I feel exactly the same. The morning after the finale I had this sensation every time I looked out of the window that this world around me really had been found at the end of this journey and when I have listened to some of Bear's music since it has felt like it is mystically transporting and shattering me.

'It’s the also-ness that really strikes me about Battlestar Galactica—an ability to be many different things at the same time, to exist in several different modes simultaneously.'

I agree a careerist would suck up to him. But her response in its ungraciousness seems to me so much about her assertion of herself as a rebel. She is sure she is better than Tigh. She can't compromise because the Starbuck persons won't allow itBut in what sense is she better than him? Tigh has his demons but he more…

I am not at all sure that Starbuck represents selflessness. There is a very strong selfish and even narcissistic streak in Starbuck even in the mini series. Look at the way she treats Tigh at the end. It is obnoxious, self-regarding behaviour, unable to see her own arrogance. However brittle it is she has as high…

I think the only point of the end in this respect is to make us genetically half Cylon. It is there to subvert our own sense of the Other in having watched. I think trying to think beyond that just creates a muddle but the point of our relationship to the show is worth the muddle.

Season four is actually my favourite. I think the run from No Exit to Someone to Watch Over Me is pretty problematic. But it has an awful lot of top quality, deeply moving stuff for me. Looking at the show as a whole I think it has:
Best relationship story: Roslin and Adama
Best arc: Earth to mutiny
Best single arc for…

I love this episode although I do prefer the longer version to the broadcast one. That is because there's more Adama and Roslin, which was always my favourite part of the show at the character level, and I really don't like that Starbuck-Apollo montage. Putting this episode into the overall story, it's the…

I am entirely Davies over Moffat. Moffat's tenure has so disillusioned me with him that it has diluted my enjoyment of Empty Child and the Doctor Dances, which used to be top episodes for me, because the things that so annoy me now seem in some evidence there.

This is a beautiful piece of writing about the episode, especially Nate.

Look at an early episode like College and Carmela's scenes with Father Phil. There's her marriage, her repressed sexuality around food, her spiritual yearnings, and a thwarted desire for more.

I think my problem is that I just see other shows that are much more interested in the same themes and at the thematic level do them at a higher level. Again, I think The Sopranos does much better with Tony on your first score and Carmela on your second. To be great television Breaking Bad should be aiming at that…

But everything in your first paragraph applies to the world of the Sopranos which still managed to find a voice about what was happening. I wouldn't say it was entirely humanistic as there was a strong sense of the absurd. But the dramatic tension around a world that doesn't allow for the realisation of human desires…

I pretty much entirely agree with the article. Breaking Bad gets a hell of a lot out of intense dramatic tension and a massive central performance but it is ultimately empty. The great shows have something to say and Breaking Bad doesn't. I am not even convinced that Walter's descent works as tragedy; he was pretty…

I am not sure you're right Todd about going back and immortalising the moment in writing. I think Bradbury shows the impossibility of it in The Third Expedition. Captain John Black realises the trick before they kill him. I wrote a piece about it a while ago:
http://effrasebbsandflows.b…

I really like the show but just don't have the intense feelings about it you describe. This is the first time I've typed a comment on any forum on it even though will do so for shows that have long finished. Its intimacy and emotional honesty are attractive. It does craft great little short stories. Hannah is…

BSG will always be the best for me. I will defend pretty much every thing about season 4 except the Final Five as mythology and the fact that ate away time in the second half. The Earth to mutiny arc - including the webisodes - is devastating story-telling and just stunning in its willingness to look bleak truths in…

I actually agree with you wallflower about the limitations of the Sopranos as story-telling just for different reasons. It has some strong story-telling I think around the generational family stuff but there's a lot of the mobster stuff that is outside that and so the story-telling is diluted and doing it really…

I actually agree with you wallflower about the limitations of the Sopranos as story-telling just for different reasons. It has some strong story-telling I think around the generational family stuff but there's a lot of the mobster stuff that is outside that and so the story-telling is diluted and doing it really…

One thing you can never say: you haven't been told.

One thing you can never say: you haven't been told.