Tonight's SERIES FINALE Episode of Battlestar Galactica [03-20-2009]...

[techs]

Originally posted by: Exterous

Originally posted by: Zim Hosein
"I don't mean to rush you, but you're keeping two civilizations waiting!" :laugh:

Definitely :laugh:

Originally posted by: loki8481
yeah, I was hoping they would have explained Starbucks father as being Daniel or something.

I was kinda hoping for that as well.

Chalk up another one for the writers - I don't think anyone foresaw the survivors starting the human race as we know it.

Also I agree that it was great mis-direction about Cabo and the cease fire for resurrection tech

A few issues here and there but over all a very good finale

Chalk up another one for the writers - I don't think anyone foresaw the survivors starting the human race as we know it.
Well, except for me. In every thread I posted about how I thought the show would end. For the last 3 years.

 

[Cattlegod]

Man, my eyes almost started to tear up when I saw Galactica getting pounded by all of the rockets/missiles from the colony ship.

 

[nageov3t]

Originally posted by: sandorski

Originally posted by: Bonesdad

Originally posted by: sandorski
My eyes keep wanting to water when thinking of it. Now I need to find a new show to watch. Going to be hard to match BSG.

DITTO...there is nothing on TV now, as far as I'm concerned. I'll check out Caprica, if the writing and acting are good, I'll stick around. I had no faith in this run of BSG when it started either, but lookie what they did!

I watch Lost, but other than that all I have are SG reruns now. Hopefully SG:Universe comes out soon and hopefully it's good.

Kings?

 

[techs]

Wait, if Hera was half Cylon.....and Hera is the one all of us descended from.....
WE'RE ALL FRAKKIN' CYLONS!

 

[Babbles]

Originally posted by: loki8481

Originally posted by: skillyho
Well what was the deal with "Daniel" (the boxed line?). I was convinced he was Baultar...or Baultar was him...blah.

I will be watching the last 30 minutes of that again.

yeah, I was hoping they would have explained Starbucks father as being Daniel or something.

I think it was sort of implied that Daniel was Kara's father and the piano bar scenes were her sort of imagining being with her father at the piano again.

 

[SunnyD]

Originally posted by: Exterous
Also I agree that it was great mis-direction about Cabo and the cease fire for resurrection tech

Twas no misdirection - they were being genuine. The 5 (or 4) knew Cavil had no wish to die, and Resurrection was the Cylon's only means of survival without Hera. Cavil didn't need Hera if he had Resurrection. So it was mutually beneficial.

As far as thinking it was a misdirection in order to nuke the colony (which I think is what you're implying)... the nukes were launched totally by accident. Racetrack was dead in the raptor, after taking a meteorite to the face or whatever. His hand ended up falling on the trigger switch to launch the missiles. It was totally by coincidence that the nukes launched. Or was it god's plan........

My personal favorite was when Cavil shit his pants when the nukes went off and said "frak it", stuck the gun in his mouth and offed.

 

[Bonesdad]

Originally posted by: sandorski

Originally posted by: Bonesdad

Originally posted by: sandorski
My eyes keep wanting to water when thinking of it. Now I need to find a new show to watch. Going to be hard to match BSG.

DITTO...there is nothing on TV now, as far as I'm concerned. I'll check out Caprica, if the writing and acting are good, I'll stick around. I had no faith in this run of BSG when it started either, but lookie what they did!

I watch Lost, but other than that all I have are SG reruns now. Hopefully SG:Universe comes out soon and hopefully it's good.

Sorry, those shows just don't cut it...they are good, but really...c'mon...do they hold a candle to BSG?

 

[Bonesdad]

Originally posted by: Exterous

Originally posted by: Zim Hosein
"I don't mean to rush you, but you're keeping two civilizations waiting!" :laugh:

Definitely :laugh:

Originally posted by: loki8481
yeah, I was hoping they would have explained Starbucks father as being Daniel or something.

I was kinda hoping for that as well.

Chalk up another one for the writers - I don't think anyone foresaw the survivors starting the human race as we know it.

Also I agree that it was great mis-direction about Cabo and the cease fire for resurrection tech

A few issues here and there but over all a very good finale

I wondered about the survivors starting "us" way back in season 1...then so much twisting has happened...I didn't know where they would go....Once Kara started typing in the jump coordinates...I knew.

 

[cronos]

Excellent finale. I absolutely loved it.

Btw, take a look at your TV. While we are discussing this, the episode is happening again :laugh:

 

[OutHouse]

best tv ever! but now i have more questions. what the frack was Kara, and i dont understand the importance of Hara. i know she was half cylon/human but i still dont get it... the final scenes with Adama and Roslin were done very well not cheesy or canned it was the perfect ending for her.

The battle was outstanding some classic lines in there.

 

[Paratus]

Frakking awesome ending. I laughed my ass off when I saw head Baltar and 6 standing behind Ron Moore, and then all the robots dancing to AATWT. Brilliant.

 

[Narse]

Citrix, Hera is easy, she was "Eve" the start of the human race(a cylon/human)

 

[CFster]

The whole thing seemed a little bit like a cop out to me. It's well known that the writers had no idea how to end this thing last season.

Explaining most everything as being a result of "divine" intervention seems to answer a bunch of questions easily, but seems like the story got so convoluted a couple of seasons ago they realized there was no way to end it so they took the easy road.

 

[CFster]

dp

 

[Reliant]

Originally posted by: CFster
That and who really wants to watch the series again. It's kind of depressing that all that fighting a struggling really just culminated on the lot of them wasting away alone on a planet somewhere. I mean look at Adama - he probably fought hardest of all, and he dies alone.

The darkness is one of the points of the show, and I'm glad it didn't totally do a 180 at the end and change what it was.

 

[CFster]

Adama also said the planet (Earth) they jumped to was over a million light years away. How did they jump that far, as it's been made clear they have a limited range? Also, a million light years away from anything in this galaxy would put them in the starless void between galaxies.

I thought for sure they would have fell into the black hole and arrive at Earth in the past or something. Probably wasn't in the budget to pull that one off.

 

[sandorski]

Originally posted by: CFster
Adama also said the planet (Earth) they jumped to was over a million light years away. How did they jump that far, as it's been made clear they have a limited range? Also, a million light years away from anything in this galaxy would put them in the starless void between galaxies.

I thought for sure they would have fell into the black hole and arrive at Earth in the past or something. Probably wasn't in the budget to pull that one off.

It wasn't 1 Jump between the 2.

 

[sandorski]

Originally posted by: Bonesdad

Originally posted by: sandorski

Originally posted by: Bonesdad

Originally posted by: sandorski
My eyes keep wanting to water when thinking of it. Now I need to find a new show to watch. Going to be hard to match BSG.

DITTO...there is nothing on TV now, as far as I'm concerned. I'll check out Caprica, if the writing and acting are good, I'll stick around. I had no faith in this run of BSG when it started either, but lookie what they did!

I watch Lost, but other than that all I have are SG reruns now. Hopefully SG:Universe comes out soon and hopefully it's good.

Sorry, those shows just don't cut it...they are good, but really...c'mon...do they hold a candle to BSG?

Gotta watch something.

 

[OrByte]

FU guys!! I havent seen it yet. Im not reading any posts in this thread I just wanted to post a quick note saying FU you guys and Im jealous of those on the east coast that have already seen this episode

I have to wait

:|

fyouuuuU!!!!!

ok there Im done.

 

[Reliant]

Originally posted by: OrByte
FU guys!! I havent seen it yet. Im not reading any posts in this thread I just wanted to post a quick note saying FU you guys and Im jealous of those on the east coast that have already seen this episode

I have to wait

:|

fyouuuuU!!!!!

ok there Im done.

I'm West Coast but my Sci FI HD is on East Coast time so I get to live in the future!

 

[Brian48]

You west coast guys haven't seen it?

****SPOILER ALERT****

Starbuck wakes up at the end, only played by Dirk Benedict, turns over to his wife Cassy and says "Darling, I just had the wildest dream".

 

[Sacrilege]

I can't get over how monumental Chief Ty's decision to strangle Tory was. If he hadn't strangled her would the humans and cylons be in some sort of state of peace? Without finding Earth?

It's kind of odd how everyone is fine with him just offing her there on the bridge mezzanine.

And what happened to Adama? Did he just starve to death next to Rosalyn's grave? He wasn't on the verge of death as he implied to Lee.

 

[Sacrilege]

Originally posted by: Brian48
You west coast guys haven't seen it?

****SPOILER ALERT****

Starbuck wakes up at the end, only played by Dirk Benedict, turns over to his wife Cassy and says "Darling, I just had the wildest dream".

I liked the olde tyme original series Cylon troopers on the Colony. I assume they were in previous episodes too?

 

[nageov3t]

Originally posted by: Sacrilege
I can't get over how monumental Chief Ty's decision to strangle Tory was. If he hadn't strangled her would the humans and cylons be in some sort of state of peace? Without finding Earth?

It's kind of odd how everyone is fine with him just offing her there on the bridge mezzanine.

And what happened to Adama? Did he just starve to death next to Rosalyn's grave? He wasn't on the verge of death as he implied to Lee.

yeah, I mean, wtf, he couldn't have waited 30 seconds until after world peace was restored? and it's not like Gaelin's hands are clean.

TBH, I think I'd have preferred that ending with the second hour devoted to the future of humanity and the human/cylon hybrids, going into more depth about the importance of Starbuck and Hera.

 

[Vic]

I am Jack's crushing sense of disappointment.