Battlestar Galactica is done.

7 Comments | Posted: March 21st, 2009 | Filed under: Galactica

Thanks to Ron Moore, David Eick, Harvey Frand, Ron French, Mark Verheiden, Jane Espenson and the rest of the writing staff for managing to keep me engaged over four seasons. Thanks to all of the actors (especially Katee Sackhoff and Edward James Olmos – I completely lost it in the penultimate episode when he said that he knew who she was despite everything) for consistently selling me every single plot point. Thanks to Stephen McNutt and the visual effects team for making television science-fiction look better than it ever has before. In fact, thanks to everyone who worked on the show. It was obviously a series where craft and heart merged well, and the fact that plot sometimes took backseat to the story couldn’t make me happier.

I can’t imagine a show having a better finale, one that ensured that story conquered all and that all of the characters I’ve come to care about had the sendoff they deserved. While they may not have answered all of the plotholes that beancounting fans have demanded be handled, humanity triumphed, which means more to me than anything else.

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7 Comments on “Battlestar Galactica is done.”

  1. 1 Jodi said at 11:25 am on March 21st, 2009:

    Well said, my friend. For me Mary McDonnell McDonnell and Olmos continually blew me away throughout the series. For me, this and The Shield may be the only two shows in my recent memory that had satisfying and logical finales. You said it…Humanity triumphed and it was beautiful. Heart wrenchingly beautiful. I was so resistant to watching some “spaceship” show dominated by special effects. I could not have been more wrong. So say we all.

  2. 2 Casey said at 3:49 pm on March 21st, 2009:

    I don’t want to leave spoiler bombs in your comments section, so I’ll simply say that I was wildly disappointed, and not for the reasons listed in that link.

    I just feel as though the writers completely copped out in a few places, and the very end was silly beyond belief.

    A show this morally complex, realistic (in tone), and philosophical deserved better than the finale delivered.

  3. 3 Jeff Munson said at 5:56 pm on March 21st, 2009:

    I agree wholeheartedly sir, an excellent ending to an amazing show!

  4. 4 Tim O'Neil said at 2:35 am on March 22nd, 2009:

    No Daggits, no sale.

  5. 5 Peter Timony said at 2:31 pm on March 23rd, 2009:

    Thanks for your kind words about NIGHT OWLS!

  6. 6 Peter Timony said at 2:32 pm on March 23rd, 2009:

    Um, that reply was supposed to be under your article about webcomics made by Twitter users, part 3, sorry!

  7. 7 Dayv said at 11:39 am on March 26th, 2009:

    Several days later…

    I thought it was a good series finale, until 38,000 people who could never agree about anything except that it would be nice to not die suddenly agreed to a completely harebrained idea.  In a show full of prophesies, love-powered reproduction, various forms of resurrection, and seemingly endless supplies of tobacco and alcohol even when food ran scarce, it took that to finally break my suspension of disbelief.