BSG final thoughts
Mar. 23rd, 2009 07:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
charmaxMine are not exactly the first footprints in the snow here so much of this will have been said already and more eloquently but I just wanted to say a few things about the BSG final.
I loved pretty much everything up to finding our Earth but I could happily have left it at that. The mission to rescue Hera felt suitably epic and exciting and it was so nice to see Baltar finally doing something not motivated by self interest. I had fully expected him to die, he probably deserved to die but I’m rather glad he didn’t nonetheless.
It was nice to get the flashbacks to Caprica. I found Gaius’s one the most enlightening and his cantankerous old dad was straight out of a million TV dramas but I enjoyed it anyway. I thought it was telling that Six was so horrified at the way Baltar treated his father. I choose to believe that she really did find Old man Baltar a nice home to live in and didn’t just take him out back and snap his neck like a twig.
Roslin’s flashback gave us a chance to see Laura being awesome and looking amazing which was something I didn’t think I’d get to see again. What made it so poignant for me wasn’t just that it highlighted how frail she had become but also that it showed how much of her own humanity she had lost in leading the fleet.
I was never the world’s biggest Lee/Kara shipper but even I thought that they were undeserved by a flashback that had them drunkenly going for it while Zak was passed out in the corner. Also why the pigeon metaphor? Is there some significance I missed because Kara as an owl would have made sense because she’s the one with the knowledge to get to Earth, Kara as raven Harbinger of death, Kara as peacock resurrection I would even accepted a dove but a PIGEON??
I always knew Boomer and Tory were doomed but Cavil’s suicide made no sense at all. I would’ve preferred for Racetrack to have actively caused the detonation rather than her dead hand flopping on the trigger. Was that meant to be divine intervention because we were specifically told God didn’t take sides.
I know there were mitigating circumstances but I really, really hated the idea of Sam as hybrid. Him piloting the ships into the sun did absolutely nothing to change my opinion that it was sad in a horrible way not a moving good storytelling way to see the character most defined by his physicality, the sportsman, the freedom fighter was reduced to spouting gibberish in a bath.
I have a number of unanswered questions. “They have a plan” really? because I never figured out what the Cylon plan was. Some of them had agendas sure but an overall plan not so much. Why did the Cylons attack after 40 years peace? I know there was that episode were Adama thought it was all down to him but surely that was just his ego talking and not actual fact. Mass genocide over a black ops mission one that failed at that, seems a bit excessive. What was the significance of all that Daniel stuff? What exactly was Kara? I’m not buying her as an angel at all. I had expected that Greek mythology would prove more relevant than it actually did. Other than the new inhabitants of Earth name the constellations after their old homes I can’t really see that it has any relevance. Was there any point at all to Caprica’s pregnancy and miscarriage? I like “All Along The Watchtower” as much as the next person but seriously wtf? The opera house payoff was visually nifty particularly with the final five all in a line like that but actually that was something I didn’t realise needed explaining. I pretty much figured it was a shared vision/dream about the importance of Hera to both Cylons and humanity. I hadn’t realised it literally foretold people chasing her down corridors.
I think everyone has mentioned this but Lampkin and Hoshi as president and Admiral!! How far down the military command structure do you have to go to get to Hoshi? And Lampkin not one of the ships captains from the new Quorum, surely there was a deputy president. isn’t it Lee? Why was he allowed to go on what seemed like a suicide mission when Doc Cottle was considered too important.
Lee says there shall be no cities and so there shall be none. Everyone agrees to ditch their technology, all of them, all of it. Nobody hangs onto some antibiotics or a knife or a spade or a lighter or that last tube of toothpaste? Leaving aside the ickiness of "we need to procreate with them and teach them our language" they’d better learn how to communicate with the native population pretty quickly because they’ll need them to show them the art of flint knapping and how to make a fire and which fauna and flora is actually edible. None of which really matters because there is probably an Earth disease to which the incomers have no immunity and they’ll all be wiped out.
I was glad to see the Centurions gain their freedom but less happy with the reasoning that they’d earned it for their recent loyalty to humans rather than because it was morally wrong to enslave them in the first place.
Laura’s death was sad but actually I was more moved when John Connor was crying into his mothers lap like a little boy. Which brings me to the one thing that last few minutes of BSG did give me. I get to continue to believe that BSG and T:SCC are part of the same universe This has all happened before and it will all happen again.
Goodbye BSG! Despite everything, I’m gonna miss you.
I loved pretty much everything up to finding our Earth but I could happily have left it at that. The mission to rescue Hera felt suitably epic and exciting and it was so nice to see Baltar finally doing something not motivated by self interest. I had fully expected him to die, he probably deserved to die but I’m rather glad he didn’t nonetheless.
It was nice to get the flashbacks to Caprica. I found Gaius’s one the most enlightening and his cantankerous old dad was straight out of a million TV dramas but I enjoyed it anyway. I thought it was telling that Six was so horrified at the way Baltar treated his father. I choose to believe that she really did find Old man Baltar a nice home to live in and didn’t just take him out back and snap his neck like a twig.
Roslin’s flashback gave us a chance to see Laura being awesome and looking amazing which was something I didn’t think I’d get to see again. What made it so poignant for me wasn’t just that it highlighted how frail she had become but also that it showed how much of her own humanity she had lost in leading the fleet.
I was never the world’s biggest Lee/Kara shipper but even I thought that they were undeserved by a flashback that had them drunkenly going for it while Zak was passed out in the corner. Also why the pigeon metaphor? Is there some significance I missed because Kara as an owl would have made sense because she’s the one with the knowledge to get to Earth, Kara as raven Harbinger of death, Kara as peacock resurrection I would even accepted a dove but a PIGEON??
I always knew Boomer and Tory were doomed but Cavil’s suicide made no sense at all. I would’ve preferred for Racetrack to have actively caused the detonation rather than her dead hand flopping on the trigger. Was that meant to be divine intervention because we were specifically told God didn’t take sides.
I know there were mitigating circumstances but I really, really hated the idea of Sam as hybrid. Him piloting the ships into the sun did absolutely nothing to change my opinion that it was sad in a horrible way not a moving good storytelling way to see the character most defined by his physicality, the sportsman, the freedom fighter was reduced to spouting gibberish in a bath.
I have a number of unanswered questions. “They have a plan” really? because I never figured out what the Cylon plan was. Some of them had agendas sure but an overall plan not so much. Why did the Cylons attack after 40 years peace? I know there was that episode were Adama thought it was all down to him but surely that was just his ego talking and not actual fact. Mass genocide over a black ops mission one that failed at that, seems a bit excessive. What was the significance of all that Daniel stuff? What exactly was Kara? I’m not buying her as an angel at all. I had expected that Greek mythology would prove more relevant than it actually did. Other than the new inhabitants of Earth name the constellations after their old homes I can’t really see that it has any relevance. Was there any point at all to Caprica’s pregnancy and miscarriage? I like “All Along The Watchtower” as much as the next person but seriously wtf? The opera house payoff was visually nifty particularly with the final five all in a line like that but actually that was something I didn’t realise needed explaining. I pretty much figured it was a shared vision/dream about the importance of Hera to both Cylons and humanity. I hadn’t realised it literally foretold people chasing her down corridors.
I think everyone has mentioned this but Lampkin and Hoshi as president and Admiral!! How far down the military command structure do you have to go to get to Hoshi? And Lampkin not one of the ships captains from the new Quorum, surely there was a deputy president. isn’t it Lee? Why was he allowed to go on what seemed like a suicide mission when Doc Cottle was considered too important.
Lee says there shall be no cities and so there shall be none. Everyone agrees to ditch their technology, all of them, all of it. Nobody hangs onto some antibiotics or a knife or a spade or a lighter or that last tube of toothpaste? Leaving aside the ickiness of "we need to procreate with them and teach them our language" they’d better learn how to communicate with the native population pretty quickly because they’ll need them to show them the art of flint knapping and how to make a fire and which fauna and flora is actually edible. None of which really matters because there is probably an Earth disease to which the incomers have no immunity and they’ll all be wiped out.
I was glad to see the Centurions gain their freedom but less happy with the reasoning that they’d earned it for their recent loyalty to humans rather than because it was morally wrong to enslave them in the first place.
Laura’s death was sad but actually I was more moved when John Connor was crying into his mothers lap like a little boy. Which brings me to the one thing that last few minutes of BSG did give me. I get to continue to believe that BSG and T:SCC are part of the same universe This has all happened before and it will all happen again.
Goodbye BSG! Despite everything, I’m gonna miss you.
