As a young kid (we're talking around 1978 when I was six years old), I looked forward to Sunday evenings at my grandma's house because I would watch episodes of Battlestar Galactica there while my dad and my grandma would visit.

The only sci-fi I had been exposed to at that point was Star Trek re-runs, which I was very fond of. I hadn't seen Star Wars which had come out a couple years before and I wouldn't be introduced to the Star Wars universe until The Empire Strikes Back was released in 1980.

While some people had speculated that BSG was simply an attempt to capitalize on the popularity of Star Wars, it was the first time I had seen a space drama that was dark, dirty, and full of mysticism.

When the BSG franchise was reborn in 2004, I watched with fear and excitement. Would they butcher the series I had liked so much as a kid? Would they do it justice?

Ron Moore and co. did something I didn't expect. They recreated the universe and the background while still giving fans of the old series plenty to appreciate.

Season Three premiered this last Friday night. A major plot twist in the last couple of episodes of S2 left the story in a very weird place the original series never got close to. It really was unknown what S3 was going to be like.

Having seen the S3 premiere, I have to say I'm shocked and dismayed with what they're doing. I will probably watch a couple more episodes just to find out if what they're doing with the story is just temporary, but if they don't break out of this downright stupid plotline, I'm going to have to turn the TV off.

Potential spoilers here...