So Battlestar Galactica aired its final episode last Friday, and...well, it sucked. If someone made a vacuum cleaner powered by a black hole, it would still suck less than the BSG finale.
What I don't understand is, why? Why in the world did they start down this road with no idea where they were going? Why introduce mystery after mystery, year after year, with absolutely no idea what the answers were? Were they hoping a coherent explanation would magically present itself somewhere along the way? Were they hoping the fans would forget, or just wouldn't care?
And, even more difficult to comprehend, why does this keep happening? Why do shows like Battlestar Galactica and Lost not learn from the mistakes of The X-Files and Twin Peaks? If you're going to make a mystery the centerpiece of your show, you have to resolve it! I have a lot of difficulty comprehending how Ron Moore, who is clearly a talented writer and who has given us some of the best drama ever seen on television, could fall prey to this incredibly basic error. I mean, seriously, this is Creative Writing 101 stuff.
I am not a number, I am a...oh, wait, I'm #127. 