stop. don't. come back.
I, uh, finally watched the last half-season of BSG (HAHA, YEAH), and yesterday finished the finale.
Oddly enough, for as much as i totally hated the last season, and really pretty much the series in general post-season 2, i didn't entirely despise the finale. Or at least the end of it; the rest of it was maybe only slightly above average for the final season's standard of quality, but i mostly liked the end. I think probably because it was all character goodbyes, and character goodbyes get me EVERY TIME. I couldn't help but get teary-eyed. And there was so much prettiness in green fields under blue sky! IT WAS REALLY PRETTY. Which is especially surprising and delightful because BSG stopped being pretty like a century ago!
I was spoiled about LOL GOD DID IT and LOL KARA DISAPPEARS, so those things were expectedly lame. But oh man Kara and Lee saying goodbye to Adama and Roslin, that shit stabbed me right in the heart. Mom and Dad and the kids. ;________; The fact that Roslin finally died is so sad, which seems a bit silly given that she'd been dying since the very first episode. I loved Leeeeeeeeeee and his little boy excitement about wanting to go adventuring! LEEEEEEEEEEE. Too bad the love of your life is gone forever! I stopped caring so long ago that i feel like i can't get too worked up about how awful that is, so all i can really muster is... sadness. Just a whole lot of sadness.
Okay so Kara was an ~*~*~ANGEL~*~*~, but in my mind it was only the second Kara that was an angel. Somehow it makes more sense to me that she was an actual person who really did die in season 3, and the Kara that returned was an angel, but she didn't know it until her mission was complete. Ugh, i guess, i don't know, it's all dumb. I MISS BADASS CIGAR-SMOKING PILOT KARA.
Gaius wanting to start a farm got me choked up. Gaius Baltar with real human emotions!
Doc Cottle! :*)
I loved seeing baby Kara and Lee meeting for the first time, with Lee quiet and solemn and Kara loud and boisterous (THOSE TWO!), and later Lee spouting off about democracy! LEEEEEEE. I also loved seeing him with short hair again, because the long hair in present time just was not working for him at all (except for on Earth, i didn't mind it there). But i found it absolutely ridiculous that they almost had drunken sex upon THEIR FIRST MEETING, with Zak RIGHT THERE, cause i mean... whattttt. ¬__¬ Those were flashbacks, meaning they can be whenever the hell you want them to be, meaning you could have shown snippets from a larger span of time without such an unnaturally fast progression of their relationship in just a few hours.
I was super confused about them finding Earth and it being habitable, when duuuuhhhh they found Earth mid-season and it was destroyed! It took me a while to realize that the original Earth wasn't OUR Earth, and then Adama helpfully spelled it out. So i guess that was a pretty effective "gotcha!", that the Earth they were searching for all along wasn't the Earth we thought it was. Somehow i even kind of liked the present-day coda, despite its "all of this will happen again DUN DUN DUNNNNNN" posturing (and LOL humanity is part Cylon), because the image of imaginary (angel, yeah yeah whatever) Six and Gaius walking down the crowded sidewalk and the apocalyptic doom-saying that carried with it was pretty neat. But the montage of robots was toooooo much, it should have just been left at the one image on the tv screen but nope, gotta beat you over the head with it. And Ron Moore's gotta put his stupid face in there, because of course he does. And friggin "All Along the Watchtower" playing, UGH UGH UGH. Any time a character quoted those lyrics my skin crawled, it was so unbelievably hokey. That's the main problem i had with what BSG became -- it just got SO hokey and melodramatic and self-important without really saying anything or even being entertaining. I've seen the same arguments leveled against Lost, but i dunno, despite some moments here and there i never felt embarrassed for how badly it was being executed the way i did with BSG. BSG got so weirdly offputting; i'm not even sure how to explain it, but it's like its production qualities lowered so severely that nothing that happened on the show felt like it was of any consequence at all, or it was incredibly eye-rolling. It should have gotten so much more epic in scale, and yet the reverse happened, so it seemed like nothing was at stake, especially held up in comparison to the intensity of the early seasons.
Ugggghhhh the bits of "Passacaglia" in the soundtrack brought some terrible pangs to my heart, because a) it's SO GOOD, b) it makes the more recent scoring seem awful (orchestral > rock), and c) it reminds me so vividly of that period in time when i loved BSG the most. KOBOL'S LAST GLEAMING: IT WAS SO AMAZING. UUUUGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH.
I had been spoiled about Ellen Tigh being the final Cylon back when the season was still airing, but i mean, it didn't even seem like that big of a revelation on the show, it was just another instance of "oh, i just realized something! now i'll say it out loud, and that means it's true." But i actually really liked her as the all-knowingest of all Cylons, she was cool that way.
Iiiiiiii don't know. There's a lot i could complain about that i just don't have the energy for. I disconnected from BSG a long time ago. Uhh, as evidenced by the fact that i didn't see the finale until now. Sigh. Even so, something about series finales is always really bittersweet, no matter how flawed they are. I was prepared to be totally underwhelmed, and i certainly was in a lot of ways, and yet emotionally i still felt the loss of the characters. Plus WINDSWEPT GREEN FIELDS; that ending sure was pretty! And now i'm yearning for season one. Again. :(
Oddly enough, for as much as i totally hated the last season, and really pretty much the series in general post-season 2, i didn't entirely despise the finale. Or at least the end of it; the rest of it was maybe only slightly above average for the final season's standard of quality, but i mostly liked the end. I think probably because it was all character goodbyes, and character goodbyes get me EVERY TIME. I couldn't help but get teary-eyed. And there was so much prettiness in green fields under blue sky! IT WAS REALLY PRETTY. Which is especially surprising and delightful because BSG stopped being pretty like a century ago!
I was spoiled about LOL GOD DID IT and LOL KARA DISAPPEARS, so those things were expectedly lame. But oh man Kara and Lee saying goodbye to Adama and Roslin, that shit stabbed me right in the heart. Mom and Dad and the kids. ;________; The fact that Roslin finally died is so sad, which seems a bit silly given that she'd been dying since the very first episode. I loved Leeeeeeeeeee and his little boy excitement about wanting to go adventuring! LEEEEEEEEEEE. Too bad the love of your life is gone forever! I stopped caring so long ago that i feel like i can't get too worked up about how awful that is, so all i can really muster is... sadness. Just a whole lot of sadness.
Okay so Kara was an ~*~*~ANGEL~*~*~, but in my mind it was only the second Kara that was an angel. Somehow it makes more sense to me that she was an actual person who really did die in season 3, and the Kara that returned was an angel, but she didn't know it until her mission was complete. Ugh, i guess, i don't know, it's all dumb. I MISS BADASS CIGAR-SMOKING PILOT KARA.
Gaius wanting to start a farm got me choked up. Gaius Baltar with real human emotions!
Doc Cottle! :*)
I loved seeing baby Kara and Lee meeting for the first time, with Lee quiet and solemn and Kara loud and boisterous (THOSE TWO!), and later Lee spouting off about democracy! LEEEEEEE. I also loved seeing him with short hair again, because the long hair in present time just was not working for him at all (except for on Earth, i didn't mind it there). But i found it absolutely ridiculous that they almost had drunken sex upon THEIR FIRST MEETING, with Zak RIGHT THERE, cause i mean... whattttt. ¬__¬ Those were flashbacks, meaning they can be whenever the hell you want them to be, meaning you could have shown snippets from a larger span of time without such an unnaturally fast progression of their relationship in just a few hours.
I was super confused about them finding Earth and it being habitable, when duuuuhhhh they found Earth mid-season and it was destroyed! It took me a while to realize that the original Earth wasn't OUR Earth, and then Adama helpfully spelled it out. So i guess that was a pretty effective "gotcha!", that the Earth they were searching for all along wasn't the Earth we thought it was. Somehow i even kind of liked the present-day coda, despite its "all of this will happen again DUN DUN DUNNNNNN" posturing (and LOL humanity is part Cylon), because the image of imaginary (angel, yeah yeah whatever) Six and Gaius walking down the crowded sidewalk and the apocalyptic doom-saying that carried with it was pretty neat. But the montage of robots was toooooo much, it should have just been left at the one image on the tv screen but nope, gotta beat you over the head with it. And Ron Moore's gotta put his stupid face in there, because of course he does. And friggin "All Along the Watchtower" playing, UGH UGH UGH. Any time a character quoted those lyrics my skin crawled, it was so unbelievably hokey. That's the main problem i had with what BSG became -- it just got SO hokey and melodramatic and self-important without really saying anything or even being entertaining. I've seen the same arguments leveled against Lost, but i dunno, despite some moments here and there i never felt embarrassed for how badly it was being executed the way i did with BSG. BSG got so weirdly offputting; i'm not even sure how to explain it, but it's like its production qualities lowered so severely that nothing that happened on the show felt like it was of any consequence at all, or it was incredibly eye-rolling. It should have gotten so much more epic in scale, and yet the reverse happened, so it seemed like nothing was at stake, especially held up in comparison to the intensity of the early seasons.
Ugggghhhh the bits of "Passacaglia" in the soundtrack brought some terrible pangs to my heart, because a) it's SO GOOD, b) it makes the more recent scoring seem awful (orchestral > rock), and c) it reminds me so vividly of that period in time when i loved BSG the most. KOBOL'S LAST GLEAMING: IT WAS SO AMAZING. UUUUGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH.
I had been spoiled about Ellen Tigh being the final Cylon back when the season was still airing, but i mean, it didn't even seem like that big of a revelation on the show, it was just another instance of "oh, i just realized something! now i'll say it out loud, and that means it's true." But i actually really liked her as the all-knowingest of all Cylons, she was cool that way.
Iiiiiiii don't know. There's a lot i could complain about that i just don't have the energy for. I disconnected from BSG a long time ago. Uhh, as evidenced by the fact that i didn't see the finale until now. Sigh. Even so, something about series finales is always really bittersweet, no matter how flawed they are. I was prepared to be totally underwhelmed, and i certainly was in a lot of ways, and yet emotionally i still felt the loss of the characters. Plus WINDSWEPT GREEN FIELDS; that ending sure was pretty! And now i'm yearning for season one. Again. :(