you've just been cylon'd sci-fi rant 2

I just finished season 2 of battle star galactiga. this show rocks me in ways I've never dreamed possible. I have vary mixed feelings on the season finale though. It was good that they changed what was up before it got old, but I felt there were better ways of doing that.

I think I'm burned out on it for now, especially with the kind of weak ending to season 2. Some of the aspects of the situation they're in they handle well, especially in the first season where an episode about them getting more fuel is exciting. I mean the human population was reduced to 50,000 spread across something like 30 ships, its a hard concept to grasp, as the human race is literally on the verge of extinction. On top of that, they're constantly losing people as the Cylons keep attacking them. One of the aspects I love is the up to date population counter at the start of each episode. When 4 people die in the previous episode, and this one takes place the next day, the population is reduced by 4. But sometimes this next episode is a month after the last one so it drops by like 30.

Its kind of like LOST in that there are a lot of sub-plots bouncing around and lots of characters to focus an episode on. However, unlike LOST, they actually answer questions and instead of replacing them with several other questions, replace them with plot. Unlike Star Trek, planets that can support life are rare to say the least, so when they actually found one it was actually dealt with, explained and all subplots dealing with it played out. Granted, that added a NEW subplot, but its one that makes sense and fits the story.

Basically, they found the long lost planet where all humans originate from. No one has lived here for over 2000 years, and finding it is like finding proof that your religion is true. They had several sub plots and issues with it, but they dealt with them and eventually used that to find out where the legendary 13th colony (earth) of Kobold was. Now they have a new objective, get to earth because they know where it is now (kinda, they know the direction and what to look for basically).

At the end of season two, it does get a little more complicated as they deal more with the politics of the surviving fleet, and less on other questions that I would of liked to see answered. For example, they never explained how hey had enough food for everyone, even after explaining how much food they would need per month (lots).

Hopefully they'll pick things up a bit in season 3 (which I'm going to try to severely limit the number of episodes I watch, as I don't think season 4 will come out until 08) and get things back to a state of equilibrium