BSG - the end
Aug. 11th, 2009 03:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shapinglightWell, that's that, then. It's no longer possible for anyone to spoiler me for BSG. :breathes a sigh of relief:
Brief (because of ongoing pain in hands) thoughts behind cut. Spoilers for BSG season 4.2 (or season 5, as it's known this side of the Pond) behind cut.
Okay, so I've managed to avoid most spoilers, but seen enough to take on board that a lot of people weren't happy with this ending. Can't say I really understand why, though.
Okay, so I'm not saying it was perfect. In fact, I can see some big, stonking problems with it myself as far as logic goes, plus some troubling undercurrents which I suspect the writers weren't even aware of, which applies to the whole season/half-season, not just the finale. I can also see why, if a person was, say, a huge Starbuck/Apollo 'shipper, they might feel a bit cheated by what happened at the end. However, for the most part, I found the finale very satisfying emotionally. There were characters I would have liked to see more of over the course of the season- Leoben, for instance, though it's cool that ultimately he was right about Kara - and some plot lines seemed a bit pointless - the stuff with Tigh and Caprica 6 and their stillborn baby, especially as Caprica ended up back with Baltar anyway, and it was clear that Tigh's feelings for Ellen had never really wavered. I also hated what happened to Dee. I wanted her to be there right at the end. I think the character deserved that after all she'd been through. Wasn't too keen on the Tori subplot either.
Those things aside, though, there was an awful lot of stuff I liked, including the reappearance of Ghost!Caprica 6 and Ghost!Baltar as rather supercilious 'angels', and the fact that though some beloved characters died and others got a happy ending, there was hanging over everything the sense of a vicious cycle going around and around over millennia on one planet after another. Good old BSG. It can always find the black cloud outside the silver lining.
I also liked that some of the deepest and most enduring romances in the show were between older characters. Whatever you may think of Ellen, it was clear she and Tigh really had something, as did Adama and Roslin (and her death was the only time in the finale when I teared up) and really what can you say about the bromance between Tigh and Adama except, damn that was well done!
Have to admit that I also adored the fact that my favourite version of All Along the Watchtower ended up being the theme song of the series. I don't think there's a better song to evoke the sense of scary desolation eating at the edges of civilisation than that.
So, anyway, thoughts? Opinions? Or if you're all talked out about it now, can you point me towards anything the show writers had to say when the dust had settled? Also, those of you who've seen Caprica, what did you think of it (no spoilers please)? And when is the final BSG movie coming out - the one from the cylons' POV?
Brief (because of ongoing pain in hands) thoughts behind cut. Spoilers for BSG season 4.2 (or season 5, as it's known this side of the Pond) behind cut.
Okay, so I've managed to avoid most spoilers, but seen enough to take on board that a lot of people weren't happy with this ending. Can't say I really understand why, though.
Okay, so I'm not saying it was perfect. In fact, I can see some big, stonking problems with it myself as far as logic goes, plus some troubling undercurrents which I suspect the writers weren't even aware of, which applies to the whole season/half-season, not just the finale. I can also see why, if a person was, say, a huge Starbuck/Apollo 'shipper, they might feel a bit cheated by what happened at the end. However, for the most part, I found the finale very satisfying emotionally. There were characters I would have liked to see more of over the course of the season- Leoben, for instance, though it's cool that ultimately he was right about Kara - and some plot lines seemed a bit pointless - the stuff with Tigh and Caprica 6 and their stillborn baby, especially as Caprica ended up back with Baltar anyway, and it was clear that Tigh's feelings for Ellen had never really wavered. I also hated what happened to Dee. I wanted her to be there right at the end. I think the character deserved that after all she'd been through. Wasn't too keen on the Tori subplot either.
Those things aside, though, there was an awful lot of stuff I liked, including the reappearance of Ghost!Caprica 6 and Ghost!Baltar as rather supercilious 'angels', and the fact that though some beloved characters died and others got a happy ending, there was hanging over everything the sense of a vicious cycle going around and around over millennia on one planet after another. Good old BSG. It can always find the black cloud outside the silver lining.
I also liked that some of the deepest and most enduring romances in the show were between older characters. Whatever you may think of Ellen, it was clear she and Tigh really had something, as did Adama and Roslin (and her death was the only time in the finale when I teared up) and really what can you say about the bromance between Tigh and Adama except, damn that was well done!
Have to admit that I also adored the fact that my favourite version of All Along the Watchtower ended up being the theme song of the series. I don't think there's a better song to evoke the sense of scary desolation eating at the edges of civilisation than that.
So, anyway, thoughts? Opinions? Or if you're all talked out about it now, can you point me towards anything the show writers had to say when the dust had settled? Also, those of you who've seen Caprica, what did you think of it (no spoilers please)? And when is the final BSG movie coming out - the one from the cylons' POV?
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Date: 2009-08-13 11:49 am (UTC)I definitely will if I get the chance.
One thing I liked in was how certain people were headed for certain places on earth and you kinda got an idea of how come certain physical characteristics came to be.
When Tyrol started talking about an island offshore way up north, I did wonder if he meant Britain. Hmm. Yes, I liked that too, even though I think they probably all died before they could pass on their genes.
The show was amazing.
Yes, I agree. The finale didn't make me cry, but there've been many times along the way when the show has deeply moved me. I'll adore Starbuck and Dee forever.