Battlestar Galactica Finale Reactions

[reggie14]

Given the high percentage of geeks on this forum, there must be some other BSG fans. What did you think of the finale? I have to say I was pretty disappointed. The first half was a mostly senseless epic battle sequence, and the second half was just cheesy. I think the writers for BSG wrote themselves into a corner, and waited too long into the final season before trying to explain everything that had been going on for the first 3.5 seasons. So, a lot of loose ends were left untied, and a lot of other ones had resolutions that were sort of lame.

Am I being too harsh? What did you think?

[Fluffdaddy]

The space battles were brilliant. But the story line sucked, big time. Mr Moore just does not care about plot development. They/he just made stuff up as they want along, not caring what happened in the past seasons. So many questions so little logical real answers

Never missed a episode, but I'm happy it's over with

[sleonard]

"You will know the answers." - NOT

It was a great SciFi series. A hard genre to make good shows in. Usually all fiction and little to no science. BSG did a great job overall but ended with a whimper.

BTW, it's not over with yet. They advertised a spin-off that tells the story from the Cylons side coming in the fall.

S

[sainswor99]

Originally Posted by sleonard

BTW, it's not over with yet. They advertised a spin-off that tells the story from the Cylons side coming in the fall.

A 2-hour special. They couldn't wrap up 3 seasons of plot development in 1 season, and you have hopes that 2 hours from the other perspective will help?

I wish it were so, but I'm afraid I'm going to be just as disappointed.

[SprDtyF350]

I remember watching the very first episode back in 1978. I was 19 at the time and could hardly wait every week to watch. I really liked the new BSG version also but the finale was just plain a disappointment. I'm not really sure how it could end and not be a disappointment though. Seemed to me that the whole final five build up was really a whole lot of nothing. Starbuck just up and disappearing was weird. The whole thing seemed as if they were just making stuff up on the fly with no thought of having answers for any of it.

Oh well, at least I can say I watched the very first when it originally aired, and the very last...

[Fluffdaddy]

Originally Posted by SprDtyF350

The whole thing seemed as if they were just making stuff up on the fly with no thought of having answers for any of it.
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Ding ding ding...............we have a winner.

It's like they never expected the show to last more then one or two seasons

[Fluffdaddy]

No way would people completely abandon their technology and live out their lives working 10+ hour days of backbreaking labor trying to grow crops and build wood/mud/grass cabins. These were people that were use to and loved technology.

Fly their ships into the sun............No way.

[GKusnick]

Originally Posted by Fluffdaddy

No way would people completely abandon their technology and live out their lives working 10+ hour days of backbreaking labor trying to grow crops and build wood/mud/grass cabins.

But that's not what they did. True, there was some talk about farming, but remember this was supposed to be 150,000 years ago. Labor-intensive agriculture in the sense you're talking about didn't arise until much later, roughly 10,000 years ago. So what the survivors opted for was more of a hunter-gatherer lifestyle with perhaps a small vegetable plot or kitchen garden -- which (anthropologists tell us) is a pretty low-stress lifestyle with lots of leisure time compared to modern technological life.

[Kryspy]

I dunno I thought the finale was right up there with the "Tears in Rain" ending of Bladerunner and that is quite a feat to match.

That came to a hlat when they did the 150,000 years later portion. Should have ended before that as it was like "Umm ok I got it already mankind came from them... got it when they showed the cavemen....didn't need the fast forward"

By the way did I sleep through the episode where Baltar was given immortality ?

Kryspy

[Jesse]

It was occasionally uneven, but I am really going to miss this show. It never seemed like an open ended story to me, so I am glad it had a proper end. Lately it seems that a lot of the stuff I like to watch gets killed before it wraps up, so from that standpoint it was satisfying. So ends a great space opera.

Jesse

[ChaOConnor]

All in all I thought it was good. I mean, it was one of those situations that going in I told myself, "How are they possibly going to end this?" so I kind of set myself up for the big hurt. But all in all, I was fine w/ the way it ended with a few caveats:
- Kara being an angel... ghost... what? I mean, if she was an angel, how come everyone could see and interact w/ her, but Angel 6 & Angel Baltar (shudder) are only visibile to their counterparts & their alive opposite?
- Pilot their ships into the sun, okay. What about all the landers? Did they pilot them into New Jersey?
- Lee pussed out... nuff said.

I thought the battle was cool, not as cool as when BSG dropped into New Caprica's atmosphere (still my favorite scene of the whole series).

I'll re-watch it this week after my emotions have calmed down and see what else I think about it.

[mikejaner]

Originally Posted by Kryspy

By the way did I sleep through the episode where Baltar was given immortality ?
Kryspy

Baltar was an angel, just like Caprica was. Not the ones you saw walking around in the episodes, but the ones in the heads of their opposites. Remember Baltar was seeing Caprica in his head? Caprica was seeing Baltar in the same fashion. It turns out they were angels, who were guiding them.