I’ll try and avoid any serious spoilers, but you’ve been warned.

So it’s all over, sigh. I really felt like they could have kept going. For those of you who have been living under a rock, and not seen the best show on earth! Battlestar Galactica (BSG hence forth) is a re-imagining of the original show from the 70s. The show starts off with the holocaust of mankind as we know it (in the show that is) and their escape and search for a new home called, earth.

Now from the outset it seems like just another science fiction drama, with lots of great explosions and so forth, but they really got back to the real essence of Sci Fi. In my humble opinion this essence involves the discussion of big ideas. The settings of science fiction allow the reader to be comfortable discussing things like religion, race, sex, torture, and so on because it is not their reality. This is exactly what BSG leverages. To give you an idea of how dark the show is, within the first 20 minutes of the pilot one of the main characters breaks a baby’s neck… and it gets darker from there.

Alright so the finale… A thing I very much respected about the writers of BSG is that they were not promised 5 season (God only knows why) and rather than have to wrap everything up in 4 episodes because of the network canceling them, they decided to put the show to bed in 4 seasons on their own terms. What made this ending great is the total sense of nihilism it left me with, odd I know, but the whole show you felt like they were building to something huge, and in the end it’s big… but it wasn’t the metaphysical revelations that we may have expected. They paid off on almost everything (with the exception of Starbuck, which they sort of did… but at the same rate didn’t really).

All in all I think this show will stand as one of the great Sci Fi shows of the genre, and in general a great story.

They are coming out with a prequel show called Caprica, but I am not holding my breath for it to be any kind of good. I am however pretty excited about ‘the plan’ teleplay which will come out some time in June.

.joe out.