I FINALLY got to see the series finale for Battlestar Galactica. Now before I tell you how hard it’s been to see it, a little lead up, some of which you know. I read about the first Battlestar Galactica series way before it was ever on the air. I found a great article about John Dykstra and how he was taking the effects skills he learned in Star Wars and was making a TV series with those abilities. I was looking forward to the show well before it aired. Okay, it was the late 1970s, it was cheesy, it was over done, many of the effects shots were re-used over and over, but for me, at that time — well, it was just fantastic. There was a weekly show on the TV with space ships, people that lived on them, effects that made it look real, and stories that took me beyond the here and now. Every week we heard the same tag line at the end, “And so, the last Battlestar, Galactica, leads a rag tag fugitive fleet on a lonely quest for a shining planet called Earth.” After an attack by the Cylons (robots made by man that rebelled), most of the 12 colonies are destroyed, so they find the fabled planet they all came from and find keys to help them find Earth. It ran for one season only and they never found Earth. Well, okay, they did in the really, really, really bad sequel, Galactica 1980, but that was basically an attempt to keep things going and most of us consider it “non-canon” as far as what happened.
(more…)