Battlestar Galactica Episode Thread *SPOILERS*

[plasmid303]

Phew good thing they're replaying the episode right after it airs. I missed the first hour and don't want to jump in halfway.

I had no idea the final episode was airing an hour earlier than usual.

 

[Darklord Dave]

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Wow, very cool - lots of answers and a bit Deus Ex Machina (but in an okay way or perhaps Deus "x" machina? God without the machine?).

So was Hoshi a webisode character or something? They built him up and then panned to his face and I'm - "who the ^^^^ is that?" Didn't amount to much anyway.

Cool space battles - lots of firefights - old school Cylons - red band Centurions - geek overload! Cavill and his entourage striding through Galactica - classic! Galen destroying the future of the Cylon race for revenge - classic! The Opera House was a great scene - very well done.

BUT -how the hell do 36,000 people agree to give up modern conveniences? Makes no sense under any circumstances. If I'm there I'm stealing a ship and go founding Atlantis or Mu or something.

And the coda at the end? Just a bit too cute? (Yes, that's Ron Moore reading the magazine about Eve/Hera.)

 

[Darth Rage]

Keep in mind we do still have the TV movie "The Plan" to go yet. But zOMG this is INTENSE. And everything is making sense when taking a religious point of view.

Yes, it seemed to get very "religiony", nothing wrong iwth that though. I felt a little like I was watching the end of the third Matrix film watching Caprica and Balter discussing the fate of the human race. Nice cameo by Ron Moore. Overall I loved it.

 

[Lembas Eater]

Yep, I loved it.

Oh yeah Hoshi was in the webisodes and revealed to be involved with Gaeta.

Somehow I managed to not even here about the THE PLAN series until the teaser tonight: I was kinda floored but then, I'd already been floored by some awesome space battling. Loved the Centurians; great to seem some Old Models!

Too cool.
I did love the ending.
All in all the best Series Finale since Babylon 5, another show I loved (speaking of, the Cylon Colony looked an AWFUL LOT like a Shadow Vessel).

 

[ONEYE]

 

[Spartan Rex]

Epic.
Great ending(s)
But what the hell was Starbuck?

 

[darthviper107]

Yeah, that's still one of my questions. I'm guessing they'd explain it away as an act of God, but it's still a question I have.

Really great episode, very touching. And now we see where the FX budget went for the season. I really want these on Blu-Ray as soon as possible. Really well done, luckily we've got the TV movie coming and the Caprica show (which you can buy the pilot on dvd next month).

 

[Kabukiman]

But what the hell was Starbuck?

I'm guessing she was an angel that everybody could see.

Fantastic ending! Loved every minute. So glad to see a happy ending after so many years of hell.

What a ride this has been.

Only question I have - What was the deal with the Blade Runner "glimmer in the eyes" thing?

 

[pixletwin]

That was awesome. 100% perfect end as far as I'm concerned and it left a few questions with enough room to be explored (or not).

I always had a feeling that they were going to make a connection between Adama and Adam.

 

[dharper]

Epic.
Great ending(s)
But what the hell was Starbuck?

I'm thinking she was supposed to be like a messiah or prophet. Destined from birth to lead humans to earth. Plus you got the whole resurrection thing and ascending to heaven when her work was done.

 

[pixletwin]

Yup. She was an angel.

 

[cerealkeller]

It left a few loose ends .
BUT I DON"T FRAKKIN' CARE!!!! That was a perfect ending to the best show that's ever been on television. Wow. Can't really wrap my head around it all yet. Loved the redemption of Baltar, loved how it tied most of the characters up (except Starbuck), but that's a small complaint and the more i think about it, it resolved enough so we can have something to discuss about even after the show ends. Thank you Ron Moore and David Eick. You truly made a masterpiece. I will miss this show so much. Bittersweet.

 

[cerealkeller]

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Last thought, if the fate of every surviving man in the fleet is to procreate as much as possible with a ton of Tricia Helfers and Grace Parks, not sure that's such a bad deal.

Gekko

No wonder they got them to give up their tech and comforts. I would have done it for Grace Park

 

[JediMike71]

Overall, I was VERY happy with this final episode. Very bittersweet to see one of my childhood favorites resurrected into one of television's BEST series to date. Yeah, I got over the whole "Starbuck is now a girl" grudge I had about the show after I saw it and literally fell in love with Katee Sackhoff as Starbuck.

It was good to see happy endings for most of the cast. I had a feeling that Hot Dog would make it. Maybe his Dad, Edward James Olmos asked Ron Moore to let his son live in the show. I was in tears when Laura passed away in the raptor before Adama could make it to their perfect site for the cabin. I guess the old Admiral spent the rest of his days alone, like Tyrol chose to do the same. I guess I missed something...but what the heck happened to Tyrol's child? It would have been great for him and his child to be together on the new "perfect" Earth. It was good to see Hera and her real parents Helo and Boomer/Athena together. I guess it did make sense that they chose to fly the fleet of ships into the sun. Even though I cringed at seeing them go off to basically die that way. A fresh start with nearly no high-techology was a good way for the survivors to start again on a new Earth.

I agree that Starbuck must have been some guardian angel for the fleet. But I agree no real concrete answers were made for her that I could see. I guess she finally realized that getting the fleet to the perfect Earth was her destiny. She got them to the more perfect Earth she jumped to, and a new fresh start for the survivors. I just wish her and Lee had a little more of a goodbye. It seemed to be way too abrupt to me. After all they've been through together. On a side note...You know I still wanted to see old Dirk Benedict (the original Starbuck) show up in a cameo. I mean Richard Hatch (the original Apollo) had many great episodes himself as Tom Zarek. I wonder if Ron Moore approached Benedict about a part in the show. I saw one quick scene in the new Last Frakkin' Special last night with Katee Sackhoff and Dirk Benedict sitting together talking. I wonder how that conversation went.

Anyway, back on track. I will never forget this "reimagining" of Battlestar Galactica. I went into it with a "chip on my shoulder" being the old school fan of the original BSG that I am. And, I am happy to end up saying that I LOVED this show! The characters, writing, storyline, special effects...everything about it was just INCREDIBLE, and a very fulfilling thing for me. Now I am a fan of them both.

"SO SAY WE ALL"!

Now...I'm interested to check out both Caprica and this other show...Battlestar Galactica - The Plan. So we get to see what the Cylons "plan" finally is after all? Cool.

 

[Luchador138]

Overall, I was VERY happy with this final episode. Very bittersweet to see one of my childhood favorites resurrected into one of television's BEST series to date. Yeah, I got over the whole "Starbuck is now a girl" grudge I had about the show after I saw it and literally fell in love with Katee Sackhoff as Starbuck.

It was good to see happy endings for most of the cast. I had a feeling that Hot Dog would make it. Maybe his Dad, Edward James Olmos asked Ron Moore to let his son live in the show. I was in tears when Laura passed away in the raptor before Adama could make it to their perfect site for the cabin. I guess the old Admiral spent the rest of his days alone, like Tyrol chose to do the same. I guess I missed something...but what the heck happened to Tyrol's child? It would have been great for him and his child to be together on the new "perfect" Earth. It was good to see Hera and her real parents Helo and Boomer/Athena together. I guess it did make sense that they chose to fly the fleet of ships into the sun. Even though I cringed at seeing them go off to basically die that way. A fresh start with nearly no high-techology was a good way for the survivors to start again on a new Earth.

I agree that Starbuck must have been some guardian angel for the fleet. But I agree no real concrete answers were made for her that I could see. I guess she finally realized that getting the fleet to the perfect Earth was her destiny. She got them to the more perfect Earth she jumped to, and a new fresh start for the survivors. I just wish her and Lee had a little more of a goodbye. It seemed to be way too abrupt to me. After all they've been through together. On a side note...You know I still wanted to see old Dirk Benedict (the original Starbuck) show up in a cameo. I mean Richard Hatch (the original Apollo) had many great episodes himself as Tom Zarek. I wonder if Ron Moore approached Benedict about a part in the show. I saw one quick scene in the new Last Frakkin' Special last night with Katee Sackhoff and Dirk Benedict sitting together talking. I wonder how that conversation went.

Anyway, back on track. I will never forget this "reimagining" of Battlestar Galactica. I went into it with a "chip on my shoulder" being the old school fan of the original BSG that I am. And, I am happy to end up saying that I LOVED this show! The characters, writing, storyline, special effects...everything about it was just INCREDIBLE, and a very fulfilling thing for me. Now I am a fan of them both.

"SO SAY WE ALL"!

Now...I'm interested to check out both Caprica and this other show...Battlestar Galactica - The Plan. So we get to see what the Cylons "plan" finally is after all? Cool.

Hot dog is the dad of tyreals child, what I don't get is that the bones found of Hera, did she die as a child if so that's kinda sad.

 

[darthviper107]

On a side note...You know I still wanted to see old Dirk Benedict (the original Starbuck) show up in a cameo. I mean Richard Hatch (the original Apollo) had many great episodes himself as Tom Zarek. I wonder if Ron Moore approached Benedict about a part in the show. I saw one quick scene in the new Last Frakkin' Special last night with Katee Sackhoff and Dirk Benedict sitting together talking. I wonder how that conversation went.

When the show started Dirk Benedict went on a really sexist rant about them making Starbuck a woman, and originally they were going to have him in there somehow, but he really hated the new show.

 

[Spartan Rex]

Dirk wouldve been good as the new Cain.

 

[Sick Boy 82]

Damn, maybe my favorite show of all my 26 years on this Earth is over. Wow. Teared up a bit. This was a truly amazing show and I don't know what could replace this.

The ending was amazing with the current times and the robots. Guess Caprica and Baltar were angels or something?

Sucked about Kara getting zero explanation about her. But the song thing and the jump was damned cool!! To bad they never showed who her father was too.

 

[darthviper107]

I think I figured out the problem with the Cylons aging. Like how Tigh was on Caprica aging for years.

The Cylon bodies are done in batches--and all of the bodies age. So instead of just living for 1,000 years before getting to the colonies, the Final Five would just go to a new, younger body once theirs got old. Same thing with the others, they might have done like a batch of a million bodies for the Sixes, and maybe 10,000 of them have consciousness and they all age at the same rate.


Now my only problem is the prophecy that Starbuck would bring doom to the human race and that a dying leader wouldn't get to see the new homeland (since Roslin got to earth, and so did Galactica).

 

[SwedishHeat]

Kinda seems like they just disappeared Starbuck because they couldn't or just plain didn't want to explain the mysteries surrounding her.

Kinda strange how they combined the science and religious aspects so closely. Definitely ended up being a preachy episode, I don't mind it, but definitely a very "Yeah, we CAN do it, but SHOULD we??" type of situation. Seeing that robot that looked human at the end was a pretty big "SEE, Cylons already exist!!" moment.

Funny how BSG is just like Star Wars because they both happened a long time ago in a galaxy far away.

I marked out when they got to Earth though, doing my best Will Smith impression "Welcome to Urf!!". Kinda funny how the whole "Rescue Hera" plan went off without a hitch though, complete with Boomer bringing Hera to them, instead of having to search the whole colony. I really don't understand why Cavill relented so easily to the terms, he seemed like such a vicious SOB, all he wanted was to live forever??