The end of Battlestar Galactica

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First, thanks so much for y'all's help on my Dreamwidth questions.

I just finished watching the final ep of Battlestar Galactica, and was wondering what you all thought of it (of the ep, the show itself, and especially the last chunk that most recently aired, AKA the second half of season 4, AKA the last 10 eps). I'd love to hear your random thoughts and/or be linked to your reactions.

I'll be rooting among your journals myself, so if you're suddenly getting comments on older BSG posts, this is why!

I have Thoughts I Have Thinked, but I don't even know where to begin, so mostly I'm just sitting back a bit.

Comments

[flake-sake.livejournal.com]

Have to say I was pretty disappointed by the ending. It looked like the mysteries of the show had grown without any answers in the minds of the writers, so when they could not make sense in the end, they just blamed it all on god. That's just cheap and so is the "don't mess with robots" statement that in SF terms at least is almost as old as god.

There were some little things, mostly about the characters that I loved in the finale and the later episodes, like everything concerning Bill ans Laura and Gaius crying at the prospect of becoming a farmer.

On the other hand Starbuck the Angel going poof was rather weak as was Lee's uncontested decision to turn the remaining humans into Amish.

I tend to compare plotty SF shows to B5 and after that ending BSG doesn't stand a chance though it looked so promising in the beginning and there are still things I like about it.

*sigh* The opening line should be: "They should have had a plan"

[raz0rgirl.livejournal.com]

I haven't written up my complete thoughts yet, but I was less than impressed. There are a few BSG 4.5 posts on raz0rgirl which pretty much amount to a one or two sentence reaction from me and some discussion in the comments. There are also some posts to my primary journal that I'll leave links to in another comment.

[stefanie-bean.livejournal.com]

Daughter L. and I called the ending at the end of season 3; it's a plot twist well recycled from 1950s sci-fi. (Doesn't make it bad ... it was just a bit of a letdown.) I was disappointed at the many untied threads, such as precisely *why* the Cylon doctor took part of Kara's ovary, and why there was no follow-up/accountability for the women being used as "axolotl tanks" (sorry, Dune reference) for the Cylons in their attempts to breed. Dee's suicide made NO sense to me whatever. I don't understand why they skipped a year in between Lee Adama taking over the Pegasus and the settlement of New Caprica, filled in only by a few flashbacks. And why did Sam have to die? Couldn't he have gone with the other Cylons?

So Kara was basically a "ghost" or "angel" or some kind of "ascended being" from the time she crashed her Viper?

Did you also get the feeling that the piano player was the same? (He was cute ... wish we would have seen more of him.)

There's more but I can't think of it right now ... it's a show that kind of drained out of my mind after it was over; I just stopped thinking about it.

[my_daroga]

I just made a very similar post with even less eloquence! So I will be watching this one, too.

[tkp.livejournal.com]

funny; I thought yours was way more eloquent than mine.

...mostly because I spent half of last night and most of today composing in my head stuff to say about the show, and will probably never write any of it down because it's way too much.

I know I have a problem!

[my_daroga]

Well, I can see that, but what I was thinking was that I had all these thoughts I didn't think were enough/appropriate/very thinky and wrote them anyway.

I miss Gaius. It's weird.

[a2zmom.livejournal.com]

I have been ruminating on the BSG finale ever since I saw it. I think I will finally post thoughts about it this weekend.

I think a lot of people misinterpret the final message (ie , modern times). It is not, robots bad, get rid of technology.

I do very much think that the earth portion of the finale was written without consideration of day 2, as it were. If the world literally ended exactly at that point, then it was a happy ending. But, fans all make the reasonable assumption that the sun comes up the next day and the characters still have to cope.

[semby.livejournal.com]

This is kind of not relevant at all, but before I answer I just feel like I should mention that I was never a BSG fan until just a few months before season 4.5 started airing when I started watching the whole series straight from the beginning. I just thought I should mention that because I obviously never participated in BSG discussion before and never made mentions in my LJ that I was watching it (not like I ever post in my LJ these days) so I have this weird paranoid feeling that if ever I respond to BSG posts, people will be like, "Wait, where did you come from? You watch this show?" Anywho...

Anyway, I was kind of devastated and pained by the finale while at the same time feeling like story-wise, it was the best way it could have possibly gone, except for the part where Adama decides that because his lady love's gonna die soon, that means he ought to ditch his son and his bromance and live the rest of his life alone. And the whole devastated and pained feeling kind of made me feel like I won't ever be able to rewatch the episode - I certainly haven't yet, and there was a moment when I wanted to just rewatch one particular scene and had to be very careful to not watch anything else when I was searching for it for fear of getting upset again. I think my upsets mainly stem from people going off their separate ways - I'm sad that Tyrol and Adama were going to be alone for the rest of their lives, I'm sad that we didn't get any sign that Adama and Tigh had any goodbyes, I'm sad that Lee was the only person Kara said goodbye to and then he didn't really have anyone he loved left, etc... But, yeah, in general, I'm satisfied with the whole starting over on new!Earth 150,000 years ago thing.

[kyriacarlisle.livejournal.com]

Not that it's especially profound, but here's my finale reaction. I probably repeat a lot of the fuming heard in other quarters.