Absolute Proof Of 4T

I understand that my view is not a majority view.

http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/entertainment_tv/2009/01/final-fifth-cylon-ellen-tigh-battlestar-galactica-dualla-dee-.html

I told you so.

I told you so.

I told you so: We are all Cylons, and we are are all screwed up by our frakked-up childhood.

Ron Moore made BSG as Gen X's FU letter to the Boomers about having to come of age/responsibility in a 4T. FU for 1968-2008. Same shite as "Dark Knight".

Money quote from the article:

"We wanted to take the time to examine what happens to people when their dreams are shattered, when everything they held as true turns out to be an illusion. After a blow like that, how do you pick yourself up from the floor and go on? Are you able to pick yourself up at all?

This is perhaps the most universal theme you can explore. For the people of ragtag fleet, the dream was Earth. For those of us here on Earth, the dream could be many other things. It may be the house you saved all your life for but now can no longer afford to make payments on. The career you fantasized about since high school, went to college to prepare for, finally landed and loved, then lost when your company downsized. The woman or man you met who seemed to be everything you ever wanted to find in a lover, who betrayed your trust or left you or died. The flood waters that swept your entire neighborhood away. The war in a far away land that took your son or daughter or husband or wife. The spot on an X-ray that now wants to eat you alive."

Ron Moore invented The Borg, remember? The show's title is from the super-downer Ken Kesey novel, in which the lead character keeps getting hit until he fails. Which the BSG team openly admitted to in this article? And the "Goodnight Irene" suicide song?

How Gen X can you get?

Sci-fi is always about the present. This show will join The Prisoner and Blake's 7 as one of the ultimate weird and downbeat shows ever made.

I don't watch entertainment TV to make me feel bad. I have real life for that. I'm not interested in Gen X's pity party.

These guys will have erections for the rest of their lives because this was soo dark and sooo cool. No knock on the actors (who are magnificent), but the guys who wrote this should be locked in the same box in hell the Soprano's creator is going to.

I envision it as as the absolute hell of a stage production, where, at the finale, the audience rises up as one and either leaves or murders the cast and crew most painfully.

We don't need the Mythology Of The Twelve Cylons. We need the Twelve Steps, the first of which says "get over yourself"...