The season premiere of Battlestar Galactica was so good it’s scary. In many ways, it’s a terrible shame that this series shares its name and basic premise with a very, very different TV show; people who turn up their nose at laser guns and goofy-looking robots are refusing to see that this is something completely different: a gutsy, smart, amazingly well-performed and well-written story with parallels to, and allegories of, current events but with complexity instead of soapbox moralizing.

The Emmy nominators are, suffice it to say, idiots.