re: #130 Khal Wimpo (wounded at Bowling Green)

Good friend of mine was one of the produces of Battlestar. They didn’t really expect it to take off after the 1st season, so they pretty much wrote themselves into a corner.

The show was elevated by the amazing performances by the character actors-turned-leads, who brought more to the roles than there was on the page. By the end of Season 2, however, the show was really finding its legs. They had no idea where to take it, though, which explains the lame final episode, based upon one writer’s fondness for “Wings of Desire.”

Seems like this is common for a lot of shows, particularly in SciFi - where networks always get squeamish about greenlighting more than a season at a time. The nature of TV (at least as it used to exist, streaming may be changing it), is that it allowed shows to meander (even if they were serialized), and suddenly facing an announcement that Season 7 will be the last season, you end up writing that they all really died on the island and that its purgatory or something.*

*Why yes, I am still annoyed by the last season of Lost, why do you ask?