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Battlestar Galactica’s Series Finale
[Warning: contains spoilers for the Battlestar Galactica series finale] After five years, Battlestar Galactica finally brought itself to a close with a finale that did not disappoint. In the IEET’s poll, you were divided between whether the series was biocon or transhumanist, or whether we should wait for the end to determine its biopolitics. The final episode had both bioconservative and more technoprogressive elements, but after two hours it was quite refreshing to see some of our modern biopolitical issues quite explicitly addressed in the final five minutes.
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Posted by bryant on 03/21 at 09:51 PM
I was also touched by the very light background playing of the original series theme music as the fleet was guided into the sun. It was one those series that ended-well.
Posted by Scott Colvin on 03/21 at 10:47 PM
Very good review!
I too was very pleased with the finale. I will greatly miss Battlestar Galactica every Friday..
Posted by Athena Andreadis on 03/21 at 10:57 PM
May the Lords of Kobol be my witnesses, I really wanted to like this show. But its utter contempt for the intelligence of its audience was infuriating. Many critics have analyzed the series, from Salon to Strange Horizons, but I will probably say a few words in a bit.
Athena Andreadis
Posted by HowManoid on 03/22 at 02:25 AM
I've been a huge fan of the new BSG, literally not missing an episode. I wish I'd never watched the finale last night as now I'm stuck with my final memory of the series being a negative one. I've been trying to put my finger on what exactly it was about the show that turned me off so badly but I can't. I think it's a combination of many things that add up to create a very negative emotional response. Things like - Seeing Laura die on screen (really could have done without that!); Bill flying off never to return to Lee; 6 & Baltar appearing 150,000 years in the future; Kara just disappearing after all the build up about her origins; The preaching & preaching & preaching about "god" and "angels" - YUCK!; Flying the fleet into the Sun, and on and on. It was a real downer.
Posted by Pelle on 03/22 at 06:41 AM
The best show on this Earth finally made it to the home ground.It will be a great loss but then again i could see these episodes for many years to come over and over again.If only every SF show was like this one.
Posted by Miss Silver on 03/22 at 07:56 AM
What the frack is Starbuck and why did Adama leave his son to go live alone (when he knew Roslin was about to die anyway?!)
That episode left a hole in my heart. So many unanswerd questions.
Who is Daniel?
Posted by MrSatyre on 03/22 at 11:11 AM
They should have stopped just before Season 3 wrapped. The writers and Moore let the entire plot get way out of hand. The Final Five rock music trigger, the reintroduction of the Ellen character and everything else which comprised Season 4 was just ludicrous.
While the Series Finale had several noteworthy sequences, the all too pat "Let's take a leap of faith" reconciliation and then "It's a trap shootout were just too entirely predictable and improbable and evinced a sharp insight into the minds of the writers, and that they clearly had no idea how to fill that space.
Furthermore, if any of us lived through a nuclear holocaust, survived on bare minimum essentials for 4 years in cramped and crowded ship, do you really believe that at the first truly nice port of call we'd all agree to go crap in the woods and live under the stars and wear animal skins? Heeeeellllll no. Lee Adama would have been tossed off the nearest cliff.
The flash forward to the future was also completely unnecessary unless the writers assumed we were all too stupid to put the implications together and realize they were our distant ancestors.
Posted by Roland Buck on 04/10 at 02:19 AM
The ending with humans being decended from both the original colony humans and the cylons was great. And it made sense out of the obsession with protecting the girl.
Replacing the original Earth with our Earth solved the problem of the fact that the original Earth had become unlivable.
The humans and the cylons who had joined them giving up modern technology was, of course, totally implausible, but was needed for the story line and therefore acceptable.
There were, unfortunately, loose ends. Who Starbuck actually was, was never explained. And Daniel was introduced and then left out. Clearly he was supposed to play some kind of role and they ran out of time.
Posted by jamie hargreaves on 04/12 at 09:31 PM
There has been a lot of comments on net about Starbuck not being explained, but to me it was very clear that she was some kind of angel who was unaware of her own identity. She even calls herself an angel in the last episode, so very odd for people to say that it wasn't explained.
Obviously what an angel actually is, is not detailed, since we can't expect ron moore to spend the last episode explaining the meaning of 'god'. The point is that there is a higher life form and that starbuck was some sort of agent of this being. Some things you just have to accept.
Posted by Sevenfold Exurbanite on 04/15 at 04:39 PM
I am of mixed opinion about the finale.
Here's what I liked:
- It provided closure. It wrapped up a number of the questions provided by the series itself and nicely integrated the story into what facts we know about human evolution.
- It was, more or less, a happy ending after a long struggle for these survivalists and rebel Cylons ... not that I'm into exclusively happy endings.
- We knew Roslin was about to die but she lived long enough to see the "promised land." That added a bitter-sweet element to the finale.
Here's what I didn't like:
- Starbuck unexplained: What exactly was she when she came back? How did she actually make it to the original Earth and die there during its nuclear holocaust?
- Too many religious overtones even though it was more agnostic in it's approach.
- To abandon the technology, fly the ships into the Sun, and join the natives in animal skins was implausible (but provided part of the closure to the story line).
- Bill Adama leaving to never see his son was, again, implausible.
- The flash-forward to the present at the very end was more anti-technology in my opinion than progressive.
Ultimately, I would have changed final season if I had *my way* but it wasn't bad as far as ending go.
Posted by Brandon on 05/01 at 10:45 AM
I left this show when it went to hell at the end of season 3.
I'm glad some people could stand the unholy amount of semi-religious mumbo jumbo.
Posted by Jed on 07/01 at 10:17 AM
I watched the caprica pilot ~ didn't watch the whole BSG series ~
mainly the pilots ~ thought caprica would help w/ what I seen as, gapping holes in the new "take" ~
didn't understand matriarchal "zoe" logic ~ I suppose it's not relatable ~
mayb it's the queen mary of bots ~ read moore was a lapse catholic~
I think we've seen the blantant, opportunists religionists, on Utube & etc ~ does any1 know of any1 like zoe? ~
Religionists are normally theologically shallow, hypocritical, stress self & deity worship ~
I miss the daddy rich dazs ~
The dudes who produced the caprica pilot, during the commentaries, didn't seem to give a rat's a#s about the religious dialogue ~
~ for the most pt ~ it's a well crafted show ~ caprica ~
~ the two mains were good ~ esp. Mr. "la bamba" morales ~ dam he's versatile ~
even though the logic can seem off-beat ~
~ If moore-savvy fans can better explain the script ~ feel free to do so ~
Posted by Bender on 04/20 at 03:49 PM
LOVED THE ENDING! I thought the whole series was great, in fact. Great review too 
Posted by Sebastian on 05/10 at 01:22 PM
... i see alot of people complaining on the ending that they didn't explain the thing with kara and daniel arguing that the producers were out of time. The thing is it could have lasted like three or fours seasons longer to explain it all but it would have become stale and crappy so i say they did the right thing ending it at just season 4 and creating a new series that would explain it all. It's success it guarantied by the high ratings of Battlestar.
Posted by Nathan on 05/12 at 03:28 AM
Maybe Daniel was that piano player that was with Kara. He was a ghost/angel, and it was never really explained who or what he was/
Posted by CygnusX1 on 05/12 at 02:42 PM
@ Nathan.. could be?
Yet Kara was not, (or no longer?) mortal nor a Cylon - And the Piano player served as an analogy of her father, (and messenger before he disappeared), for the purpose of Kara to realise the encrypted musical code - that lead them finally to (New)Earth where ultimately their purity of species was doomed as they were sure to inter-breed - Thus Kara was "the harbinger of death"?
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