I found this series hard to get it into, but loved it when I did

I was hooked by the 4th episode "Black Blizzard".
Thats relatively quick. But the show is right up my alley.
In the first 3 episodes it was a bit hard for me to care for the characters and understand the world though.

I am also a fan of Ron Moore. I followed his career (in the first years without actually noticing) from the beginning till today. I watched Star Trek: The Next Generation (and he wrote most of the best episodes there), the two Trek films he co-wrote (Generations + First Contact) and Deep Space Nine, then watched Carnivale and Battlestar Galactica and followed this with Caprica.
Teriffic writer although BSG lost focus already in season 2. It was always a good show but it was often far from great unlike the miniseries/pilot and the first season.

I was hooked during the first episode, when Ben healed the little girl at the end it was all over. I remember being a bit confused the first few episodes, so much content and mythology involved. I truly felt like I was watching the lives of these people during that TIME period, such an amazing show.

Clancy Brown just blew me away, the guy has such a presence. I honestly believe from listening to how well spoken and intelligent he is in interviews that he could be President of the United States if he put his mind to it. I usually hate when actors get into politics, but Brown is just so damn humble and sticks to his guns and doesn't sugarcoat issues as well as having such a strong intellectual background I could definitely get behind him.

Nick Stahl was also excellent as the reluctant savior of humanity, you could feel the hurt he was feeling as his mother was dying believing he was cursed by the Devil. Just the way he carries himself, when he went up to REALLY heal Sherriff Donovan's dying mother when Samson had him doing the "mock" faith healer Benjamin St. John revival I got goosebumps.

Cynthia Ettinger was awesome as Rita Sue, she just had major sex appeal and was such a strong woman. Stumpy was such a different character, a smooth talking con man that pimped out his own family, but there was a vulnerability with him that actually had me sympathizing with him when normally you should hate someone that raised their daughters like that.

Samson was great, it was nice to see them not playing around the dwarf angle and writing him as just a normal guy which I found refreshing, Samson was the backbone of the group.

The show tackled such heavy topics and created a mythology that I can visit over and iver and never he tired of. One of my favorite older movies is called Nightbreed based on the Novella Cabal by Clive Barker, it also introduced a mythology of "magic" into the real world. Sadly both of these worlds never got to be fully explored.