And so ends an Era..Battlestar Galactica

This friday hallmarks the end of Battestar Galactica, though the series ends, the memory of battlestar galactica will live on, in spin offs, and other tv movie shows i guess..


Thought that the series finale episode deserves its own seperate thread, instead of cluttering the BSG thread, and eventually being forgotten and piled.


So heres to Battlestar Galactica, 4 years of pureman sauce show, drama, religion, politics, sex, stuff blowing up, violence, dark story line, realism and more damn stuff blowing up, all in one show.



Discussion for this weeks episode would be greatly appreciated, and spolier tags would be nice too...*cries*

This is the real Battlestar Galactica

Originally Posted by Pallantides

This is the real Battlestar Galactica

Thanks for ruining the thread lol

Use spoilers! I won't see the last episode till tomorrow at the earliest!

That was... really good.

RIP BSG. I you forever.

I won't be able to see it until later today, so please tell me, in the end, do I get Starbuck, or am I forced to live the rest of my life with my right hand in a flight suit and a blond wig?

RIP indeed. But I felt this last season minus the mutiny was awful......

Holy crap

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Galactica...but marines and centurions working together...brings a tear to my eye

I spy with my little eye, and what do i see?

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earth

Great series but horrible finale.

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Why would all the humans all agree to give up technology and live as primitives. Moore ruined a chance to create a spinoff.

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Are guys grossed out by pubic hair

they abandoned technology to "break the cycle"

Stupid reason. Cant they see they already broke the cycle by destroying the enemy and freeing the cylons.
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MARGOSHA_

Bagh, doesn't matter, what matters is, we now know, Galactica, despite, being shot, nuked, ftl'ed damaged, and ramming, Galactica is one of those ships that just won't die....




Though, they should've just kept the old girl instead of piloting to the sun and all.....nice to see RDM play a little role in the end lol

So it's finally over.

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1) The gigantic battle scene they've been building up to was every bit as freaking sweet as would be expected.

2) The ending was feeble. a) The writers truly did give up and decide not to bother trying to explain all the mysteries of the show, b) And so they made the characters all agree to give up as well.

a) The return-to-life of Starbuck; a Bob Dylan song being heard by the Five and guiding them to a new inhabitable planet; ancient written prophecies leading two peoples together; invisible beings visiting Baltar and Caprica-Six, etc., etc..."You've been waiting for an explanation all this time? Too bad, losers, because you aren't getting one. The answer is 'God did it.' So you, viewers. We've been playing you for 4 seasons. How does it feel to be so stupid, dumb-assed so-called 'fans'? You could have spent all those viewing-hours learning to speak another language. You sicken me."

b) The characters: "I know - we've been working to salvage our civilisation from the brink of annihilation for years now and have had countless close calls. Now let's just dismantle everything we've worked for and live as tribal primitives. And everyone will agree with this insane course of action, even though it's perfectly obvious that they will change their minds the instant just one person they care about contracts a medical condition that can't be cured with tribal witch-doctoring, or when their young and mothers both start dying in child-birth at natural levels, or when this gorgeous sunshine passes and we can't keep ourselves warm in Winter/Monsoon-season/whatever. And because we've all given up, it's fine for Adama and Tyrol to go die alone as hermits on a hill somewhere. And Cavill, who fears death above all else, will commit suicide. And Anders will commit suicide too, as part of the process of abandoning all the technology they need to live as anything more than pathetic savages, and that their descendants need to escape thousands of years of warfare, slavery, average lifespans of 30 years, etc. etc. Pathetic.

Altogether, very disappointing indeed.

Originally Posted by Chaigidel

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they abandoned technology to "break the cycle"

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And so abandoned all of the lessons about humans and machines living together that they'd just spend years fighting and struggling to learn. All that effort and struggle, for which lives were expended, tossed away like so much crap.

Break the cycle? They broke nothing. Because, as they must have known if they had even an ounce of reason, the tribals they were going to merge with would simply develop their own civilisation in future.

The only thing they "broke" was the hopes for a worthwhile life of their children, and their childrens' children for countless thousands of years.

If I actually were the distant descendant of these give-up do-nothings, I would be sickened.

Originally Posted by MathiasOfAthens

Great series but horrible finale.

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Why would all the humans all agree to give up technology and live as primitives. Moore ruined a chance to create a spinoff.

There's going to be a spinoff - it's going to be a prequel called Caprica and will be set in Colonial civilisation before the war.

There's going to be a spinoff - it's going to be a prequel called Caprica and will be set in Colonial civilisation before the war.

And the preview made it look like a miserable soap. :/

yeah say goodbye to kickass space combat for at least a few years

So tell me wtf was the point to the rescue of the little girl????? Actualy i didnt understand most of the final five crap.

the little girl was the mother of the human race, on modern earth--- at least thats how they spun it.

pureblood humans and cylons went extinct.

Well, I thought the build-up was excellent (especially the final battle), but the ending was cheesy and a bit of a let down, especially the use of stock footage. Made it look cheap.

The battle was basically a solid hour of orgasmic awesomeness.

The ending was a bit of a letdown, I think they should not have had the part with Six and Baltar's "angel forms" talking, it was a bit off. There are two ways I would have done the ending, if they wanted to clarify the "all this has happened before, and will happen again":
-Instead of showing all the robot footage and stuff, it should have just ended on the shot of the "advances in robot technology"
-Or: it would go to the "150,000 years later" part, zoomed in on New York. Then it would slowly do a zoom-out to space shot, with the final shot being the camera zooming past a Cylon basestar approaching Earth, and then cut to black.