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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[lls_mutant]

sometimes when a lot of people figure out what's going to happen means it was properly set up.

YES. This was my issue with LOST, too. Yes, a few people guessed that the island was Purgatory. That's okay. In a longer series, you're going to have die hard fans that guess. Kara as the first hybrid made complete sense.

I think my biggest issue with the finale isn't even the God did it (like you said, that was set up) or the past, but Lee Adama's Idiotic Slingshot Into The Sun. I really can't believe anyone would agree that this plan was a good idea. You'd have to downgrade tech, sure, but flinging EVERYTHING into the sun? And saying the problem with New Caprica was that they tried to build a city? That was one of the dumbest lines EVER. (If BSG had to clearly be part of our past, Atlantis fit far better than Mitochondrial Eve.)

Also, it always bothered me that people thought that the Cylons had a further plan besides "nuke humanity". I just assumed that what "and they have a plan" meant is that they've become fully sentient. I thought it was pretty clear they didn't have a plan from the beginning :P

[musesfool]

In a longer series, you're going to have die hard fans that guess. Kara as the first hybrid made complete sense.

Exactly! It means people are picking up the clues you're laying down! That is how telling a story works! Not everything has to be a surprise twist. Sigh. A logical completion based on what happened before is really satisfying.

but Lee Adama's Idiotic Slingshot Into The Sun. I really can't believe anyone would agree that this plan was a good idea. You'd have to downgrade tech, sure, but flinging EVERYTHING into the sun? And saying the problem with New Caprica was that they tried to build a city? That was one of the dumbest lines EVER.

Yeah, that was another boneheaded thing to do. Like, so much of the emotional stuff worked for me, but plot-wise it was such a mess.

I think the "and they have a plan" thing got repeated so much that people started expecting it to be real instead of accepting that, much like X-Files, there was no long-term coherent plan beyond "nuking the colonies and chasing the remnants of humanity down". I think the long, long waits between seasons (and halves of seasons) didn't help.