Battlestar Galactica finale! WOW

[Hector]

there you go....it looked like Africa in some parts but it was definately Australia where they first landed. those were aborigines walking in the high grass.

all in all, i liked the ending....i just have to watch it another time or two to get all the nuances.

I didn't know Australia had gazelles.

[CaptainTrenchcoat]

Just watched it yesterday via itunes. Loved it. I am really going to miss these characters.

[Nostalgiabuff]

there you go....it looked like Africa in some parts but it was definately Australia where they first landed. those were aborigines walking in the high grass.

all in all, i liked the ending....i just have to watch it another time or two to get all the nuances.

[samurainoir]

Here is a quote from the book "The Carbon Age" by Eric Roston:

"...mitochondria (it is the engine of all our cells)...their
DNA(mitochondria -yeah have their own DNA) descends directly from the
mother, which she took from her mother, and so on.

In the 1980s, scientists at the University of California-Berkeley studied
mtDNA...concluded that every human being on the planet descended from an
African woman who lived more than 150,000 years ago, our common Earth
mother, whom they dubbed Mitochondrial Eve."

[spotter]

so its finally done

I liked the ending much better than a lot of shows I have followed ( ie stargate, quantum leap ) as it did close the story, not sure I like the crew spread to the four winds though

I agree with those that Chief went to Iceland or greenland

I liked the fact that starbuck just faded away

I LOVED THE TOASTERS from Razor back and Kicking A! ( i actually wanted them to revolt against Dean Stockwell and start their own all cylon war)

would have like to see Deanna one last time since we saw all the other cylons though.

Won't go out of my way to watch the new show but it is always available on Hulu

OUT

[tay666]

so I'm alone in being underwhelmed by the end?

So far, it looks like just you and me.

They could have cut out all the flashbacks and cut this whole thing down to an hour.

Heck, the same could be said for this entire last half season.
Could have been cut in half if they dropped all the useless crap they padded out the eps with.

At this point, I am just glad it is over.
IT had such great promise in the begining, but along the way they turned it into a soap opera instead of a scifi show.

[samurainoir]

I really liked the way Battlestar Galactica ended. They managed to close off the character arcs in a very satisfying manner (if you do make that leap of faith that is required of the viewer). Although Galactica did meander for a while, I'm not sure Lost can end as cleanly given all the random threads that were introduced and jettisoned from that series over the years.

Galactica probably could have ended the exact same way a year earlier (before they slashed their production budget), but given the fact that they did finally give us the Big Explosions and Robot Fights that drove the stories and characters to a worthy finale, I would say the journey was a good one for me as a viewer.

Hopefully the upcoming Cylon movie will make up for a Cylon Civil War that they didn't actually show, but only talked about in laborious cross-dissolved scene after scene on the Cylon Basestar.

I'm on board for Caprica.

BTW, anyone else get a kick out of the fact that this ending was a nod to the "Chariot of the Gods" roots of the original 70's series? I guess it also kind of echoes the ending to the original Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy TV series (and the novel that inspired it).

[Hector]

I picture those Cylons and that Base ship coming back 150,000 years later with an Armada...and engaging Earth's forces...coming soon.

[megoscott]

I have gotten a little impatient with the show in the last season as they kept wandering off into the weeds and wasting time. But the ending was handled really well for the most part. Right up to the end I was saying, "Okay, but I still don't get why Hera is so Important" and then they revealed the 150,000 year leap. Very nice.

The fist fights between the old school Centurions and the Red stripes were awesome.

Great show. Looks like they have a 2 hour Cylon movie coming this fall and then Caprica looks like it has next to nothing to do with them.

I'm so obsessed with LOST right now nothing else matters.

[johnmiic]

I have not been a fan of this new show but have to say that the ending was quite good. All loose ends were not exactly tied up neatly but realistically-or as realistically as can be for a sci-fi series. I regret the loss of the fleet, the technology and that they settled so far back in time any traces of them being so advanced would be lost to the ages but like everything else they had faith that humanity would re-discoiver those things if they needed it.

[Hector]

Ya, and what happened with him and the kid he was left. Even though biologically it wasn't his I'd still be attached. I think he was hoping to find some Viking or Celtic chicks there.

Yeah...he probably wanted some fresh meat.

[txteach]

Ya, and what happened with him and the kid he was left. Even though biologically it wasn't his I'd still be attached. I think he was hoping to find some Viking or Celtic chicks there.

[Hector]

I LOVED the ending! I like how the Cheif went to England/Ireland to be alone. I knew the English were part Cylon! Look at Boy George!

Yeah...but he went there without any chicks?

Come on now...what a dweeb move from the Chief, lol.

[Hector]

Ok so if anyone who hasn't watched it yet is reading this thread they deserve to have it spoiled.



I actually saw this thread posted last night while I was taping it and thought txteach had caught an east coast feed or something. haha, so I avoided it until today.
I thought it was great. I am so glad they did find Earth and I was right...the first Earth wasn't our Earth after all. It all still fits together. They were doomed to repeat their past mistakes over and over.
I guess the prophecy wasn't 100% accurate as the "dying leader" did survive to see them reach the promised land. I didn't realize they had been so far in the past though: 150,000 years!
I was expecting to see them start building the pyramids or something, LOL.
I like jwybleirs idea of them founding Atlantis as well. (That would've been cool too but that's going to be the revealed secret of LOST so they can't use that. LOL, JK, I have no idea where LOST will end up.)
Whether the Atlantis mention was a conscious reference or not; it is interesting to note the original opening narration from the original series:




So Kara was an angel since disappearing in her Viper? She just didn't know it. I don't see the problem with the blood test. I assumed he used existing data or stored supplies to match the dogtag sample. Even if he did draw blood from the angel Kara, why wouldn't she be identical? If she was an angel then her creator certainly would have no problem re-creating her.
So the Six & Baltar were also angels but only appeared to their respective charges all this time? Interesting.
Ok, I'll admit it.. a few tears welled up at some parts but it was a great finale and I was so ready to be disappointed and/or still left with lingering questions.
I was almost hoping to see one of the robots they showed at the end have a red 'eye' scan across it's face!
I would assume they did something to destroy the Raptors, etc that they didn't fly into the sun, plus Earth is a HUGE planet so who's to say that even if they did just bury them or blow them up that the pieces couldn't still just be undiscovered?
The only parts I didn't care for were the flashbacks to Caprica. They seemed to distract from what was going on rather than complement them.
Old-school Cylon Centurions!!!! COOL!!
Galen giving that beyotch who killed Callie her just rewards! COOL!
The theme from the original BSG playing while the fleet went into the sun. COOL!!
Once again, thanks to the producers for coming through and ending the series as promised. I only wish the original could've had the same reward. They're still out there....somewhere...a ragtag, fugitive fleet, on a lonely quest—for a shining planet known as Earth! (No, Galactica 1980 doesn't count!)
I think I may watch it once more as well.

Rich

You said it all, brother.

[Hector]

Loved seeing the classic cylons again and using the theme at the end was very nice.

Yes...both nice touches.