In his "Permanent Damage" column at CBR, Steven Grant often comments on other media in addition to comics. In this weeks column, he posted his review of the final episode of Battlestar Galactica
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I was a little uneasy with it at first, but I've decided that I love it. It took balls. And I love that people feel upset and betrayed by it. Fuck those guys.
Preface: I threw in the Galactica towel mid-season three, caught a few scattered episodes including that season's finale, then cut myself off from anything but the occasional Internet summary just to stay in the loop. So didn't actually watch the series finale, but I did read a detailed description of it.
And man, everything that's wrong with it is everything that made me give the show up in the first place. As I once told someone when I stopped following, "You know when it says the Cyclons have a plan? Well I'm glad they do, because the writers sure as hell don't." Moore was clearly winging it from day one, though that didn't become apparent until he took the plot through a screeching one-eighty to tell a ham-fisted Iraq metaphor. Every hope for subtlety and depth in the Cyclons' mysterious motivations was dashed by the brief and flippant way in which they abandoned their war and then went from ignoring the humans to trying to caretake them to trying to destroy them again. The only remaining rogue element with a hope for true
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And man, everything that's wrong with it is everything that made me give the show up in the first place. As I once told someone when I stopped following, "You know when it says the Cyclons have a plan? Well I'm glad they do, because the writers sure as hell don't." Moore was clearly winging it from day one, though that didn't become apparent until he took the plot through a screeching one-eighty to tell a ham-fisted Iraq metaphor. Every hope for subtlety and depth in the Cyclons' mysterious motivations was dashed by the brief and flippant way in which they abandoned their war and then went from ignoring the humans to trying to caretake them to trying to destroy them again. The only remaining rogue element with a hope for true ( ... )
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