{"id":620,"date":"2009-07-14T10:43:06","date_gmt":"2009-07-14T14:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=620"},"modified":"2009-07-14T10:43:06","modified_gmt":"2009-07-14T14:43:06","slug":"pretty-impressive-show-to-get-someone-that-riled-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=620","title":{"rendered":"Pretty impressive show to get someone THAT riled up"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Over at io9<\/a>, there is a link to a massive analysis of why the Battlestar finale is the worst ending in sci-fi history.\u00a0 That’s a mighty assertion, but Brad Templeton seems to have the analysis to back it up<\/a>.\u00a0 Unless I have a mssive flare-up of colitis and have to spend the next few hours in the men’s room, I’m not sure whe I’ll have time to read this, but one thing is for sure:\u00a0 any TV show that can get someone to do this kind of work is pretty powerful stuff.<\/p>\n

And I’ll take this opportunity to keep banging the drum about what these people (Ron Moore, et al.) do for a living – they write series.\u00a0 A series does not have a beginning, middle and end.\u00a0 If you told a sponsor that you had solid gold viewership, millions of fans week in and week out, but that the show was only going to be on the air for a few months, would you get that sponsor’s support?\u00a0 Maybe, but networks, sponsors, show-runners, all crave stability and consistency.\u00a0 If it’s here today and gon tomorrow, that’s not really helpful, from a business sense.<\/p>\n

So, who really cares if they flunked the ending?\u00a0 Who cares if the mysteries aren’t fully resolved and the questions aren’t once-and-for-all answered?\u00a0 Was it a good show?\u00a0 Did you enjoy watching it?\u00a0 Yes?\u00a0 Then STFU.\u00a0 I think the abuse of Bob Dylan in Battlestar is basically a crime against nature, but that’s not going to make me a hater.\u00a0 Battlestar Galactica still one of the best things to ever come out of that idiot box.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over at io9, there is a link to a massive analysis of why the Battlestar finale is the worst ending in sci-fi history.\u00a0 That’s a mighty assertion, but Brad Templeton seems to have the analysis to back it up.\u00a0 Unless … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[223],"tags":[148,565,94,563,562,564,480],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":622,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions\/622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}