May 14, 2007

Battlestar Galactica, to the End

Posted by Eric at 2:07 am | Category: News, Pop culture

All good things must come to an end, and Battlestar Galctica (BSG) is one of them. I’m always very happy when serials, like TV shows, movies, books, comic books, and so on have a very definitive beginning, middle, and end. I rarely enjoy (for very long) serials that hang on forever. Eventually, the dialogue and characterization becomes poor and annoying as writers run out of ideas, and the plots usually become really boring. X-Files, the Simpsons, Lost, almost all comic books, and so on that just drag on and on as the producers milk the products for all their monetary brand value makes me really irritated, and I usually abandon ship as soon as I sense that this sort of thing is happening, unless I happen to really, really like the series and have hopes that they would recover, eventually. (None of the above examples were of that hallowed category.)

BSG is getting there. The third season was quite weak in the middle, and the beginning wasn’t all that great either. The ending wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t quite as great as the second or first seasons’. Thus, I’m actually quite glad to hear that BSG will be heading into its final season next year. Almost makes the almost one year wait worth it…

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2 Responses to “Battlestar Galactica, to the End”

  1. Apollo Says:
    May 14th, 2007 at 9:50 am

    I was actually happy about the news at first too - or at least resigned with some contentment that the show would have a finite ending. However, the producers think otherwise: http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=0&id=41457

    I actually liked the beginning of the third season: I thought it was a refreshing return to the adventure and creative military tactics of the first season (after a very melodramatic second season). I mean, how awesome was it when the Galactica jumped into the atmosphere, plummeted thousands of feet while launching Vipers, and then jumped out? Some of the storylines from New Caprica were kinda boring, but I think I felt the brunt of that in the middle of the season.

  2. Eric Says:
    May 14th, 2007 at 10:52 am

    I got this from the thread at Respectful Insolence: Ron Moore says the series will most likely finish and not not churn on and on. Of course, he doesn’t specify an endpoint, but it seems likely that with all the storylines starting to converge and bear fruit, we’ll see the end soon.

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