Next season will be the last for Galactica.

This is good. The worst thing that could happen to the show is for it to artificially stagger around for an extra season or two and screw around instead of going where it needs to.

“This show was always meant to have a beginning, a middle and finally, an end. Over the course of the last year, the story and the characters have been moving strongly toward that end and we’ve decided to listen to those internal voices and conclude the show on our own terms,” Eick and Moore said in the statement. “And while we know our fans will be saddened to know the end is coming, they should brace themselves for a wild ride getting there –- we’re going out with a bang .”

Bravo. Sometimes the hardest words to write in a story are the lsat two.[ed – and sometimes they are even harder to spell!]