So tomorrow is the day that Battlestar Galactica draws to a close and I must say farewell to a cast of characters that I have grown alarmingly attached to. Don’t get me wrong, I love media, especially television, but no show has ever impacted on me the way Battlestar has. If you haven’t been watching it, I am sorry, you have missed a masterpiece. Go and pick up some DVD copies as soon as you can. It won’t quite be the same though, as this was the most topical and responsive show we had to carry us through the twilight of the Bush years. While virtually everything else in the world of television drama was trying hard to provide distraction from reality, Battlestar was making good use of its alternate reality to draw attention to underlying questions of the important issues of what was going on around us. And all this with a wonderful cast of characters, some exceptional acting and writing, and the perfect science fiction aesthetic. It will be hard to say goodbye.
The other goodbye tomorrow (for me) is personal. Tomorrow the woman I thought for many years was the love of my life will marry another. I don’t have anything to say about this… or maybe I have too much to say… either way… it will happen without me saying anything. It does bring up a question that has been tumbling around my head since I heard this news last week though: if you put ten years of hard effort into earning yourself a kick in the nuts, are you obligated to savour the pain?
I hate when a show I enjoy ends on me too.With your personal good bye,well you are a better person than I because I would be going off my head(but in saying that would it change anything?),ok I would want to go off my head.Just think when the one she marrys gets his kick in the nuts,he will legally have to give her half his nuts.Wish him luck,and be glad you ducked that bullet.Doesn’t seem like it now but you will one day be greatful.