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Well, I managed to find a site that had the last episode on it. Overall, I liked the way things wrapped up.
I just finished watching the finale.
I laughed, I cried. Overall, it was a fitting end.
I never really liked the show as a whole. I was born in time to watch the original series with Lorne Greene. There were a lot of episodes that didn't really live up to the ideals I got from the classic show. I know this show could never be that show, but maybe it didn't have to be. In time, I grew to like the show.
The final season pretty much redeemed the entire show for me. It had that element of humanity, the best parts of us, and they overshadowed the pettiness that frequently inhabited the show. The flashbacks were the best because we got to see the characters develop.
I am sad to see it end.
I laughed, I cried. Overall, it was a fitting end.
I never really liked the show as a whole. I was born in time to watch the original series with Lorne Greene. There were a lot of episodes that didn't really live up to the ideals I got from the classic show. I know this show could never be that show, but maybe it didn't have to be. In time, I grew to like the show.
The final season pretty much redeemed the entire show for me. It had that element of humanity, the best parts of us, and they overshadowed the pettiness that frequently inhabited the show. The flashbacks were the best because we got to see the characters develop.
I am sad to see it end.
Haha, they really did pick the obvious ending. Funny stuff.
Where do they get these writers from? Do they just pick them up off the street?
Where do they get these writers from? Do they just pick them up off the street?
Smasharoo wrote:
The Cylon civil war becomes a war between the "mechanical" cylons, the raiders, the centurions, etc. vs the humanoid ones. The humanoid ones start to lose, and eventually are forced to ally with the actual humans. Together they destroy the mechanical ones with some lame deus-ex machina "secret" and all find Earth together, so that the "deep" ending of the lame story arc is that you and I are all descended from a mix of human and machines.
The end.
Should have been obvious. Galactica writers do the obvious thing, because it's what the audience wants.
Close, given the comments given on forums, it's also not quite what the audience wants.
is it to soon to start watching them over again ....
sirtebian wrote:
is it to soon to start watching them over again ....
About two months too early, then the dvd box for the final season is out. Rather, I'm waiting till that time before watching it all again.
I suppose that overall with the ending I was pleased with how they wrapped things up. I only had a few real gripes. A civilization is not going to throw away all their technology and go back to the stone age. Moreover, since it's assumed that Hera was the "mitochondrial Eve", you have to assume that the rest of them died out without procreating even though it was stated they were fully compatible with our ancestors. Also, who was God?
Really though, you can't fault the writers for how they handled the whole thing. They tackled the serious issues each and every week, brining up modern day issues and trying to deal with them the best they could (the UN even had a conference using BSG for references to current on-going problems in the world).
In the end many viewers who disliked the ending (there were plenty on the official forums) didn't take into consideration that the writers simply could not answer the issues that even organizations like the UN can not answer today. They did the best they could in the given situation, and I applaud them for a great series.
Really though, you can't fault the writers for how they handled the whole thing. They tackled the serious issues each and every week, brining up modern day issues and trying to deal with them the best they could (the UN even had a conference using BSG for references to current on-going problems in the world).
In the end many viewers who disliked the ending (there were plenty on the official forums) didn't take into consideration that the writers simply could not answer the issues that even organizations like the UN can not answer today. They did the best they could in the given situation, and I applaud them for a great series.
UnknownSoldier wrote:
A civilization is not going to throw away all their technology and go back to the stone age. Moreover, since it's assumed that Hera was the "mitochondrial Eve", you have to assume that the rest of them died out without procreating even though it was stated they were fully compatible with our ancestors. Also, who was God?
Actually, Hera wasn't the only ancestor, even if she's portrayed as the mitochondrial Eve. That only means that she's the oldest female in a continuous line of women, nothing more. All the others can have had children too, just not a continuing line of daughters. Any other can very well have his genes running around a 150000 years later too.
And apparently primitivism is not all that unlikely to happen.
Well I mean we're talking about a civilization that was most likely well advanced past the stage of food cultivation that we have here on Earth. While there might have been a few people among them (such as Baltar) who knew how to start from scratch in growing crops, there couldn't have been that many; especially given they were split up into even smaller populations and scattered around the world.
On the same note, shouldn't there have been evidence of this and what technology they did bring with them (the ships they used to transport people to the planet). I mean you can't really chuck this all up to the ice age that would come later. Human populations in the past started to grow exponentially once they advanced beyond the hunter-gatherer stage to, assumeably, what this civilization would have been starting out at with collective communities.
Again, kudos to the writers for doing what they could given the enormity of what they had to deal with in the finale. I just feel that if you start examining it rather closely, you see all these holes. Well... maybe we'll get some more answers in Caprica and the movie coming out (unlikely considering neither approaches the end, but I'll still look forward to it).
Edited, Apr 16th 2009 1:06am by UnknownSoldier
On the same note, shouldn't there have been evidence of this and what technology they did bring with them (the ships they used to transport people to the planet). I mean you can't really chuck this all up to the ice age that would come later. Human populations in the past started to grow exponentially once they advanced beyond the hunter-gatherer stage to, assumeably, what this civilization would have been starting out at with collective communities.
Again, kudos to the writers for doing what they could given the enormity of what they had to deal with in the finale. I just feel that if you start examining it rather closely, you see all these holes. Well... maybe we'll get some more answers in Caprica and the movie coming out (unlikely considering neither approaches the end, but I'll still look forward to it).
Edited, Apr 16th 2009 1:06am by UnknownSoldier
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