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angiecita

because i'm a nerd...

Aug 23, 2009 03:47

A whole bunch of Battlestar Galactica people were on Stargate:SG1 first. I'm making a list:

Gaeta, Seelix, Elosha, Boomer, Helo, and, according to IMDB, Chief and Socinus

Skinjobs- Simon, Doral, and Cavill

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bossfearless August 27 2009, 23:32:38 UTC

I just finished watching the series last night, and what a gods-awful ending to a great show. BSG had such great plot until the very end, and then the writers just copped out and did some giant deus ex machina nonsense saying, "Here, have a planet. It's got Africans and everything!"

angiecita August 28 2009, 19:04:34 UTC

Actually, I liked the ending. The "we can help this backwards native peoples" was a little much, but I liked that the number code from All Along the Watchtower were the jump coordinates for Earth. There were only two places they could go with the script, either they all die gloriously in battle, or they magically find earth. The former would have left me unsatisfied.

bossfearless August 28 2009, 21:38:08 UTC

I just think it was ridiculous that they then sent all their ships into the sun. And then scattered everyone across the planet, far away from the only freaking doctor they had, and marooned themselves without any kind of useful equipment, and then dissolved the entire government, and then all the major characters wandered off to die, and all of it in the span of a half hour epilogue.

If they were going to do something like that, it could have been written across a couple of episodes so that it might make the least bit of sense.

angiecita September 1 2009, 19:52:10 UTC

yeah, the ending was rushed. As i understand it, they were planning on another season, so some of the storyline that was going to show rather than tell got smooshed and they had to tell more ( ... )

bossfearless September 2 2009, 11:06:29 UTC

I can dig most of what you're saying. I didn't realize that they got shafted on getting a final season (Farscape, anyone?) but that's exactly what it felt like, watching the last episode. Here I thought it was just a sudden rash of bad writing! I really would have liked to see what played out on Earth after the settlement. I don't think that splitting up the populace would have "fixed" the cycle of violence, more than likely it would have created rival city-states divided along cylon/polytheistic/monotheistic lines. The final season should have been a holy war, dammit ( ... )