{"id":324,"date":"2009-04-06T22:00:37","date_gmt":"2009-04-06T10:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/?p=324"},"modified":"2009-04-06T22:00:37","modified_gmt":"2009-04-06T10:00:37","slug":"box-watch-battlestar-galactica-seasons-1-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/box-watch-battlestar-galactica-seasons-1-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Box Watch &#8211; Battlestar Galactica Seasons 1-4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, it took me a good fortnight to catch up to <a href=\"http:\/\/unkreative.com\/musings\/2009\/03\/battlestar.html\" target=\"_blank\">some people<\/a> but some people don&#8217;t have a menagerie to compete with for The Goddess&#8217; time.<\/p>\n<p>I thought it ended in grand fashion:  personal stakes, of course, were high; characters made decisions where I truly cared whether they lived or died; and there was a cool space battle with ultra-high-risk tactical gambits and <i>shit blowing <b>up<\/b><\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>And then as various farewells were worked through, I felt a twitch in the back of my throat*:  we&#8217;d been with these characters for over 80+ hours of television, spread over four years.  It was <i>okay<\/i> to blink and swallow manfully, grateful that The Goddess&#8217;s back was to me.<\/p>\n<p>As the camera pulled back, and pulled back, and pulled back, I sighed with contentment&#8230; and then there was a title card&#8230; and an epilogue which I thought totally and utterly <b>naff<\/b>.  Which brought up unwelcome questions like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>So who &#8211; or what &#8211; <i>is<\/i> Starbuck?<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Who &#8211; or <i>what<\/i> &#8211; is Gaius Baltar if, as the opening credits showed every ep, he was caught in a thermonuclear blast on Caprica?<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>What happened to all the mythology\/religious\/destiny\/determinism schtick that really pulled the first two seasons together?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\nAw&#8230; what<i>evs<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>It was great television.  It went places, and I&#8217;m not meaning geographically.  It told stories, a lot of them familiar, and told them well.  And I <i>cared<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0601822\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mr Moore<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\n<small>*&nbsp; A twitch that was definitely absent during the dutiful but interminable farewells in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0167260\/trivia\" target=\"_blank\">The Return of the King<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, it took me a good fortnight to catch up to some people but some people don&#8217;t have a menagerie to compete with for The Goddess&#8217; time. I thought it ended in grand fashion: personal stakes, of course, were high; characters made decisions where I truly cared whether they lived or died; and there was &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/box-watch-battlestar-galactica-seasons-1-4\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Box Watch &#8211; Battlestar Galactica Seasons 1-4&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[60,61],"class_list":["post-324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scriptwriting","category-television","tag-battlestar-galactica","tag-ronald-d-moore"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}