The Off Topic Question: The End of BSG… Your Thoughts
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In order to spur some discussion around this joint and to avoid coming up with post material, I thought why not ask y’all what you thought about last week’s series finale of Battlestar Galactica. I figure that it’s been a few days so even the holdovers that had to wait saw it on their DVRs or even VCRs by now.
I’m not going to say how I felt here. Instead I’ll wait and put it in the comments after I get a few responses, because I want to know your unbiased opinion. Oh… I will say that Tigh yelling in the Strip club was perhaps the greatest moment in television history.
So did you like the end of Battlestar Galactica? Where you happy? Did you know what the frak was going on? Did you even see it?
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March 25th, 2009 at 11:28 am
I liked it, but I thought it was pretty frakkin’ weird when Adama flew off with Roslin and they all knew he wasn’t coming back. He’s old! How the hell is he gonna build a cabin and live by himself?!
It’s all happened before, and it will all happen again!
March 25th, 2009 at 6:55 pm
I checked out on this show a couplea seasons ago because I felt it was directionless weirdness with a heavy, heavy dose of pretension for good measure. I felt the finale was much of the same, and I felt vindicated for my anti-BSG stance to my friends, as I have always claimed all along they were just making crap up as they went, there was no “plan,” there was no great resolution that was gonna tie everything together.
Exhibit A: Far too many “God did it” moments (ie, the floating ship getting nudged by an asteroid making a hand fall onto the single button that launched ALL THE NUKES)
Exhibit B: They had no explanation for Starbuck, clearly, so they didn’t try to give one. Total cop out.
Exhibit C: So the head people really are actually angels? Hera is “mitochondrial Eve?” But it will all happen again because…robots are BAD!
Exhibit D: The utterly anti-science ending. Giving up all your technology to become hunter-gatherers? Giving up on proper sanitation, metal tools, antibiotics, flush toilets, etc? Pointless, stupid, and anti-progress.
BSG sucked, and it sucked for a long time, which is a shame because it started out great.
March 26th, 2009 at 8:22 am
::::::::Exhibit D: The utterly anti-science ending. Giving up all your technology to become hunter-gatherers? Giving up on proper sanitation, metal tools, antibiotics, flush toilets, etc? Pointless, stupid, and anti-progress.
You said it, dude. This was compounded by Lee with the friggin’ big-ass hair blowing in the wind just turning to Lampkin and saying “No city”, making the decision for 38,000 people. Next thing they’re talking about dispersing the people across the planet like they are setting up a Risk board. And they’re all waxing on about wispily about hunting and farming… with NO TOOLS!
March 26th, 2009 at 9:08 am
While I can almost appreciate the message I think the show’s creators were going for; personally, I can suspend disbelief on just about everything, everything except the hand of God. I think I would’ve been more accepting if Kara had been a Force Ghost. (And they could’ve gotten a clear blue action figure out of that!)
As far as the hunter-gatherer thing goes, I could almost maybe see it, but how would they get their booze? They’d give up shelter, medicine, and food; but not alcohol. It could’ve been fixed, if a bit cliche, with ten seconds of dialog: most of the survivors go walk the earth, and some create a little city called Atlantis, where they and their tech can be wiped out at a later date.
So, I didn’t unconditionally love it, but I didn’t completely loathe it either. Call it a narrow win.
March 27th, 2009 at 9:03 am
I enjoyed it. I’ve alyways liked BSG, and its hard to say goodbye to these characters that we’ve come to know over the past five-ish years. I actually liked the anti-science ending. I’m sure they equipped themselves with rudimentary supplies before setting controls for the heart of the sun.
-x
March 27th, 2009 at 10:41 am
Wow, I never thought about the decision just being made so quickly to ditch the ships. I’m thinking there had to be an off screen vot.
Anyway my thoughts: I liked it a lot. I’d been on and off BSG the last couple of years, but the last few episodes were enjoyable enough to make me a fan again. The thing I really didn’t like was the very ending that was too much: IT COULD HAPPEN TO US!
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The End…. OR IS IT?
March 29th, 2009 at 8:08 pm
The Luddite ending bugged me, too. I hope they still feel all fuzzy about their decision as they watch 50% of their grandchildren die before adulthood. Positively stupid - throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Also, Kara could have been a “7″, since there was a gap in the model numbering. Razor was really the last high point of the series. All downhill from there.
March 29th, 2009 at 8:10 pm
Also: It probably won’t “happen to us” - by the time the machines are that advanced, we will already BE the machines. Except the Amish, I guess.
April 9th, 2009 at 1:23 am
Amish people are going to save humanity!
April 24th, 2009 at 1:27 am
I’m the only one in this world. Can please someone join me in this life? Or maybe death…