Ground control to Major Thom!

Hi my name is Gerson, and I'm a scifi geek. (group mumbles: “Hi Gerson”)
So I am SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO excited because in just a few hours the first of ten new and final episodes of one of my favorite TV shows of all time begins, Battlestar Galactica! Now you may look at me and think how the hell did this showtune hairdressing queen ever get to be a scifi geek?
Let's start with the fact I was first addicted to Stargate:Atlantis; that came about because I have this weird connection to a lot of water related phenomena, like Titanic, and Atlantis. So when I heard a show called Stargate: Atlantis was starting on the SciFi channel a couple of years ago I tuned in, and got hooked immediately. I wasn't a big scifi geek as a child, I mean I enjoyed Star Wars like any kid does, but that was about it. While my best friend and his friends would play Dungeons and Dragons and watch anime, I would be watching MTV and prancing around to Madonna and showtunes. But I digress, Stargate: Atlantis came on, and I was hooked, that led me to start catching up on the Stargate SG-1 shows I had missed (almost 7 seasons) and was pretty much hooked on those immediately as well.
So fast forward to about 3 years ago or so ,my New Years Eve plans of endless tweeking were shattered by my health. Crystal Meth had obviously fucked my body up to such an extreme that I was bed ridden for two weeks. ANYWHOO I had returned all my netflix movies and hadn't gotten back any in time for New Years Eve, and so as I am flipping through the channels and stopped because I saw an ad for Stargate: Atlantis on the SciFi channel, after it was done I notice I have stumbled upon a show recapping the first season of Battlestar Galactica, and I fall in love immediately.
Of course being a big ol' fag, I love all the drama it has in it, but I feel that it's much more than just a bunch of humans and robots fighting in outer space. I feel that the writers have done such a beautiful job of incorporating real life situations into this scifi universe. I mean their parallel of the insurgents suicide bombers on New Caprica was a brilliant mirror to what was going on around the world at the time. Something that hit close for me was when humans had partnered up with cylons, and how they were ostracized, I'm not sure that the writers were trying to make it a gay parallel, but as a gay man I sure did take it that way.
On that note, I do wish that scifi had some frackin gay characters for christ's sake! I mean, it doesn't have to be a big storyline, like the usual “special episodes” that TV shows do, and then the gay characters are never to be heard of again! Just incorporate a gay citizen, and have him go about doing the usual space-y things. That would be a refreshing take on sci phi for me. But for now I will settle for my last ten episodes of Battlestar, and wonder what the hell I'm gonna watch after it's done since Atlantis has also signed off. I guess I'll just have to look forward to the new Star Trek movie. Anyway may the Gods bless us with a great couple of episodes!