For several years Chocolate Snowflake and I have been riveted to the television set over the BattleStar Galactica series. I can count on one hand the programs that she and I watch with devotional religion, better known as DVR, and BSG is one of those shows (FYI – The Office, 30 Rock, SNL and Anthony Bourdain FTW). I was a little melancholy that this was thre final season of BSG. The show has been more than a little entertaining and exciting considering the premise is simply just a soap opera on a space submarine.
There have been real life themes addressed on this program that transcend the overall plotlines and make you forget that you are watching a science fiction program. I’ve discussed the movie BladeRunner here on this site often. BSG picks up on that theme of what exactly constitutes humanity. We are confronted with characters that are machines in theory, but they respond to situations with emotion that is raw and palpable to that of any “human”. Racism was laid bare and dissected when the viewer had to consider the differences between the human and Cylon perspectives.
“Why can’t we all just get along?”
– RODNEY KING
The BSG finale was going to the answer to this question. The answer was going to lie inside of the mind of a child. Isn’t that where the universe is always the most majestic. Children don’t understand shit like racism or recessions. I thought the writers would bring us to this conclusion but instead they gave us a wild and meaningless shootout and a final thirty minutes of misplaced sentimentality. WTF?!? I have not spent the last four years of my life following this show to be let down like this.
BattleStar Galactica should be ashamed with itself for treating its viewers to such a lazy and morose finale. If I had know they would finish their production in this manner I would have never invested a minute in tuning in this season. It was like getting 24 hours of constant intense foreplay only to find out that the lady spooning your sachs had her vagina removed. At least the Cylons Boomer and Number 6 had operable vaginas.
The final episode was actually pretty excellent. You were disappointed DP because the writers didn’t seem fit to have the final episode be some examination by cylons of Hera’s mind? I much prefer the ending they did decide to bring us, than that overly rational ending.
After going through several years of a melodrama that examined the intricacies of humanity and the RATIONALE for humanity it seemed like a copout to have the finale flame out in a gun battle. And then we are told that all of this action preceded our civilization by tens of thousands of years? Huh? WTF?
Wouldn’t that be a major fail (PU~) on the shoulders of the people (humans + Cylons) that came to this planet and clandestinely formed the civilization without the use of their existing technological advances? The finale was str8 bolshevik. It made no effing sense. No, excuse me, it made no FRAKKING sense.
Also, I was quite thoroughly pissed off at the notion that these space travelers were the forebears of humans on what I consider Earth. I wish Galactica were still in orbit so I could take a raptor up there and jump my ass to a planet with sexy women with 3 tittays. James Tiberius Kirk would do that shit.
They may’ve had operable Hot Pockets, but judging from the long ass torsos in the above photo, the couldn’t reach the pocket for poppage. That, friends, could never be good.
Word. Is. Bawn.
My husband wants this for his birthday…theWHOLE beginning series…I need a hook up cause they want stupid money on Ebay!
That show too high-brained for me, I stopped watching when I couldn’t figure out why all the chix looked the same.
And even though I watched the last episode, I got it, but I didn’t get it.
And I still don’t get why they made Starbuck a female(a fugly one at that!)
Just catching up to the 2nd 1/2 of this season. Like u dropped on twitter, I always thought bsg > the wire, hard body wise.
Yep, I agree.. the ending was straight up bullshit… but I sort of saw it coming around season two where it seemed like the writers themselves had no idea where the show was going. The finale used every stupid ending that anyone has ever thought of and rolled them into one… it was God, time-travel.. blah blah blah. Way to recycle themes that have already been recycled multiple times in the past few years which in turn were recycled every decade before that since the start of civilisation.
Four thumbs down.
^ Exactly,
I put my shit on the line for BSG. I loved the constant drama every week. What an effin’ emotional roller coaster they took us on every week and then they just fell off. When I calm down I will be able to express my longform feelings on BSG
See….this is why you should’ve stuck with LOST.