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[actourdreams]

Upon revisiting Battlestar Galactica fandom, I have come to two conclusions. 1), I love this show. 2), the only way I'm going to live with the finale is to stick my fingers in my ears and pretend that the nuclear wasteland planet is our Earth, and the one they settle on is another, similar planet. (We're not even going to get into the Luddite

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[rogueslayer452]

Honestly? I adored the finale and wouldn't have it any other way. It's just perfect for the show, and I will forever defend it with my life.

[actourdreams]

I thought that it got all the characters to a nice place, and although honestly the Luddite view ticks me off, I can also see where they were coming from.

However, if that is our Earth they have failed biology, archeology, and possibly geology forever (if the dates I've heard thrown around are correct and Tyrol wants to settle in Scotland, for example, he will have to contend with the fact that it's under an enormous sheet of ice). Hence, problems solved if it is not our Earth.

[rogueslayer452]

Well, Tyrol did say he wanted to go someplace that was cold so, of course he would go there. ;)

Honestly, I just don't understand all the negativity I've seen. While there were some issues here and there, I thought they did a good job overall and I can overlook those things because it made sense in my opinion. And I have watched the show forwards and backwards, beginning to end, and am a huge hardcore fan myself. So, idk. Different expectations and viewpoints I suppose. But whatever.

[lyssie]

(Tigh's "if someone did that to Ellen" line bothered me a bit, because, dude, you did do that to Ellen).

YES, THAT. LIKE. The moment that line aired the first time, I was like "SHUT UP, SAUL."

And hahahah. I shall play loud music over the... ah, finale.

Gaeta was totally not a bad guy--that's more Zarek or the Pegasus crew's line of country. Sparky was just between a rock and a hard place, and chose a side that the ~good guys~ were against.

AND OH MY TOUCHY-FEELIE KIDS.

[actourdreams]

YES. I seriously wish that one of the Final Five killing another had been made a bigger deal, just because they'd basically been united by destiny or whatever since prior to fleeing their homeworld... and though the fact that most of them have killed other Cylons has been brought up I feel like that should have been more... momentous.

I thought they got all the characters to a place which, while I might not have always liked, I thought I could leave them at. They did, for example, make me retroactively okay with Baltar after referring to him as "that idiot" since the miniseries. It's just that it failed common sense forever.

I'm glad someone agrees! Somebody was complaining that all the queerfolk were evil, and I was totally not buying that. That show basically operates in a liminal space - it's about people making choices in good faith with bad options. (Also, hah, Sparky. I had not heard that one before).

I KNO~W. MY SHIP: <3.

[lyssie]

I somewhere have memories of being angry and also being happy about the finale. I think it's one of those things that I try not to think about a lot except for that part where Kara and Sam are now ~angels~ in the afterlife

Well, it can be argued that he's shaded/framed as evil by the show to some extent--and that IS an issue the show was fail on. But it is really a shades of grey thing, more than anything.

Sparky is because he was in AV Club in high school and once blew himself up. Or at least, that was the running joke for a while at one point.