Nope -- they're trying to compare her to Bush:

Similarly, President Laura Roslin (played by Mary McDonnell) is not simply a stand-in for Bush, but she was an unprepared chief executive -- forty-third in the line of succession -- who has lately turned to holy scriptures to guide her through a time of war. (Note, too, the number forty-three.) On one show she says, "The interesting thing about being president is you don't have to explain yourself to anybody," a direct lift of a Bush quote in Bob Woodward's Bush at War.

The flying? The ring? ETC - - that was a dream, right?

Hmmm, not a dream. . . so, does this mean that Lana dies?

Also, so funny that the whole Supes turning coal into a diamond-thing just came up on the Colbert Report. . . although that isn't exactly what Clark did.

Nope -- they're trying to compare her to Bush:

I'd say that those similarities are rather tenuous. Also, Moore has stated that he doesn't mean the show to be a direct parallel to events in the US (if his intent is relevent here). He gave the example of the anti-war people being the villians in last week's episode.

Damn, that was good. They're not going to take it back, are they?

Of course, they took it back and I guess that the Smallville folks haven't heard of the new Superman canon either. . .or maybe the old canon is the new canon.

I have a different nit to pick in that article (though it is a good piece):

The original Battlestar Galactica aired on ABC for one season and was such a blatant rip-off of Star Wars, the network got sued.

Er. It was so blatant that when they finally got to trial, the judge said, "Not so much," and dismissed the case.

I really liked this, though:

"I can be as highfalutin as anybody about the socio-political relevance of contemporary science fiction," says Eick. "But sometimes I just want to see shit blow up."

Er. It was so blatant that when they finally got to trial, the judge said, "Not so much," and dismissed the case.

Yeah, you can pretty much sue anybody for anything.

"But sometimes I just want to see shit blow up."

They do make shit blowing up very pretty.

So, how spoilery is the article itself? Like, if I load the page but don't load the images, will I get spoiled?

Oh, it's just the photo; the article itself is spoiler free, so you're safe if you turn images off. Sadly, the annoying ringtone ad is harder to avoid.

Thanks. Yeah, that ringtone ad was fucking annoying - I had to mute my iBook.

Improbably, all this is happening on the Sci Fi Channel, best known for reruns of Knight Rider.

I dunno - I think the SciFi Channel is now best known for Mansquito.