BSG Series finale

[Fulmar]

moot I'll agree with you Post Season 2.  Not sure how much you actually watched but Season 1 and 2 were absolutely top notch.  The entire show sort of lost its way after episode 4 into season 3.  It was still good... but not great.  I will say though that the finale was beautifully executed for how bad they frakked the show up.

Season 3 middle of the way through was the writing conflicts with Moore and SciFi.  Sci-Fi wanted to move away from the continous storyline to a single story per episode format as it would attract more viewers that didn't watch it from the beginning.  But as Moore later won the argument, that format did not sit well with the direction of the show.  So I agree that the middle of Season 3 not on par with the rest.

[Murdr]

LOL

[JB88]

just watched it.

thoughts?

[moot]

v   10 floors below..  v

[soda72]

I'll give the finale an 8 out of 10..

 - abandoning technology seemed unrealistic,  at a minimum they would need to make sure they had a consistant way to produce food before even considering doing something like that.  They would also need to protect themselves from predators, that would also include protecting themselves from the indigenous humans living there.

-  The few characters that seemed to go off to live by themselves is really ridiculous.  Every single one of them would die as soon as winter sets in.

-  destroying the remaining fleet also seemed a weird thing to do.  It would have made more sense to me if they said they had to do it to make sure the 'bad cylons' (assuming any were left) would have much more difficult time finding them if the fleet was destroyed.  If I remember correctly there was one episode where the cylons said they were able to track the fleet because of some kind of radiation signature coming from ships.  If that was the case then getting rid of the fleet would make sense in that case.

- Starbuck disappearing at the end without a clear reason as to what she was at first seemed disappointing.  But in the long run it was probably the best thing to do.

[Ack-Ack]

So Starbuck was a "Being of Light" from the original series after all.


ack-ack

[JB88]

ah

 

[-tronski-]

 Tronsky

[WilldCrd]

One of the reasons I liked BSG so much is that it left things up to the imagination. This imnsho the way sci-fi should be. Not having everything handed to you on a silver plater.
in retrospect RDM did pay alot of homage to TOS. Beings of light, life here beginning out there ECT.. Its all subtle but there are many. Ya just gotta fill in the blanks with your imagination.
Like how in the original the beings of light gave startbuck, apollo, and sheba the heading they should take to earth. In the new version starbuck was given the coord to punch into the ftl, she didn't realize it but it was implanted via the music.
There are lots of parallels that if you really watch and think about you will find.
I was always a fan of TOS and I know that if most of the fans that hated the "new" version really payed attention they would see ALOT of the original's story and plots just re imagined in the new one.

[firbal]

I liked both verions. I don't see why you have to like one or the other.

[moot]

Deus Ex.

I couldn't agree more.

[Sikboy]

I finally got around to watching this.

More than anything I was just glad that they wrapped things up. I tend to punch out of shows early, and BSG was no exception. I've seen all the episodes, but I stopped really focusing on after two seasons.

I always thought Star Trek was really really preachy too. Especially TOS.

-Sik

[rpm]

I have to give the series 6/10. It was entertaining, but there was so much more they could have done with the original concept of the running battle that just never played out in this version. I guess they decided that having "fleshies" onboard equalled the running battle the humans faced in the original series. I wanted to see more aerial combat like the original had, not a space soap opera.