September 2010
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BSG Final Season
Like The Matrix this, hitherto one of the most fantastic sci-fi shows that ever there was, kinda exemplifies how difficult it is to justify the Heroes Journey to a modern, secular audience if you refuse to treat death as a metaphor or justify predestination in a non-mystical fashion. Dissatisfying, even if cleverly having the plot literally devolve into literal Deus Ex Machina was deliberate.