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[tagryn]

Been really enjoying watching Kings on NBC, but have to agree with AVClub that the odds of it lasting out its first season seem slim and none. On a niche station, like SciFi was for BSG, it would have a better chance, but in primetime on a standard network? Not likely to have much patience with allowing it to grow an audience. Still, the writing at times shows real promise, and I enjoy seeing Ian McShane get work after his performance in Deadwood. The guest stars have been quite high-quality, also.

The BSG finale was frustrating; this interview with the director answers (with spoilers) some of the questions about why certain things were done the way they were (although it also makes me glad they decided to end it, since from some of the things said - which see: comments on Daniel - it appears Moore was starting to lose his touch). I have to agree with Donna that Dean Stockwell probably came up with that idea for Cavil (see interview) because he didn't feel like going through what filming the original concept would have entailed. Hey, the guy's been in the business forever, he gets to call his shots once in a while. Hopefully The Plan will tie up some of the loose ends.

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[erikred.livejournal.com]

It seems to me that Warren Ellis has summed up the ending pretty well. (No spoilers.)

I thoroughly enjoyed the ending up to (and, hell, including, really) the fleet jumping in to join Galactica around the destination (trying to remain spoiler-free here, but you know what I mean). In a way, I wish they'd just turned off the cameras then, but I understand that they really wanted to tie it all together and wrap everything up, so, oh, well, so much for an ending that would have been worthy of the rest of the series.

[tagryn]

One of the commenters here referred to everything 'post-moon' as "The Atrocity." YMMV; I think it just suffered in comparison to the rest of the episode, it wasn't the worst 20-30 minutes of TV I've seen either.

Nice catch on the WE piece. 8)