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When TV gets science fiction right

SPJ takes a look at two of TV’s most acclaimed series and how they’ve gone beyond the realm of television sci-fi as we know it.

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Something you can never really count on these days is for a television show to get it right. With the networks cranking out reality TV shows, the same ol’ standard hour-long procedurals and only a smattering of sitcoms over the past several years, the odds of a television network putting together a quality scripted program are at an all-time low. Sure, I enjoy all of those from time to time, but there are only a few shows that I simply cannot go without watching every week. It’s a rare thing that I find something on TV that I will essentially schedule my life around, even in the days of DVRs and online viewing.

It’s only fitting, of course, that the two shows that I’ve been looking forward to the most, LOST and Battlestar Galactica, are also in the final stretch of their respective stories. I knew they would have to end some day. I was just hoping that day would be much later. Then again, I’d rather have quality over quantity any day.

If you have any interest in seeing these shows and/or maybe aren’t caught up yet, consider yourself warned, there be spoilers ahead.

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