Please I want more and I can't wait until next year. It has already won raves review, but I have only just got around to watching the mid-season finale of 'Battlestar Galactica' and I am going to have to watch it again. It was better than 'Lost', which is still scoring for me, and still sitting there on Sky+ ready to be watched again. I've said it before, but it's the best TV around.
Rarely does an hour of television rise off of the screen and manage to pack so much in not least its bleak final homage to Charlton Heston and 'Planet of the Apes'.
If you haven't already seen this show go out and buy the DVDs, but suffice to say Tuesday's episode 'Revelations', the last until the final batch of episodes appear next year, delivered exactly what it promised: our rag tag shot to bits fleet finally made it to Earth and what did they find?
That's right a dark and grim nuclear wasteland, a world washed away and apparently leaving the characters nowhere to turn.
It was such as brave move to make with as many as 10 episodes left to run. The whole show that is so much about focused on gods/god, religious mythology and faith was about finding earth.
That was going to be their salvation, but it looks like they won't be partying down on a nuked out earth. Not that the show, which began with a nuclear apocalypse, has included suicide bombers and people shoved out of airlocks along the way, has ever been much of a party.
Lots of speculation about where they landed with reference to the show's much-talked-of opera house, which links several of the Cylon and human characters. Did they make it to Australia? Or New York?
Who knows, but now there is a long wait for the final episodes of the show, which has seen something of a resurgence since its fourth series began, after the Sci-Fi channel produced a movie that aired on Sky One here and went straight to DVD. They are now talking of three more possible spin off DVD movies.
This is on top of the Sci-Fi Channel's 'Battlestar' spin-off project 'Caprica', set before 'Battlestar'.
There are also to be another set of webisodes that will link the first 10 episodes of Season 4 and the second half of the fourth and final season.
It is a show that so deserved a bigger audience. Still, now just a long wait and lots of time for geeky speculation filling up the web.
I like this one best. There were no humans, and that everyone has been a Cylon or a human-Cylon hybrid all along.
Even John McCain has been outted as a Cylon. No surprise really, just look at his similarity to BSG's Colonel Sol Tigh. Amusingly spooky and another reason to vote for Obama.
Anyways, visit the very good blog Galactica Sitrep for more.
Gordon Macmillan
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