This is why I don't want to watch BSG, okay?
Brad Templeton, he say: "The worst ending in the history of on-screen SF." (David Thompson)
Some chick at Suicide Girls was even more blunt.
( Taking a break from driving that one meme into the ground )
Some chick at Suicide Girls was even more blunt.
( Taking a break from driving that one meme into the ground )
ST:TNG's "All Good Things" was good?
Ow. I mean, really. It wasn't as flawed as the finale of BSG, but it wasn't good.
The review did hit several nails on the head accurately. I have no idea why Dean Stockwell's Cylon character shot himself rather than one or more of the people (Cylon and human alike) that he must have believed had somehow contrived to trick him (he was not the trusting type, and didn't have a good position from which to understand why everything suddenly went sideways...). The decision by the ENTIRE 30,000 plus survivors to abandon technology is unbelievable. I don't care if it *was* supposed to be God's will, humans supposedly have free will - and *some* of them would have refused to give up technology. And yes, the launch of the nukes - which was part of the original battle plan, but which had failed because the pilot had been killed and her craft disabled - was particularly contrived.
On the other hand, I had no problem with how Kara's story ended. It has nothing to do per se with God's will. It has a LOT to do with the original Galactica's series bible. The "Ships of Light" - which either were or were piloted by angelic beings, and who opposed the Evil One (Patrick McNee!) - were not one of the old series better ideas, but they *did* bring the dead - in that case Apollo, who was, of course, Richard Hatch - back to life after he had been struck down by Iblis, who in that story was not allowed to kill those who had not given themselves to him. I think that a lot of the new show's religious overtones were rooted in that story... in any case, Kara Thrace *died* during the 3rd season. Dead. Kaput. As in pushing up daisies. And her ship are sent back to the fleet to lead mankind to its destiny (within the scope of the show, anyway), and once she has done that, and after she has had a change to talk one more time with Apollo, he turns around and she isn't there - because in some sense she never really was.
Still, on a positive note, the finale did make the final message of BSG clear - Jimi Hendrix is God.
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Clapton: (shocked) "Er, I'm a guitar player, Your Majesty."
HMQE2: (nods) "Ah, I see." (turns to Brian May) "And you, Sir Brian. Do you also play guitar?"
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