Farewell Galactica...



The final episode of Battlestar Galactica aired on Friday night.

I think it was perfect. The best show on television gave us one of the best shows on television.

It ended exactly as it should have: they found "Earth", the dying leader could not enter the promised land. And it ended with a question: All of this has happened before. Will it happen again?

Just as he did with Deep Space 9, show-runner Ron Moore created a science fiction show that actually took the whole of human experience seriously, including those aspects of our existence that are not science, even though they may seem like fiction to a few.

Ultimately most of the questions were answered, those questions that actually had answers, anyway. The rest, to paraphrase an old chemistry textbook of mine, is left as an exercise for the viewer.

There are those who believe that life here began out there, far across the universe, with tribes of humans who may have been the forefathers of the Egyptians, or the Toltecs, or the Mayans. That they may have been the architects of the great pyramids, or the lost civilizations of Lemuria or Atlantis. Some believe that there may yet be brothers of man who even now fight to survive somewhere beyond the heavens....

Posted: Sun - March 22, 2009 at 06:33 PM        

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