We saw the season finale to Battle Star Galactica Friday night. It was
a moment fans had been waiting for 30 years. I first saw Battle Star
Galactica at the Jacksonville, Florida Airport in September of 1978. I
had been pulled out of Brasil for a temporary assignment in Lake City,
Florida. I watched the colonist of the twelve planets get ambushed by
the evil metallic Cylons. It was the two hour introduction to a series
that had a short three-year career on network television.
Like
Star Trek, it developed a cult following. The Science Fiction Channel
brought it back in 2003 as a mini series. The response was so positive
that it became a regular feature. The Boston Globe called Battle Star
Galactica II the best science fiction program ever produced. I agree
with them completely.
Through the 30 year life of Battle Star
Galactica, the last remnants of the human race had been seeking the
13th tribe of humanity and a place called Earth.
Friday night
they found Earth. I had tears in my eyes and was over come with joy.
Then the anti climax hit. When the humans and the Cylons arrived on
Earth, they found a world engulfed in nuclear winter with radioactive
ground and desolation.
Come on guys, that would have been a good Twilight Zone ending in 1961 but it is dated in 2008!
Life takes us in many strange directions and wonderful discoveries. It never turns out the way we thought it would.
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