There have been a few endings in the past couple of weeks. The big one, the one people likely care about, is the end of the SciFi Channel’s flagship series, Battlestar Galactica. I caught the ending on Saturday night via Amazon Unbox* and I absolutely loved it. Without wanting to ruin it for anyone, it didn’t tie up all of the loose ends. And, y’know, I actually prefer series finales like that – real life doesn’t let you tie up all the loose ends. Real life doesn’t answer the questions. Real life won’t explain to you why your son asks you for nothing but a red ball for his birthday every year. So frankly, I’m glad there are still some elements of BSG that remain mysterious. If Ronald D. Moore and his team of wacky sidekicks had chosen to give us all the answers then, well, we’d have nothing to talk about.
The other ending that came recently was, of course, our own Boomer’s Day Off, which concluded back on the 19th. You may have already watched the ending but if you haven’t, here it is. The response to the finale has been somewhat mixed, but one of my big annoyances so far has been the number of people who were pissed off that Frank the Tank never made an appearance but, honestly, what did you expect? It should’ve been clear from Part One that we were hardly blessed with an overabundance of money, and squeezing the Tank in – be it a costume, or CG, or whichever – is very clearly not within our budget.
There have been other concerns raised, which I’m sure Michelle and I will be addressing in a future video update of some sort.
* As an aside, Amazon Unbox’s download client is infuriatingly slow, and the online streamer likes to stop and buffer the video eery eight-to-twelve seconds. I’d shifted from iTunes to Unbox because I wanted my videos in a format I could watch on my Xbox 360, but the next time I decide to buy a show online I may have to defect back to Apple’s crappy software. It may obfuscatory and unreliable, but at least it downloads videos at a halfway decent speed.