Comments on: BSG Watch: A Long Time Ago, In a Galaxy Far, Far Away

By: The Prisoner Finale: Now It Can Be Told - Tuned In - TIME.com

The Prisoner Finale: Now It Can Be Told - Tuned In - TIME.com — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:50:58 +0000

[...] this year when I reviewed the Battlestar Galactica finale, I wrote that sci-fi/fantasy series finales are different from regular season finales: they are not [...]

By: dave510

dave510 — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 09:40:29 +0000

Just a point of clarification. Hera doesn't live a long life on Earth. It was stated (in the final "150,000 years later" part) that the fossil of Mitochondrial Eve is that of a young woman. That means she did live long enough to bear atleast one child, but went on to die at a young age.

By: Battlestar Galactica, and Breaking the Cycle. « Not The End of the World

Battlestar Galactica, and Breaking the Cycle. « Not The End of the World — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 21:24:49 +0000

[...] Ron Moore’s artistic choice. But many viewers were not so enamored. From Time.com’s Tuned In blog: “As an idea, I like it. As a fact, do I buy it? No. A population, ravaged by war, more than [...]

By: tyrantking

tyrantking — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:51:10 +0000

It's not that I don't like well done stories, it's that I don't like over done stories. I thought it was disingenuous to have Starbuck be the key to the whole resolution without ever explaining who or what she was. Lazy. Cop out. I also thought the earth settlement was overwrought and unnecessary. You really thought we needed an hour of that but no Starbuck resolution? No thanks. . As to HP7, the book didn't feel connected to the others. It was as though she got to book 7, realized there were numerous Horcruxes still to be destroyed and abandoned everything that had worked in the previous books. I didn't like that the entire series came down to the tales of beedle the bard, but those same tales were never really mentioned prior to book 7. I also didn't like the "death" scene where Harry and Dumbledore chat. I felt it was an incredibly weak plot device which was thrown in to try and explain the inconsistencies in the Harry-Voldemort relationship but which failed badly. . So my question to you Dave, is are you willing to overlook all plot weaknesses if a story gives you a happy ending?

By: labwiz459

labwiz459 — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 01:02:39 +0000

I too was really hacked at the BSG Finale till I came across this detailed CAPRICA the SERIES DETAILED REVIEW. It really does explain why the final five couldn't reveal more, it would have shot down the pilot! The BSG Finale makes a lot more sense now.

http://www.fmqinc.com/caprica-preview/

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 23:39:57 +0000

You thought HP7 was awful? Is it happy endings you don't like, or well done stories?

By: tyrantking

tyrantking — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:38:20 +0000

The first half of the finale was brilliant. BSG ramming the colony is right up there with BSG jumping into New Caprica's atmosphere. However.
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The last hour or so of this finale (much like Harry Potter #7) never actually happened. I just imagined it was that awful. Right?

By: BSG: The Long Goodbye - The Critical Response to “Daybreak” « Cultural Learnings

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 21:57:30 +0000

[...] James Poniewozik from TIME: But underpinning the dramatic fight, and the cat-and-mouse mission to recover Hera from the Colony’s beehive-like tunnels, was a characteristically BSG sense of finality and grit. Just take the logistics of the battle, for one thing: the battlestar crunching headfirst into the Colony was a close-quarters clinch unlike nothing I recall seeing in a previous space battle. It wasn’t some breathtaking, balletic dogfight—it was like a barroom brawl between two spaceships, locked in a deathgrip, determined to scratch and choke and swing broken bottles until one of them could not get up. It would be a gun battle, Adama said, in one of his last, best speeches before a mission: “Then I want [you] to start throwing rocks.” [...]

By: ampressman

ampressman — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 17:23:40 +0000

I quite liked the finale but I was prompted to post to share one bit of insight I haven't seen much discussed elsewhere. On Friday night, while I was hanging out waiting for BSG to start, I decided to watch the final episode of another series that bears Ron Moore's imprint, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

In that finale, Benjamin Cisco -- the emissary -- gets into the middle of a fiery battle and must make a leap of faith (a literal leap in his case) to save humanity. Afterward, he is not seen again by his living human friends, he has crossed over. Seemed rather like the emissary Kara Thrace, no? And as part of the final showdown, the good guys led by Odo and Kiera Nerees convince the top bad guy (the leader of the Dominion) to stop fighting to receive a gift to cure her people and save them from extinction. Sounds kind of like the deal that Caval went for.

And I guess that shows the difference between ST and BSG: in Star Trek, the deal works out and everyone is saved. Not so in BSG.

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:26:46 +0000

Oddly enough, the thing that bugged me most was the religious stuff. Not that I mind that they used it, considering all the mammoth problems they'd have to resolve. And also, considering the genre and fan base, I'd say it's pretty ballsy of them to say, "Yeah, all this insane stuff that we'd have to start using big-bang science to explain things... it's really inexplicable. It's just god." The thing that bugged me, as a Christian, was the pseudoreligion of it. ` But that's a relatively minor complaint relative to the whole series. I'm curious about a few things, like whether we're just supposed to assume Daniel is Kara's father (and not infertile), or if that will be revealed in The Plan... or if that was never intended to be revealed. He really was entirely eradicated, and we don't know anything about him. ` I don't know how I feel about the implication of all of us being part Cylon. I want my projection! ` I was sad to see Starbuck go like she did... I wasn't surprised by D killing herself or Anders getting shot in the neck, because I expected both of them to get killed off so Starbuck and Apollo could live happily ever after. But alas, 'twas not to be. I'm happy with how they did it, but it was a little depressing that the most romantic relationship at the end was between old Adama and dying Roslin (if anyone didn't at least tear up during any of their talks at the end, I'm guessing you're more Cylon than human).