Well I finished it. The show proper that is. I still have a few movies left and that crusader show but the actual show itself is done.
Amazing. I'm shocked I missed something this good the first go around.
The fifth season has the same problems as the fourth. It's rushed. the first half of the season is a bit sappy also with that "hunky" telepath dude doing his own take on David Koresh but it was still interesting.
I guess the best compliment I can give it is that after the first season I thought it was an amusing show and such but nothing substanial really. Now that I'm done imo it was clearly one the best sci-fi shows ever if not the best. I prefer it to BSG and shockingly I even prefer it I think to Star Trek TOS which I thought no show would ever unseat for me.
The arcs and plotting are simply superb. It's sort of like the Wire only in that sense that once you've seen a show done this way and executed so well, it's going to be very hard for me to enjoy new sci-fi shows for a long time.
The personal character arcs are amazing. There isn't a character I didn't like on the show. Lando and Gkar were especially brilliant of course. In fact I find the whole Gaius Baltar storyline from BSG farily trite now because Lando's story is a much better realized version of it.
Simply stunning.
I'm sad to see a couple of the character like Gkar and the Doctor died in real life.
