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Edited on Sun Mar-22-09 08:52 AM by AllentownJake
On Friday, the best and most important TV show of my life went off the air for good. It had to happen sooner or later. I first came to the show in the second season. I had just been dumped, my job was going terribly, and due to some depression I was experiencing I was totally isolated. Soon I'd be dealing with the death of my father and more horrible life experiences. I was pretty much in an awful pit. The friend who introduced me to the show and gave me the first season of DVDs was worried about me watching it in the first place because of my depression...but it was something she loved and I wanted to see what it was about. We are different but we tend to have the same twisted view of the world.
A little background for those who never seen the show. The show is about a civilization that is destroyed by artificial intelligence that the civilization itself created. 50,000 people in a fleet of ships survive and our hunted by the artificial intelligence. The artifical intelligence has developed the technology to make themselves look human. It has alot of science fiction but in the end, the show is really about us right now, not an advanced civilization somewhere in space.
Than a show came along that alot of people find totally depressing and it held me together. An episode of Battlestar rarely ends well. Most of the time they get themselves out of some horrible situation in a way that compromises the characters and shows their weaknesses as people only at the end of the episode to discover a worst crisis is on their way. There are totally selfish characters that seem always to manage to survive and good characters that die off or seem to go through hell for no reason. People discover they are not who they think they are literally (characters who think they are human find out that they are actually the artificial intelligence). People when confronted with survival due things to survive that they never would have even contemplated doing before they were taken from their beautiful civilization and hunted.
The show got me through the dark times. It gave me something to look forward to. When I really wished I could just sleep for 3 years and wake up in another reality, Battlestar was there for me.
What some see as a depressing show I saw as absolutely beautiful. With its complexity and honesty about the human condition. The other thing is there are really no evil characters. Even the worse character in the show Cavil, an artificial intelligence full of rage, jealousy, and anger that he was even created in the first place, has some very human qualities though he has few redeeming ones.
The ending wasn't great, but it wasn't awful either. Like anything there are parts I absolutely love and with anything that involves my wierd way of looking at the world the parts I loved, are probably not the parts everyone else loved.
At the end of the show I'm left with this profound truth. Its never going to end well for any of us. The ending isn't the part that it is important. Its the time between the beginning and the end.
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