And on to another series that aired its finale this year. The end to Galactica had been eagerly awaited and not without some trepidation, could they do the series justice? Will we like the ending?
Fortunately this latter half season delivered, it delivered a lot. We have the fleet slowly tearing itself apart after the revelation that earth is a nuclear wasteland, reveal of the fifth Cylon and the cracking Mutiny. One of the funny things was how many comments that had come in last season over how annoyed Gaeta should be, he looses a leg and Starbuck just keeps getting indulged. Finally he cracks and the story is compelling stuff.
On the subject of Galactica I sometimes think its importance is overlooked. It’s getting mainstream awards and is frequently mentioned alongside non-genre TV. I may have harped on about this before but Galactica is so much more than normal crossover genre TV. Lost, Heroes even the X-Files were all set in friendly present day, its familiar and if you screw up your eyes you can pretend that you’re not watching SF, because all that SF stuff is childish and unrealistic unlike say 24 (No offence to any fans of 24 but it does get more outlandish than a lot of SF)
Galactica didn’t give you that comfort; we have humans living on a fleet of space ships being chased by killer robots. Try and tell me that isn’t SF. Surprisingly people saw through it, and aside from the odd patronising article usually citing how SF is normally for weird geeks with no girlfriends, but this is really good, it showed that crossover appeal can be achieved with a full SF setting.
While the credit crunch has sapped budgets, and indeed the Caprica spinoff looks a lot more like normal “Friendly” crossover stuff (Set on Caprica, but I’m curious how many SF trappings we will actually have) It shows it can be done. I just hope a writer takes advantage.
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