This week I'm taking a different approach to my blog. On Friday March 20th 2009 one of my all time favorite shows aired its season finale. This heralded in the end of Sci-Fi Fridays as I've known it for years. In case you're wondering the show I'm referring to is Battlestar Galactica....yeah the best frakkin show on television, the show where cylons evolved beyond the "toasters" of the 1977 original. Needless to say I'm upset about this. Battlestar Galactica was truly a well written, action/drama packed, well acted, and truly captivating series. There has been no other science fiction show like it and there probably will not be for years to come. Oh sure Heroes is fantastic but it's no where near the same class of a show as BSG. Sure Heroes has boosted it's credentials by acquiring one of the producers for BSG but again it's still not the same.
Over the past few years Sci-Fi channel has ended quite a few great series which in my opinion have diminished its sci-fridays appeal. Let's recount the shows that have entered the land of syndication. There's Farscape, Stargate SG-1(10 successful season and should have been renewed for 2 more seasons at least), Stargate Atlantis, and now Battlestar Galactica. To replace these shows the Sci-Fi (soon to be known as SyFy) channel has premiered Sanctuary starring Stargate SG-1's Amanda Tapping, and is scheduled to premier further spinoffs. Caprica will tell the story of the 12 colonies of Cobol before the BSG series, and Stargate Universe will tell the story of a band of military and civilian survivors aboard a spaceship used by the "gatebuilders" to seed viable planets with Stargates. Sci-Fridays are now reduced to two mediocre shows at best, Sanctuary and Doctor Who. Now don't get me wrong I like these two show I'm simply not a huge fan of them as I am of its predecessors. They lack the humor and drama I've grown so used to over the years and right now I do feel a void. Like um Sci-Fi channel..HELLO!!!! are you REALLY abandoning your core followers this easily?! I remember the early days of this channel when all it aired was C rated science fiction movies and had the corniest ads ever. Then it acquires SG-1 from Showtime and started premiering its mini series such as Steven Spielberg's Taken, Tin Man, and Battlestar Galactica mini series and the network's programming REALLY took off. Fast forward a few years and now the great shows are gone and the network caters more to the bidding of NBC than sticking to the fans. GREAT JOB...really.
All this to say BSG will be greatly missed and my the lords of Cobol guide this show to its rightful greatness in the halls of science fiction television history. I do have to wonder if the programming executives at Sci-Fi channel have lost their marbles or loaned them to their counterparts at NBC. Who knows?! With respect to BSG and all the other memorable sci-fi shows both past and present I for one will be purchasing the box set so that you live on in my home. "So say we all!"
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