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Battlestar Gallactica. I’ve revealed here before I’m a Battlestar Gallactica nerd. The series finale was last night. The big final battle was space porn as its zenith. Not bad for a low budget show on a second tier cable network. But now, the morning after, I’m troubled by the ending. It was one of the best shows on TV and I’ll miss watching it on Saturday on my DVR.

Spoilers ahoy!
OK I liked that they went to Earth at the end and the planet was pristine gorgeous place. But the decision to just toss their technology and scatter in the wind like that just doesn’t jive with me. Yes, it was man’s technology that created the Cylon and got them into that mess, but taking your ships and all of the technology on them and flying them into the sun? C’mon. Then in the Coda, the “Angels” looking over the show’s creator reading in the modern Earth times an article about discovery of the first humanoid and the say that was Hera, the human/cylon meaning we’re all part Cylon was a little forced. They didn’t need that as it was pretty implied that the people of BSG were our ancestors. The part with Hendrix playing All Along the Watchtower with the shots of our present day robots and the parting “this has happened before and will happen again” did make me chuckle.

I guess I was let down with the easy peasy “God did it” type solution to tying up loose ends. And angels? What I liked about the show all these years was they didn’t go for the easy out. True, they were boxed into many plot corners toward the end, but c’mon. I would have almost preferred a Sopranos ending.

At the beginning of most episodes during the opening credits and they have title cards explaining the rise of the Cylons and how they took human form, the last card would have “And The Have a Plan”. Whatever the Cylon’s plan was did not get revealed. But during a commercial break there was a teaser ad for a show coming this fall which will be Battlestar: The Plan which is told from the Cylon point of view. I’ll probably watch it.

Speaking of robots…TiVo. I fired up my old TiVo that I decommissioned when I got my HDTV a few years ago. I hooked it up to my old analog TV in my bedroom. Without a subscription it doesn’t to all the much except let you pause and go back on live TV. What I forgot I missed after getting the Time Warner DVR was the TiVo suggestions… it records stuff I might like based on what I watch and give a thumbs up to. I also missed the ability to have it record stuff over the interwebs (and the mobile site is optimized for iPhone). Oh, and the ability to move a file from the TiVo to my computer (they didn’t have this for Macs when I had it last, but they do now), and from there is the ability to put shows on my iPhone. I was also surprised to see what was on the TiVo and what I had on the Season Pass. Shows like “Arrested Development” and stuff.

I was going to return my Time Warner cable box today but my TiVo doesn’t do HD. I thought of going to just Cable Card so I could watch HD cable channels. What I’d miss the most with that setup is HBO on Demand. It is how I catch up with the HBO shows I watch. If I get the TiVo HD box and put the Cable Card in that, I could just record the HBO series I want when they come on and get TiVo stuff in HD. Oh, and the TiVo HD box can do Netflix. The second box would let me stream stuff from one box to the other.

I don’t watch a lot of TV, but when I do it is pretty targeted and I need a DVR to skip the commercials and watch things on my schedule. And on my current workout schedule shows that come on at 9pm are past my bedtime.

Speaking of happening before and happening again… If you haven’t read Matt Taibbi’s piece in Rolling Stone called “The Big Takeover” read it now. It is about the Banking/Finance clusterfuck. I really wish this was being reported on in other media. Like those dying newspapers. People tend to see Taibbi’s f-bombs and dismiss it, but people are worried about those AIG douche’s bonus checks and these guys stole trillions from the Fed and Treasury.