For those of you that have tried to understand why I went from a complete Battlestar Galactica fanboi and writing/speaking of it often to someone that would catch the show if it were on in front of me but not worth the TiVo space, here is Jonah Goldberg:

The extent of the show’s political and ideological corruption is best exemplified by the fact that one of the central pillars of the series had to be yanked: the notion that the Cylons had a grand, complex, conspiratorial plan involving their human doppelgängers that was unfolding inexorably over the course of the show’s run, one that humans needed to uncover in order to secure a victory in the war for the survival of their species. Indeed, every episode of the first three seasons began with an opening sequence in which the viewer is explicitly told that the Cylons “have a plan.”

I think he has it right on the head there. The Cylons “had a plan”… we were finding out interesting bits of it… then the plan changed and the whole thing blew up.

Of course the lame ending didn’t really help much, but I had already stopped watching it well before that. The question I asked myself was: Why did I TiVo the last 2 episodes? That was a total waste of electrons.