On the End of Battlestar Galactica

[labingi]

When I love a story, I usually criticize the heck out of it. I love BSG (sometimes), but as it draws to a close, I don't want to criticize it; I want to praise it. Maybe that's because, while it fails in the usual ways, it succeeds uniquely.

Comments

[lillibet]

this may be pitched to appeal to me as an agnostic

Amen, sister! I am finding very few others who enjoyed the finale and felt satisfied by it and most of the objections seem to boil down to "but it didn't *explain* anything" and I think that it did. So maybe it is a shout-out to us agnostics. I need to go find some men who liked it, before I also start thinking it might be a gender thing--the other two people on my flist who admit to liking the finale are both women and that's way too few to base any theory on!

[labingi]

Interesting! I wonder if the gender divide is an artifact of the prevalence of women on LJ? I do have a male friend who liked how BSG wrapped up. This surprised me because he's a dyed-in-the-wool atheist, yet he said he found the explanation for Starbuck "vague but satisfying." Who'd a thunk?

[meganinhiding]

Overall I liked the ending though it seems like female characters have a lower life expectancy than the men.

[labingi]

I hadn't thought of that, but for the principal 4 characters, it's certainly true. Hm.