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Last supper Battlestar? Moore and co: Good with subtlety.

When Battlestar Galactica returns to the airwaves tonight it will have been a little over one year since the last new episode aired (March 25, 2007). It’s likely unprecedented for an uncancelled show to have such a long hiatus. Back when the third season concluded, I wrote that we’d all be different people when it returned.

So we are. And yet, as we prepare for the start of Battlestar’s final season, I thought it might be fun to explore what’s changed since Battlestar was last a part of our lives. In order to do that, though, we have to go back, way back, to early 2007.

Back when we were all out getting sub-prime mortgages after months of prodding by the wise, old Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan.

Back before the U.S. troop surge turned Iraq into a veritable Eden of peace and compromise.

Back when Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama had just completed only their tenth democratic primary. (Seriously, it feels like these two have been going at it forever.)

Yes, a lot has happened in that year. We’ve seen the hip/cool/edgy reimagining of the Bionic Woman turn into the pretentious/predictable Bionic Woman and, finally, into the cancelled Bionic Woman.

Now, with a new season knocking on the door, I’m sure there are plenty of questions that viewers are dying to have answered. It’s unfortunate, though, that I can’t remember what any of them were.

So, here are a few thoughts, questions, and predictions for this new season.

-Adama and co will find Earth but it will be populated by apes, thus launching Ronald D. Moore’s next reimagined series.

- Midway through the season CBS will attempt to cancel the show. When someone informs them that BSG isn’t airing on their network they’ll respond that they’ve just gotten so used to canceling shows that people like. In their despair they decide to schedule Big Brother for the next 5 seasons.

-No. of thinly veiled Barack Obama references? No less than three (you know, in the spirit of all the messianic rhetoric that seems to emanate from his campaign and its periphery).

Anyway, I’m glad it’s back. Happy watching.