Battlestar Galactica coming to a close, but Caprica remains inbound.

A few weeks ago, for the first time in my life, I watched a TV episode twice. Back to back, with no break in be­tween. Blood on the Scales, for me, was pure gold. The story was in­cred­i­ble, es­pe­cially if you got the chance to see the we­bisodes that sup­plied im­por­tant con­text for it. The act­ing was top-notch. Alessan­dro Ju­liani in par­tic­u­lar, who has had a rel­a­tively small amount of screen time be­fore now, re­ally stepped up to de­liver a won­der­ful mov­ing per­for­mance. The music—oh my sweet god the music. Any­one who knows me well will know my love for the BSG sound­tracks, but the music in this par­tic­u­lar episode spoke to me on such a pro­found level that I lit­er­ally missed di­a­log at points and had to rewind to hear it again. I will be shocked, pleas­antly, if I ever watch an­other episode of any other TV show that af­fects me like this one.

This Fri­day be­gins the final count­down for Bat­tlestar. It will be the first in a three episode arc to end the se­ries. On one hand I am sad to see it go. I will miss not just watch­ing it, but hop­ping on­line af­ter­ward to read Bear Mc­Creary’s en­thralling be­hind-the-scenes sum­mary of the score. But on the other hand, I would rather see it get the strong fin­ish it de­serves than see it be­come the prover­bial Old Yeller like Star­gate: SG-1 did.

But Caprica will be start­ing early next year, so maybe all is not lost. I worry about them milk­ing the mythos to death in it, but these guys trans­formed a corny 70s show into some­thing amaz­ing, so I have a lot of hope. Ear­lier this month, Bear gave an early pre­view per­for­mance of the music of Caprica.

Posted on March 12, 2009 in Battlestar Galactica, Bear McCreary, Music, TV

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