BSG Finale
Mar. 20th, 2009 11:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shipperxETA: Eeek! I'm so, so sorry! I had a LJ-cut and it worked, but at some point when I edited the post online in Rich Text I must have messed it up! I'm sorry for spoiling anyone. I didn't mean to. My apologies.
A few comments: I honestly don't know whether it's a good or bad thing that my 'feelings' (such as they are) about characters at the finale are frequently in contrast to the feelings I had about many of them at the end of the original mini-series. I really liked Starbuck in the mini, and I've been majorly over her for quite some time. The biggest turn around is "Chief." I really liked him in the mini and in the finale I found myself going "dumbass" just as I did just a couple of episodes ago. And I hated Tigh at the mini, and he's probably the character that I 'like' most now. So, if nothing else, my views have evolved over the course of the series. Anyway, some random stuff...
So...Galen = Gaelic? For some reason I sorta thought that Chief was describing Scotland or Ireland.
And, I guess some of the folks from the Galactica are moving to Greece. Doesn't look like the Bronze Age, yet, but I guess they could go found the Mycenaeans or something.
Crazy Ass Baltar must head out to Northern Africa and the Middle East somewhere to start a few proto-religions.
And Starbuck is a freaking angel? Wha? I never anticipated that the show would go so Christian-ish...kinda.Seems like a weird turn for sci-fi (though I wonder if made happy the Epicopalian minister that I listened to through a Christmas serman railing against BSG the miniseries -- which was truly WTF???) But, again Starbuck as messianic figure. *sigh* Never really cared for it, but I do acknowledge that she's been a messianic figure for a while. A rather bitchy, narcissistic one, but messianic nonetheless. But just go poof? She isn't going to give her name to the New Earthly Thrace? She could've.
And I get what they were shooting for with the mitochondrial Eve thing for Hera as they made a really big thing out of her being 'the future of the human race', but it would have made more'historical sense' if they had moved it up a hundred thousand years ago and had it at the dawn of civilization as then the translation of all of their names and cultures into historic cultures would have had a more support. But, then, this is fiction... and television and so I'm simply assuming a telescoping of history.)
Did like the touch of the original BSG theme as Anders flew into the sun.
And it did complete the series with a coherent POV.
All in all, while I've never been a huge fan (though I have been a consister watcher, just rather emotionally detatched from the whole thing), I found the finale generally satisfying and think it did a good job on book-ending the series. Many, many shows have done a hell of a lot worse.
A few comments: I honestly don't know whether it's a good or bad thing that my 'feelings' (such as they are) about characters at the finale are frequently in contrast to the feelings I had about many of them at the end of the original mini-series. I really liked Starbuck in the mini, and I've been majorly over her for quite some time. The biggest turn around is "Chief." I really liked him in the mini and in the finale I found myself going "dumbass" just as I did just a couple of episodes ago. And I hated Tigh at the mini, and he's probably the character that I 'like' most now. So, if nothing else, my views have evolved over the course of the series. Anyway, some random stuff...
So...Galen = Gaelic? For some reason I sorta thought that Chief was describing Scotland or Ireland.
And, I guess some of the folks from the Galactica are moving to Greece. Doesn't look like the Bronze Age, yet, but I guess they could go found the Mycenaeans or something.
Crazy Ass Baltar must head out to Northern Africa and the Middle East somewhere to start a few proto-religions.
And Starbuck is a freaking angel? Wha? I never anticipated that the show would go so Christian-ish...kinda.Seems like a weird turn for sci-fi (though I wonder if made happy the Epicopalian minister that I listened to through a Christmas serman railing against BSG the miniseries -- which was truly WTF???) But, again Starbuck as messianic figure. *sigh* Never really cared for it, but I do acknowledge that she's been a messianic figure for a while. A rather bitchy, narcissistic one, but messianic nonetheless. But just go poof? She isn't going to give her name to the New Earthly Thrace? She could've.
And I get what they were shooting for with the mitochondrial Eve thing for Hera as they made a really big thing out of her being 'the future of the human race', but it would have made more'historical sense' if they had moved it up a hundred thousand years ago and had it at the dawn of civilization as then the translation of all of their names and cultures into historic cultures would have had a more support. But, then, this is fiction... and television and so I'm simply assuming a telescoping of history.)
Did like the touch of the original BSG theme as Anders flew into the sun.
And it did complete the series with a coherent POV.
All in all, while I've never been a huge fan (though I have been a consister watcher, just rather emotionally detatched from the whole thing), I found the finale generally satisfying and think it did a good job on book-ending the series. Many, many shows have done a hell of a lot worse.
