1) I had thought it was likely -- though I did very much like the notion that it was a giant trick, and that they'd populate somewhere, but not the "Earth" of prophecy; for which I have to give them credit.
2) This, I think, is one of the places where SFnal technobabble might have been a good idea; because "angels" is such a loaded word, and in the case of the BSG finale, an overloaded one -- we had, in effect, two *very* different things referred to as "angels" -- the "head" characters, and Kara, who didn't act in any way similarly. For one, their certainty and non-physicality were the very things that made them significant (well, until Head Six picked up Baltar briefly "physically"), while for Kara the defining characteristics were confusion and unexpected physicality.
Call them "emissaries" and "guides" and it might have at least gotten a few people's dander less far up. ;)
3) I was going to be interested in your take on this. We can discuss it in more detail, but I freely admit that that one was one of my buttons that it pushed, rather than a button it had.
4) This, along with #2, were some of the big religious things that caused my reaction you disagreed with in #3.
I don't know if every vision came true, but they all came darned close; and whatever didn't was rather of the "Be Careful What You Wish For" variety -- like finding Earth, just like the prophecy said, but its' radioactive *rimshot.
5) We are in complete agreement. I will say that this show very much passes Steven's Remake/Cover test -- it's got to be sufficiently different from the original (and not just "Oooh! Better CGI!") and ideally different in interesting ways.
6) I think the old-style centurions were there because the Cylon Colony still had some from the first Cylon War; they weren't out with the basestars, but the Old Grampa Veteran Centurions got out of their VHW (veterans of human wars) halls and prepared to fight.
7) Aww, but then we could have had the great line..."No! Don't be like them...I mean her...I mean you...I mean...oh, go ahead and shoot."
7a) I think Boomer was the only character we'd ever sympathized with who came into the finale healthy and died during it. Roslin, we knew was going to die soon, and Anders was already GalacticaHybridAndersNeverComingBack.
8) *snif* Me too. Then again, I'm a huge fan of museum warships, and memorial ships.
9) I think at 150,000 years, they're Homo Sapiens, or at least could be.
10) I believe it was one of the commenters at io9.com who asserted that it was fear of Lee Adama's hair that made people do that. I completely agree with you on this, but I think they'd written themselves somewhat into a corner; if they'd kept the technology, they'd be walking straight into "Aliens from Space gave us all this technology" Van Daniken land, which would have been a different way to give us a Really Bad Ending.
What they *should* have done, IMHO, was not tried to fit the Final Cylon Battle and the Fate of Humanity into one episode -- end the penultimate episode with the fleet orbiting Earth, and then show some of the members of the fleet going off to Join the Natives, some holing up on Earth with the tech, staying where they are (and eventually dying out) and some, perhaps, staying on shipboard even. But take an episode to work out the fate of humanity, not the tail-end of a 2-hour finale.
2) This, I think, is one of the places where SFnal technobabble might have been a good idea; because "angels" is such a loaded word, and in the case of the BSG finale, an overloaded one -- we had, in effect, two *very* different things referred to as "angels" -- the "head" characters, and Kara, who didn't act in any way similarly. For one, their certainty and non-physicality were the very things that made them significant (well, until Head Six picked up Baltar briefly "physically"), while for Kara the defining characteristics were confusion and unexpected physicality.
Call them "emissaries" and "guides" and it might have at least gotten a few people's dander less far up. ;)
3) I was going to be interested in your take on this. We can discuss it in more detail, but I freely admit that that one was one of my buttons that it pushed, rather than a button it had.
4) This, along with #2, were some of the big religious things that caused my reaction you disagreed with in #3.
I don't know if every vision came true, but they all came darned close; and whatever didn't was rather of the "Be Careful What You Wish For" variety -- like finding Earth, just like the prophecy said, but its' radioactive *rimshot.
5) We are in complete agreement. I will say that this show very much passes Steven's Remake/Cover test -- it's got to be sufficiently different from the original (and not just "Oooh! Better CGI!") and ideally different in interesting ways.
6) I think the old-style centurions were there because the Cylon Colony still had some from the first Cylon War; they weren't out with the basestars, but the Old Grampa Veteran Centurions got out of their VHW (veterans of human wars) halls and prepared to fight.
7) Aww, but then we could have had the great line..."No! Don't be like them...I mean her...I mean you...I mean...oh, go ahead and shoot."
7a) I think Boomer was the only character we'd ever sympathized with who came into the finale healthy and died during it. Roslin, we knew was going to die soon, and Anders was already GalacticaHybridAndersNeverComingBack.
8) *snif* Me too. Then again, I'm a huge fan of museum warships, and memorial ships.
9) I think at 150,000 years, they're Homo Sapiens, or at least could be.
10) I believe it was one of the commenters at io9.com who asserted that it was fear of Lee Adama's hair that made people do that. I completely agree with you on this, but I think they'd written themselves somewhat into a corner; if they'd kept the technology, they'd be walking straight into "Aliens from Space gave us all this technology" Van Daniken land, which would have been a different way to give us a Really Bad Ending.
What they *should* have done, IMHO, was not tried to fit the Final Cylon Battle and the Fate of Humanity into one episode -- end the penultimate episode with the fleet orbiting Earth, and then show some of the members of the fleet going off to Join the Natives, some holing up on Earth with the tech, staying where they are (and eventually dying out) and some, perhaps, staying on shipboard even. But take an episode to work out the fate of humanity, not the tail-end of a 2-hour finale.
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