captain jack sparrow wrote:Don't really know what the show is about....I was hoping someone could lay it out for me....not all the important details but just a premise of what the show is about....Like i said i have read over and over that it is the best show on tv.....and i'm a huge scifi fan

BSG started with a minseries. So, if you don't want to be spoiled for the miniseries, then watch this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLaTmro5MfE&fmt=18It is the very first scene of the miniseries, and does a very good job of setting the show up. If you want more details about what goes on in JUST the miniseries, then read below:
Okay...in a nutshell:
There are humans that exist elsewhere in space, in another galaxy. There are 12 planets full of them. (called the 12 colonies)
A while back, humans built robots to make life easier. They called them the Cylons. Eventually, the Cylons got tired of humans and rose up against them. They had a war. The Cylons won. Humans let the Cylons go out into space to establish their own planet.
When the miniseries begins, it picks up when the Cylons return back to the colonies to destroy the humans. They are able to infilitrate human society because during the time they've been away, they've evolved. And now they look like humans.
They blow all 12 colonies up and destroy every Battlestar (basically their society's aircraft carrier)
However, there is 1 battlestar that is being decommissioned on the day the attack happens. It's being taken out of service because it is too outdated. No "new" technology. That ship is the Battlestar Galactica. And they manage to escape.
The series picks up as they search for the rumored 13th colony: a place called Earth.