In the end, I wish Starbuck's father turned out to be Darth Vader.
(Fair warning: if you're still watching Battlestar and haven't seen the ending, skip this.)
You know, thinking back on the finale now for BSG months later I have to think:
Seriously-- a lot of that was messed up. I mean, the first hour was great-- the whole rescue Hera thing-- but even that seemed kind of stripped down and "let's run down this hallway/shoot/let's run down this hallway/shoot. Only when it got to the standoff in the command center did it really get interesting.
But then I got to realizing that it all boiled down to "and a child shall lead us"-- which has been done to death. Some--hell, most of you are too young to remember, but the miniseries V ended with a kid saving them too from the lizard aliens. And she was a hybrid too now that I think about it! Only she was half-reptile, not half-toaster.
The biggest problem though was everyone-- and I mean EVERYONE agreeing to leave creature comforts behind and going granola. 53K (or was it 35K?) people just suddenly up and decide "Hey, I don't need a machine to wash my clothes, I'll just do it in this little creek bed!"
Seriously-- go a week out in nature without so much as a toothbrush or a nice mattress, and see how long it takes before you realize this was a bad idea. Clearly, it was-- they all died eventually, never giving rise to modern society until tens of thousands of years later.
Basically it boils down to Ronald. D Moore going "Hmm... how do I connect this reality to our own?" and basically painted himself into a corner. He had to remove every single piece of evidence and technology from the colony and throw it away into the only place he could: the sun.
And after all that bonding between father and son Adama, and suddenly the old man decides to go build a cabin on his own, never to visit again? I usually can't build an IKEA dresser without asking someone to hold a piece up for a minute while I hammer a few pegs in.
And overall, despite being two hours, it still felt rushed-- tying up loose ends and complicated stories in a finale is always a risky, convoluted thing, which is why I like Lost and 24-- they get a lot of them out of the way mid-season and focus on what's left. That's not to say though they don't have their fair share of gaping plotholes.
Ironically, the one thing I didn't have a problem with was the one thing a lot of people did: Kara's vanishing. To me, it made perfect sense...in that I like how her story wrapped up, even if she was nothing more than a gun-toting angel or spectre or whatever after her return and I'm not one to buy into angels. But I dug it. I really, really liked it.
In the end, I still love the show very, very much for its humanity, its struggle and truly talented cast-- but it could have done a better frakin' job of cleaning up the mess sooner.
So say me all.
You know, thinking back on the finale now for BSG months later I have to think:
Seriously-- a lot of that was messed up. I mean, the first hour was great-- the whole rescue Hera thing-- but even that seemed kind of stripped down and "let's run down this hallway/shoot/let's run down this hallway/shoot. Only when it got to the standoff in the command center did it really get interesting.
But then I got to realizing that it all boiled down to "and a child shall lead us"-- which has been done to death. Some--hell, most of you are too young to remember, but the miniseries V ended with a kid saving them too from the lizard aliens. And she was a hybrid too now that I think about it! Only she was half-reptile, not half-toaster.
The biggest problem though was everyone-- and I mean EVERYONE agreeing to leave creature comforts behind and going granola. 53K (or was it 35K?) people just suddenly up and decide "Hey, I don't need a machine to wash my clothes, I'll just do it in this little creek bed!"
Seriously-- go a week out in nature without so much as a toothbrush or a nice mattress, and see how long it takes before you realize this was a bad idea. Clearly, it was-- they all died eventually, never giving rise to modern society until tens of thousands of years later.
Basically it boils down to Ronald. D Moore going "Hmm... how do I connect this reality to our own?" and basically painted himself into a corner. He had to remove every single piece of evidence and technology from the colony and throw it away into the only place he could: the sun.
And after all that bonding between father and son Adama, and suddenly the old man decides to go build a cabin on his own, never to visit again? I usually can't build an IKEA dresser without asking someone to hold a piece up for a minute while I hammer a few pegs in.
And overall, despite being two hours, it still felt rushed-- tying up loose ends and complicated stories in a finale is always a risky, convoluted thing, which is why I like Lost and 24-- they get a lot of them out of the way mid-season and focus on what's left. That's not to say though they don't have their fair share of gaping plotholes.
Ironically, the one thing I didn't have a problem with was the one thing a lot of people did: Kara's vanishing. To me, it made perfect sense...in that I like how her story wrapped up, even if she was nothing more than a gun-toting angel or spectre or whatever after her return and I'm not one to buy into angels. But I dug it. I really, really liked it.
In the end, I still love the show very, very much for its humanity, its struggle and truly talented cast-- but it could have done a better frakin' job of cleaning up the mess sooner.
So say me all.