Finally with watching the end of Battlestar. Now that no one cares anymore.
Well, I don't think I'm going as crazy as most others out there, either in the positive or the negative direction. There weren't any resolutions I was completely unhappy about, I just thought the execution suffered from some silly problems at times.
For example: The dialogue between Cavil, a Simon, and a Doral regarding Hera? Totally canned and cheesy, and delivered that way too. It was the sort of thing where the quality was not what I was used to, and seemed unnecessarily bad.
Cavil's suicide? I can sort of understand that he knew the jig was up, but it was in the middle of a very confusing sequence and it would have helped to have had something more obvious that he was reacting to - that Tory's death meant the end of resurrection, or that he had lost his one bargainning chip.
I loved most of the first hour, it was absolutely spectacular. The second hour dragged. I wish it hadn't been organized as an hour-long epilogue, because maintaining some of the dramatic tension would have been helpful.
The low point for me was probably the stripclub scenes. They didn't tell me anything insightful about the characters and I found them quite disheartening. I wish I could go back in time to the moment before I watched Adama vomit all over himself, because that may have killed my last shred of respect for him. I generally thought of the character as someone whose drinking was problemmatic, but who kept himself together for a greater cause, and had been doing so all his life. That was the big difference between him and Tigh early on - that Adama was living for some cause and had some (maybe too much) self-control. To see him so self-destructive before the series even started didn't seem very true to his character, except to show that he was conflicted over leaving the military which was pretty obvious from the miniseries.
I loved the Roslin/Cottle interaction and everything about the final arc she was given, although I'm perturbed by the sexual association with her accepting Adar's invitation. She was given a good send-off, got to finally be useful and vital again, and saw some nice flamingoes. What more could a girl wish for?
I guess I just don't need all that much closure. I can see how, after everything the fleet went through, some people would want to give up their ships or to go off on their own. But I'm still mulling it over
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