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Final fraking BSG.

Posted by CelticBear on March 23rd, 2009

The more I think about it, the more I really dislike the final Battlestar Galactica episode. It had OK moments, but in general, it was a slap-together, haphazard, poorly thought-out, seat-of-the-pants, plot-hole riddled, bad ending to one of the greatest scifi shows of all TV/movie history. One of the best TV shows evah.

The apparent fact that they must have been just making it up as they went along, and had no idea how they were going to revolve anything until like the week before shooting the episode, seems painfully obvious.

So much of it didn’t make any sense, and most of the rest of it strains credulity. I wanted to like it so bad, because of how the series has been in general…. For example, the episodes with the final appearances of Gaiden and Dee were simply, utterly amazing. *sigh*

I miss BSG.

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  • Thanks for commenting! :)
    I'd like to address it, but will have to wait til after work...
  • Funny you should have that reaction. I actually predicted that ending sometime in the second season -- it struck me as the only logical way to go.

    WARNING - SPOILERS!

    The ship had to find Earth; you really couldn't have a satisfying ending without that. It could be Earth in the past, the present, or the future. Present is out; that's [shudder] Galactica 1980. So a future Earth? With people who spoke English? Nah.

    Back around 100,000 to 150,000 years ago, modern humans suddenly appeared on the scene, displaying Cro-Magnon man (I think it was Cro-Mag) and quickly taking over the world. We've got clues to this "great leap forward," and we're certainly related to Cro-Mags, but it was a sudden change.

    In fact, James P. Hogan's book "Inherit the Stars" has the same ending, sort of. A 50,000-year old man is found on the moon, wearing a spacesuit. Turns out -- many pages later -- that his people came to Earth after their homeworld (between Mars and Jupiter) was destroyed. They didn't have a lot of supplies, but they were quickly able to spread and take over the planet from the indigenous cavemen, eventually becoming us.

    In "Inherit the Stars," Cro-Mags had been taken from Earth by residents of the 5th planet, where they had evolved into modern humans. Those humans were the ones to return to Earth and eventually take it over. That's how Hogan solved the issue of parallel evolution; there wasn't any.

    Galactica copped out in that sense, throwing in the idea of God (or whatever -- "It doesn't like being called that").

    I had figured that "The Gods" had taken primitive humans from *our* Earth to Kobol 150,000 years ago, those humans had eventually left Kobol for the Colonies, yada yada yada, and Galactica would return them to Earth to repopulate it 50,000 years in our past. Full circle.

    Not quite, but the general idea was there, and I like how it fit in with real history.

    (At the end of "Inherit the Stars," an archaeologist digs up a 50,000-year-old wristwatch, but tosses it away because it's *obviously* not an artifact. I had thought that Roslin's glasses were going to serve the same purpose. [shrug])

    Bottom line, I don't think it was rushed. I think that ending -- or something similar -- was planned all along.
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