re: I just finished Battlestar Galactica. (Spoilers Within)

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Meh. didn't bother me. I was more surprised by their splitting up and diluting their bloodline. Full thoughts are on the bottom of the first page.

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Then you aren't using a shred of logic. These people already spent time on a prison planet because they stranded themselves.

The whole abandoning tech to hide is also nonsense as the cylons would search any planet that had life sustaining properties.

As a SG watcher like you, I too thought of the replicators and the fact one surviving cylon would be able to repopulate.

It wasn't until I rewatched the resurrection ship episode that I confirmed what I thought. There is a resurrection plant on the cylon home planet. 6 pretty much said the ship was for cylons that died too far from the home planet.

So it was sheer madness for the humans to just stop on the planet. Especially after destroying so many cylons. They stranded themselves after seriously pissing the cylons off.

Just makes no sense.

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I finished BSG last night, and though I was ok with just about everything, no one has really complained about the Starbuck resolution, which really wasn't a resolution. That part left me wanting.

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Yes. This is the biggest complaint for me. WTF is up with her?

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Also shouldn't they be able to rebuild it themselves.

The whole idea that the creators made everything is hinky to me given that the original cylon war was fought with the old centurion style cylons.

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I guess the explanation is that it is really just too complex of tech, and it took all five of them to do it.

The timeline of their universe is kind of weird. I would like to see a flowchart/ inception/ primer style mapping of it....

The 5 came form the original 13, made it to Caprica after a long arse journey, created the 8 human cylons, SO where do the "old" looking model (technically new model) caprican created cylons play into the mix? If you think about it, the cylons the BSG crew are fighting the entire series are actually from and or spawned by the 13th tribes cylons. They only fought their own cylons in the first war.


I don't know, man. They had to wrap it up some how, and they way they chose didn't bother me that much. Yeah, you have to make some leaps, but again, what were they going to do with Galatica in shambles. They essentially gave up on the fight.

How would you have ended it? Again, I probably would have gone screen black, or maybe white, after the shot showing them crossing over the moon and left it up to the viewer to decide. Which, would have likely had more fallout than the current finale.

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How would you have ended it?

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If I could answer this I would be in Hollywood with icecreampaintjob banging 11s while cruising in my Lamb.

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I just finished watching the finale, and I really hate where this show went. The Bob Dylan song, Kara being magic or a ghost, Gaius and Six also being magic. Such promise to fall off so drastically. There were still very good episodes in the later seasons, and the character development was superb. But it was a lot better in the earlier seasons before they introduced such a strong religious element

I thought the show really fell out during the Gaius trial (weren't their budget issues? Makes sense since it didn't require any CGI) and I didn't like the magic shite, either. The first two seasons were so good, though, and it still had some redeeming qualities when it fell off. The episodes where the Cylons attacked every half hour (?) and the planetary rescue when Galactica jumps into the atmosphere were some of the best things ever put on television.

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Angel

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I know. My comment was sarcastic as I think the angel thing was ridiculous.

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The final shot of the series. Again slightly sarcastic, as I guess those were supposed to be angels who had been personified as Gaius and Six rather than the actual people/cylons.

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Had been there from season 1

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True, but it wasn't as prevalent. I didn't care for the mystical visions/dreams, angels, magical Bob Dylan songs leading the way to earth, etc.

it's been a while so the details are a bit fuzzy for m at this point, but......


I HATED the ending - the whole angel/religious/metaphysical angle was a complete and total slap in the face to every episode that preceded it. My contention is that if you're going to develop a sci-fi story line over 5, 6 seasons - that the mix of science and existential beings had better be introduced well before the last 2 episodes.

and spare me the schpill about how they spoke about the 12 gods of Cobol and the manifestations of the blonde cylon and Gaius in their counterparts' heads. It does not in any way bring the story full-circle. If you start with robots and spaceships - dammit, you fricking finish with robots and spaceships

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that the mix of science and existential beings had better be introduced well before the last 2 episodes.

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it was, angel 6 was there for the entire series

that doesn't make it less stupid, but she was there.

I thought the series was great and the ending didn't bother me at all. I was kinda shocked at the very end, but then I kinda chuckled and thought it was great.