what you gonna do when the flames go up?

[musesfool]

After reading the AV club recaps of the BSG mini and "33," I got nostalgic, and started rewatching, and then I couldn't stop, because it's always so compelling, even knowing how it ends (and my complicated feelings about the end). So I just finished through Resurrection Ship part 2, and honestly, if they'd ended the show there, it'd be a pretty

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[kita0610]

Those were all my issues with BSG too. The G-d thing never bothered me, it was way more than foreshadowed, it was explicitly stated like, five million times. But I can't forgive what they did to Starbuck and seriously, Watchtower is a great song, but I find it way difficult to buy it survived what is essentially eternity.

My favorite favorite favorite was Sharon so her being Eve's mommy pretty much made me handwave everything else.

I loved Papa Adama, man pain and all. Honestly it was the President who started to grate on me by series' end.

[musesfool]

it was way more than foreshadowed, it was explicitly stated like, five million times.

Seriously! Like, I don't understand how people didn't think God was going to figure into it when it's all Six talked about for four seasons.

I loved Papa Adama, man pain and all. Honestly it was the President who started to grate on me by series' end.

I loved him almost until the end, and yeah, I feel like at a certain point, Roslin also started to wear thin also, but both in ways that seemed legit in terms of characterization.

[kita0610]

Yes, they both stayed true to character right til the very end.

After Eight, I loved Chief and his ending made me the saddest, I think.

[musesfool]

Starbuck was my absolute favorite, but I did love Helo and Athena, and Adama and Roslin almost to the end. And I never expected to care so much about Tigh.

[kita0610]

Yes, Tigh was a huge surprise for me too!

Oh, Helo. ♥. But yeah, all the Eights, especially Athena had my whole heart for the whole series.

The only character I could not stand was Baltar. I did not understand the fan love AT ALL.

[musesfool]

Baltar was both hard to watch and entertaining for me, up until he became the leader of his own little Jesus cult and then I just wanted him to go away. (I was going to say I wanted him to die horribly, but I pretty much wanted that all the time.)

[kita0610]

I often wonder if the uproar about the ending had more to do with Baltar and Six living happily ever after (combined with the G-d thing being the key to a Sci Fi series) than finding out nobody really had a plan. (Did anyone actually believe there was a plan?!)

[musesfool]

Could be - there was a lot of nerd rage going around at the time.

I knew there was no full series plan, but I'd hoped they'd had something more coherent in mind for the endgame.

[kita0610]

I actually liked the Big Final Five Reveal thing- that was a way unexpected plot twist and it worked on an emotional level too. The actual ending felt meh in comparison.

[musesfool]

Yeah, a lot of the emotional stuff worked for me, even at the end. But plotwise it was a big mess.