question is, if the Slayer is the creation of the Watchers back in the day, how did they make her have prophetic dreams? Did they build in a connection to TPTB?

While I'd at first assumed a sequential Joan-of-Arc type thing with the Watchers later attaching themselves, the revelation of the Shadow Men summoning that demonic cloudy monster to make the First Slayer makes me think it was instead TPTB that took advantage of an existing situation, much as they did later with Angel.

I don't watch SPN, but I think I'd expect any 'verse without an explicit explanation of meta-physical rules/powers-that-be to be dualist, by default. If there's evil, and an evil place, but there are good(ish) people who fight the evil, then there is good in the place where the story is set, so I'd expect there to be a good place, and that the good and evil powers were fighting over the world where the story took place.

So, if there was a hell (or hellish place), I'd assume there was an opposite nice place. I think I'd be more zen (than Nutty) about finding out about the hell.

Re- SPN- I thought Hell was actually added at the end of the first episode of this season, as if dad was going to take the place of dean he had to go somewhere. I don't really know if they need to posit the existence of heaven in SPN, as we have not seen any "good" supernatural things (the vampires who did not want to kill were at best neutral). There are some shadows of good people in the supernatural realm, but they have all been tied to evil in some way or another. It's possible that there is a "good" place, but I really don't see it as critical for the show.

If there is a good place (like heaven) in SPN, it certainly needs a really darn good reason for not showing up before now, as everything they have touched to this point has not had any sense that it existed.

BSG will be moving to Sunday at 10:00 pm Eastern/Pacific time starting on January 21st. "The Dresden Files" will precede it in the Sunday lineup.

To quote Mo Ryan, the Chicago Tribune's TV blogger/reviewer, from here: (Tribune reg. req'd)

No new episode of "Battlestar" airs this Friday, Nov. 24. But new episodes of "Battlestar" will air Dec. 1, Dec. 8 (that's the episode written by Jane Espenson) and Dec. 15, then the series will take one-month break until Jan. 21.

BSG will be moving to Sunday at 10:00 pm Eastern/Pacific time starting on January 21st.

What the crap? Well, at least I don't watch anything on Sundays. But damn. Actually, that's sort of good because Avatar will be on hiatus at that time too, probably, so my Friday nights will be free.

What's The Dresden Files about?

Weirdness. Last I heard Dresden was supposed to be airing on Friday nights, with the assumption it would be before BSG once Who ran out. I wonder why they decided to move the both of them to Sunday night.

ETA:

What's The Dresden Files about?

A wizard, Harry Dresden, living in Chicago and working as a private detective. Based on a series of books by Jim Butcher (though they're changing a bunch of stuff for the show. In the books, Harry is very much a geek: plays D&D, quotes sci-fi movies, drives a battered old VW Bug named the Blue Beetle, etc. On the show, he's supposedly more of a regular guy and a hockey fan. They even changed his wizard's staff into a hockey stick. Needless to say, a lot of the books' fans, myself included, are worried about the changes, but are caustiously optimistic that the overall feel of the books will remain intact.)

Incidently, James Marsters does the audio versions of the books.

Whereas the scuttlebutt I'd heard would be that the non-space shows were all going to be on the same night.

Oh, I was so happy to have a Friday night show, again. Damn.

Sunday night. Huh. I wonder what the (ha! I almost wrote logic) reason is. Sci-fri Friday is just sort of disintegrating, isn't it?

Not that I'm not thrilled at any and all inclusions of hockey in genre TV, but wouldn't the Dresden character as written be a tailor-made viewpoint character for SciFi's stereotypical audience?