BSG Finale

[shipperx]

Well... that was a highly unusual finale. I kept expecting the last third to be a really bad dream. And why, exactly, does one year into the future mean really, really bad hair and mustaches? I mean, Lee hair? YIKES! And Adama's mustache? Yuck.

So, Baltar fucked up (as expected) and now the Cylons have them all. I figured that Sharon/Starbuck's explanation when the people were pinned down on Caprica foreshadowed a long con. Still, I wasn't expecting the long con to play out TONIGHT. (And I question, if at 59,000 +/- they didn't have a viable genetic base to continue the human race, how do they with 30,000 +/-?) Guess this fall will be all post apocalyptic (that is MORE post-apocalyptic. A different kind of post apocalyptic, though.)

I'll have more of a thoughtful reaction later. I bet it'll spawn tons of fanfic (if I cared about BSG fanfic, which I really don't. Still, I always find this sort of premise interesting and bet it shows up in fanfic a lot.)

Anyway, I might have a bigger reaction later. For now... that was very unusual.

Comments

[jerrymcl89.livejournal.com]

Quite an eventful episode, obviously. I don't really relish the storyline of occupied New Caprica, since it feels obviously Nazi-ish to me, with the clear cut collaborators (Baltar, Tigh's wife), martyrs (Rosalin), and resistance (Kara, the Chief). Then again, the show has consistently been good, so I guess it deserves the benefit of the doubt.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm not thrilled, but I'm not throwing anything at the television set either. I'm interested in how they're going to carry this through, but you're right, it's probably going to look very Nazi-ish.

[kellyhk.livejournal.com]

Great analogy. And it does finally align somewhat with the original series with Baltar quite cozy with the Cylons. Though I now see him the president of Vichy France/New Caprica if he remains in office. Adama is still the leader but is zillions of miles away.

But we have to wait until October for someone to kick Baltar's ass? *dies*

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but they really need to beware of aligning too much with the original series or Baltar would be fat and going bald, and six would have a glittery see-through head and... well, you know after this season's finale, I think I've had all the bad hair I can take. >:)

[cy-girl.livejournal.com]

I still processing that episode but I must say and Mulder & Scully do the best WTF face ever.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Well one must admit that they had a lot to WTF about. :)

[queenofattolia.livejournal.com]

Guess this fall will be all post apocalyptic (that is MORE post-apocalyptic. A different kind of post apocalyptic, though.)

Yeah. The whole thing smelled strongly of desperate reset because they couldn't figure out where to take the story. So now it's back to square one, only far worse than before. Boring. And how much of a cheat is it to immediately shove everyone a year into the future without any real backstory? Yeah, yeah, Starbuck and Anders are married, Roslin's a humble teacher, Tyrol is a union firebrand, Lee has bad hair and hates Kara now, Baltar is totally dissipated, yadda yadda. Big woo. Wouldn't it have been better to actually show how they got there instead of compressing and hinting at things?

The only time Star Trek ever did that was to show alternative futures before snapping everyone back to the present, which is a pretty standard scifi motif. This just feels like desperate writers scraping the bottom of the barrel and calling it "daring."

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

I suspect it will involve bunches of flashbacks to fill in the missing year, and yeah, that's shortcutting through a lot of the drama.

[sarahlynnl.livejournal.com]

Yeah I didn't like the year into the future either. Do you think they will show how they got there when the show returns?

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Given how often BSG has liked to employ the start at the end and backtrack to the beginning to explain how they got there, I suspect we'll get some flashbacks.

[petzipellepingo.livejournal.com]

This hasn't a darn thing to do with BSG but I thought you might find this interesting :
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060313/BUSINESS04/603130351

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Interesting. Thanks.