BSG Finale

[shipperx]

ETA:  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.



 

Comments

[sunnyd-lite.livejournal.com]

Pssed, your comments are not under a cut.

[ladypeyton.livejournal.com]

Would have made a little more sense to me, historically speaking, if Apollo had flown into the sun...

[kitmarlowescot2.livejournal.com]

You bring some good points. I was sad to see Galen end up like that, but glad Tory died. I was surprised that Baltar survived. And I think Kara was Ander's love on earth, and that he wrote that song for her. She has just been reborn over and over again. Sam even says he will see her on the other side. I read that because of Michael Trucco's accident they had to change some of the aspects of the story. Kara was suppose to end up Lee, but didn't because of Anders getting shot.
I was disappointed about the opera house, that was the d*mn sercet ? Also know that we know that Hera is Eve, who is Adam ? Did she take a lover from the primitive tribes, or perhaps Nicholas ?

[dreamkeeper77.livejournal.com]

So...Galen = Gaelic?

Yes! I thought that as well.

I was never a big fan either. I've actually only watched a handfull of episodes. But since I watched the first few and really had to see how it ended.

I thought it was pretty good. Really made me think which was nice.

Questions:

So...was Caprica really Earth all along? Just a future Earth? Then they found it again but in a different time and the whole thing starts over again?

So, Starbuck was an "angel". After what Sam said about being there during the creation of something, was he suppose to be God?

[sp23.livejournal.com]

Yes. This.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

OOps! It must have screwed up the lj-cut when I edited it.

Damn. I'm sorry for the people I've no doubt screwed over. yikes!

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Barren Earth (that they discovered in last season's finale) was Earth. Caprica was one of the 12 home planets for the human race. The thirteenth colony went to Earth. The Cylons destroyed the 12 colonies in the premiere so they went in search of the (by then mythical) thirteenth colony. They found it last year and it was destroyed, had been destroyed thousands of years prior. The Cylon "final five" had been the only survivors so they had created the "resurrection" process and had themselves resurrected. Tigh, Ellen, Anders, Chief, er... the woman Chief killed were the final five.

I think Sam's comments were mostly just repeating what he'd said in the football interview about wanting to be connected to the physics of the universe, but I didn't take that to be that he was God. Just that he was getting a Viking/King Arthur-like send off.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

In the weirdness of science. Mitochondrial Eve and Mitochondrial Adam aren't (statistically speaking) necessarily in the same generation (at least according to stuff I've read). Mitochondrial Eve is just the furthest common matriarchial line who probably lived in a larger population of people, or rather the matriarchial line that provided the common dna for the X Chromosome. Mitochondrial "Adam" (or the furthest calculatable common ancestor for for the Y chromosome would not necessarily have ever met "Eve". It's really more of a statistical thing based on common DNA and RNA sequences. Form what I've read the "Eve" in the sence of the oldest common ancestor for the entire human race would be much, much, much further back.

Er... at least that's my best understanding of it...which is somewhat vague and confused. :)

As to the show, I suppose Hera could have mated with some child of someone from the Galactica or she could have hooked up with an earthly Homo Sapien. Baltar did say that they were human and that they could cross-breed as it were.

[dreamkeeper77.livejournal.com]

I see. Okay, that makes sense. Guess I should have watched more then, huh? LOL. Thanks for the reply.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

The truth is, I'm not really a fan of the show. I mean, I've pretty consistently watched it, and there is merit to it. There's always been some intelligence in it. But I haven't liked it much.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Heh. But perhaps a bit too literal? ;)