Are you a Cylon?

Movies, gaming, music, technology, you name your media, yes I am a Geek. So it comes as obvious that I am a Sci-Fi fan extraordinaire.

My latest interest is the new Battlestar Galactica series that is in the 4th (and final) season nowadays. The final episode will air on Mach 14. The show is great and hugely entertaining, that is the least that can be said. However I have few comments about it that I would like to share with you (if any of YOU is ever gonna read a blog like this).

1- Having regular TV show topics incorporated in a Sci-Fi environment do tend to get boring. So Law and Order in space, CSI in space and Desperate Housewives in space is not always appealing to Sci-Fi nerds like us.

2- Sci-Fi is either scientifically futuristic or purely imaginative. Mix and Match both and you would end up with something very ridiculous. Hence, using logic (such as laws of physics and chemistry) in explaining how extraterrestrial 'living' metal would strengthen the metal hull of a space ship would never make any sense. So just DON'T explain it. Sci-Fi is not supposed to be realistic anyhow.

3- Reflecting American Politics in Irak/Afghanistan and against fanatic islamists onto a spacecraft population, 50,000 years in the furture, is extremely pathetic. It might appeal to some American audience but it would never appeal to us the true Sci-Fi fans to whom the show is directed and dedicated (mind you that this series saw the light because of years of lobbying by Sci-Fi fans).

4- Finally, even if the show did not end yet and lots of secrecy is kept around the ending of the series, I do sense that a great American 'happy ending' is in the works. So concepts like living together, accepting the opponent, embracing the ennemy and breeding a Cylon/Human offspring is not the climax that Sci-Fi fans were so eagerly seeking after 4 years of this TV Show (and I hope I am mistaken about that ending).

Now on a more positive note about the show I must say that the cast is purely amazing (especially Tricia Helfer and Edward James Olmos) and so are the story concepts and visual FX. Creativity is at its peak throughout the 4 seasons and honestly, as a consolation, I do not see how you could stretch a show over 4 seasons without incorporating the above mentionned 'nag' points.

I just like to nag sometimes.