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

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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"