Battlestar Galactica R.I.P.

The Last Super BSG Style.

It is a sad time for SciFi geeks everywhere, Battlestar Galactica on the SciFi channel has finished it's last season.

I liked the way they ended it, in true classic science fiction style.
I was slightly upset that it ran 11 minutes long, I missed that part, and had to wait and watch the last few minutes on the internet.


SPOILER ALERT: Don't read any farther if you have not seen the last episode:




I figured they had a few ways they would end the show, and finding the earth of our past was one of the ending I speculated they would pick. It was a much more satisfying ending than the original series {Which really didn't end} . And you could say it ties the original series into this one, if the original was in an earlier time/cycle period.

Some would argue that this is more fantasy than Science Fiction, But I have seen this theme in many old science fiction stories. Just because it is Science Fiction doesn't mean it can't have a religious aspect to it.

I enjoyed the very ending where they show present day, and show the different robots we currently have. I help maintain an industrial robot at work, and it is primitive compared to what we see in SciFi. The biggest barrier is computing power. The brain of an animal is extremely complex, and our current state of technology is far behind the simplest of animals. That complexity is what a robot will require.

I hope the success of this show will give the networks incentive to put out more space based science fiction. There is a new Stargate series coming out, hopefully it will be better than Stargate Atlantis, which I lost interest in fairly quickly.

Here are the Amazon links to the DVD's of the series:



Battlestar Galactica - Season 2.0 (Episodes 1-10)

Battlestar Galactica: Season 2.5 (Episodes 11-20)

Battlestar Galactica - Razor (Unrated Extended Edition)

Battlestar Galactica (2003 Miniseries)

Battlestar Galactica - The Complete Epic Series

Caprica

Battlestar Galactica - Season 4.0

Battlestar Galactica - Season Three


Battlestar Galactica - Season One