As mentioned in a previous post, recently two of my favorite shows reached their conclusion. While the Battlestar Galactica finale left a lingering bad taste in my mouth (The Cylons had a plan all along? Bollocks!), the conclusion of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles was gripping and satisfying. In fact it was one of the best hours of TV I’ve seen in a long time.
More below the fold. Warning: Indiscriminate spoilers follow.
In the past couple of weeks, two science fictions shows I follow have had their finales: the reimagined Battlestar Galactica and Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. (OK, so technically, the word is still out on Sarah Connor, but many people feel it’s doomed, and although I have no inside information, the reasoning seems solid.)
Very brief report: Sarah Connor rocked and send the show off — if this is indeed the end — amazingly well, while leaving the door open to an even better third season. But Galactica … meh. I watched the finale two weeks ago and I still can’t get the taste of disappointment out of my mouth.
A review of Galactica is below the fold; Sarah Connor gets its own post. Warning: Massive spoilers for both shows follow.
After the hectic pace on Saturday, the con wound down somewhat before concluding on Sunday. I attended a panel on Galileo, another one on world building, and one on World Domination. Then I attended the dead dog filk and went home. Along the way I finally met up with someone I’d been on the lookout for all con.
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Well, here I am at the Hilton Rye Town for my third Lunacon. Apparently during the past year the Lunacon people changed their versioning system from counting from the first Lunacon (making this the 52nd) to simply attaching the year. I sort of miss the old way.
I’m actually quite a bit early, as registration doesn’t even start until 5 PM tomorrow afternoon. In principle this means I could have probably skipped being here tonight and just come up tomorrow, and from a fiscal perspective I probably should have. But I hate travel and like having the time to recoup. Also I keep telling myself I will use this time to read and to write and generally attend to the personal activities I’ve been neglecting so far this year. We’ll see.
Friday is a somewhat light day, as is Sunday, but Saturday is chock full of things and in fact (as usual) I have far too many things to attend that all occur at the same time. I’ll probably end up just going to whatever is closest to where I am at the time-changes. 🙂