re: Battle Star Galactica getting rebooted for NBC's new streaming service

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hat's a lot of weirdly religious language being used in a quote about a tv show.

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WHAT!?!?! the ending came full circle.

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From this article

1) How does Hera save everyone? I loved that they had this episode prepped to be a big climactic straight-into-the-Death-Star style ending — roll the hard six and all that. And that part of the episode, the centurians, the ticking clock, it was all great. I was pumping my fists, yelling at the TV, etc. But all they’ve done since the opera house visions right up to Kara’s plea to Adama to go the colony has been to build up what a huge role Hera would play in saving mankind and Cylonkind. Well, what did she do? Nothing. The only explanation here is basically that she was a plot device for them to believe in. So the story they had invented around her in the prophetic visions was an end to itself to get them to the point where Kara would intiate the emergency jump sequence. Not impressed.

2) Where did the second Kara Thrace come from? This is the big one. The entire final season has beaten us over the head with the mystery of how there were two Karas, that she had a brand new version of her own viper that was unscratched, and she couldn’t remember how it all occurred. Absolutely no closure or even a vague attempt to address that issue in this episode. This is a case where I don’t necessarily mind that it wasn’t settled. But why did they make such a big deal about it if there wasn’t going to be an answer?

3) Who left the original note for Adama? Originally, someone left a note for Adama telling him that there were 12 Cylon models. With all of the models revealed, there still haven’t been any consciously human-friendly characters revealed who were simultaneously aware of the number of Cylon models.

4) Where do the projected visions come from? According to this episode, not only can Cylons and humans both see visions, apparently the visions are conscious and they can project them through time, as demonstrated through the Baltar/Six moment at the end.

5) How are there two Earths with the same continents? They already found one Earth halfway through this season. Now, they have found another one. Both planets were show from space and have the same continent shapes as the real-world non-BSG Earth. The answer to this one is obviously pure coincidence.

6) Why did Brother Cavil shoot himself? In the most bizarre moment of the finale, Cavil just shoved a gun into his face and gave his character an easy out from a situation where he was heavily invested.

7) How is Kara Thrace the Harbinger of Death? She was supposed to bring about the end of humanity. Well, that never happened.

8) Where was the music coming from? This is probably part of the same lingering mystery as the visions. Once again, it was a major plot point and dangling mystery carrot throughout the last season.

More great questions here

Just tons and tons of "very important answers that will be revealed next week" that just fricking weren't.

I most certainly will not!

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Just tons and tons of "very important answers that will be revealed next week" that just fricking weren't.

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I listened to all the Ron Moore podcasts after each episode when watching in real time. All I know from that

1. Moore loved scotch
2. Budgets were always tight and they did not get to do some stuff they wanted.
3. They were making it up as they went and the writer strike hurt.

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All of this has happened before, and all of this will happen again...

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Cosmic.

And depressing.

Tricia Helfer was a goddamn unicorn during her run.

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Except the writers had no fricking clue what the ending was supposed to be, and how they were going to get there when they wrote all those wild crazy plot twists. They shot for the cheap shock and the unpredictable story line, never really knowing how it would all tie back together.

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Unless Im mistaken, I thought BSG was unique because it did map out the story. Not only that but they were upfront that the entire series would only last X amount of seasons if all went as planned.

nah

they spent a bunch of time setting up the kobol/opera house/cylon mythology and then spun themselves a web that they couldn’t resolve. “God did it” was their final answer and it did not satisfy anything they’d set out as the mystery. The writers strike fricked them also