Forever Family

Gotta type fast tonight!!!!  The absolute best show on television is FINALLY premiering it’s final season tonight…in approximately 20 minutes.  That’s right folks!!!  It’s time for BATTLESTAR GALACTICA !!!!

If you’re rolling your eyes, or not even sure what I’m talking about, then I pity you.  What a shame to be deprived of mastery.  It’s like living in a world without Shakespeare or Beethoven.  You’re probably one of those Dancing with the Stars viewers.  Shame on you.

I’m probably the worst type of audience a TV show might ever have.  I’m rarely devoted, highly skeptical, and not easily impressed.  If it’s reality television, you can just forget it.  Sitcoms don’t do much for me (but I do get a kick out of Big Bang Theory ).  Dramas typically bore me.  I feel like many shows are rarely original, and are just shallow rewrites of the same old themes.  I only forgive Star Trek this horrid faux pas, but only because it’s a Star Trek!  Where would modern culture be without Star Trek?!  

Battlestar Galactica leaves me breathless.  You don’t need to be a scifi fan to enjoy this show.  In fact, I have a friend whose become as addicted as me, and who happens to hate scifi.  The scifi themes are fun and provide an interesting and beautiful background for telling the story, but the themes are universal to our galaxy or another. 

There are some interesting parenting and reproductive themes in this show.  If you haven’t given those show a try, go to your Netflix account and add the mini-series that started it all to your queue.  When you watch the mini-series, keep in mind that it was originally intended to be only that.  But fortunately some network executive recognized the genius potential and greenlighted the program as a series.  

It is with mixed feelings that I acknowledge the last season, which will total a relatively short 5 seasons (for a show as successful as this).  You have to give the producers credit for ending it on a high note, and not destroying a good thing.  At least a lesson was learned by them, after a long ridiculous history of terrible series finales.  

It is time.  I’ve been waiting over a year for this.  Halle-frakkin-lujah.  

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