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Oh come on.. everybody LOVES a angry mutant gorilla! They made a whole series out of that too! ;)..but joking aside...

I guess I'm a bit jaded when series that I loved time and time again end up being cancelled simply because of ratings and money.. and then we're left with the scraps of half baked concepts and quick thrills. For me, I love immersing myself into a story with many complex layers and something that forces your mind to think out of the box while still clinging to a sense of realism. It's a fine balance which is hard to maintain.. the series Lost found that out all too well and all too late. But we don't get that quality programming often enough any more. BSG was a special gem because it got a reboot from an older version of the story that was quite popular and campy in the 70s. They were allowed some benefit of the doubt at first because it was a well known franchise. At first, when I heard they were redoing BSG, I rolled my eyes because I was never really crazy over the original. But the new guys at the helm were phenomenal in turning that story into something real, relevant and foreboding.. It's rare when I feel excitement like that. I feel that excitement with Game of Thrones as well because there I read the books well before the series became established, and I find it remarkable that the tv adaptation is very close to the way I imagined it would be but with some obvious and delightful twists along the way. Black Sails is brilliantly done as well and I guess it helps that it is rooted in a great legend but the telling of the story is so masterfully done it's marvel to watch.. those 2 are lucky though to have survived in a sea of mediocrity. There are a few other interesting shows out there too, but it's a big question whether they will ride the storm.. where so many others have fallen.. like Firefly, Continuum, Stargate Universe (the only SG series that was more than just thrills and joy rides), Farscape and even Babylon 5 (it was slotted to be cancelled in the 4th of 5 seasons it was planned for, and so the 5 yr story arc was compressed to 4 seasons.. and then last minute, it was given new life with a 5th season.. but it was an empty shell because a lot of the plot threads were already wrapped up by then).

But yeah, I take what I can get.. I just hope The Man in the High Castle isn't cancelled .. another brilliant gem in that great big sea.. which deserves to see the light of day!