Pragmatic Prose

I'm not a huge scifi fan.  I grew out of most of that in College.  But I did get sucked into Battlestar Galactica.  I don't even have cable.  I turned on TV one night (very rare thing any more) and there was a movie on NBC (you know the old network like when there used to be only 3).  And it was actually pretty good.  

The truth about most scifi is that it stinks.  I mean most of it is terrible.  Especially anything on the SciFi channel, err I mean the syfy channel (WTF?).  But this show was actually good.  The actors, the space combat everything.

So I got hooked and started watching from the beginning via netflix.  Half way through season 2 it started getting a little much.  By season 3 I was getting a little tired of the melodrama and by season 4 I was too heavily invested to quit.

Overall BS was a good show.  I think the drama was both it's best and worst feature.  

One of my coworkers complains that its too dramatic and people are too irrational.  Of course, I wonder how rational I would be if my planet just got nuked and I was on a ship running from crazy killer robots for 4 years and I drank like a fish.

The drama sometimes overshadowed the cool stuff, but what are you going to do.  BS wouldn't be the show it was without the tension from the drama.  It really was a Greek tragedy in space.  Without conflict you have no interest.  Most scifi assigns good guys and bad guys, black and white, (think star wars and star trek).  Battlestar wasn't like that.  Much more life like.  People have real interests and agendas and enemies become friends out of necessity.

I'm going on a limb here and saying that BS is the best SciFi show that CAN be made.  All the rest are either for children (Star Wars) or too preachy (Star Trek) or just plan bad (most of the rest).  

I liked the ending.  Much better than the original series.  

Rating Series:  4.5 out of 5

Rating 1st Season: 5/5

Rating Last Season: 4/5