe in the power of a concensus of Internet users to solve ALL of life's problems. Don't know if you should ask your co-worker out on a date? Ask the Internet. Not sure if there is a God? Ask the Internet. And a question on everyone's mind: Who would win in a fight, a flying shark or a flying crocodile? The Internet may even find an answer to that. Someday. If we're lucky.