The Frakkin End

March 20, 2009 in thoughts | 12 comments

To the people who are totally disappointed with last half of the BSG finale… why? What were you hoping for? It’s the job of good science fiction to comment on current events and the human condition. Correlating the cycle of violence and hate that plagued the BSG universe to all the problems we’re currently dealing with seems pretty apropos to me. Did you need one last twist? Did you get bored while saying farewell to and wrapping up all the characters?

All right angel Caprica and angel Baltar could have had a slightly less cheesy departing moment, writing could have used a little last minute tweaking, but the warning of a repeat to what’s happened before and equating our madly technology and consumer driven culture to the rise of the Cylons was a perfect ending IMHO.

What’s your opinion?

  • Digg
  • StumbleUpon
  • Mixx
  • Reddit
  • TwitThis

Tags: , ,

  • anonymous

    strong first half, reminiscent of the first season. unsurprising cliche second half!

    • http://blogmeetsworld.com LRN

      So you were looking for a final twist. I think the series has been building to just this ending for five years, what would’ve really done it for you?

  • Nan

    In the Tomb of Athena on Kobol, they saw in the sky the twelve constellations supposedly from the view of the thirteenth colony. That turned out to be the nuked Earth, more than 150,000 years ago. The sky 150,000 years ago would not have looked like that! Thus ending the show in our real world is inconsistent.

    • http://blogmeetsworld.com LRN

      Isn’t that a little “Simpson’s Comic Book Guy”? I feel like I have to play Homer to your Itchy and Scratchy nerd. And wasn’t that referring to the original Earth? Didn’t the end of the show confirm an Earth that came before, that of the thirteenth colony, and our Earth?

  • anonymous

    Don’t get me wrong, I enjoyed the episode. As I said, the first half was a great throwback to the beginning of the series.

    I’m not sure what I was looking for. It just seems like they took the easy way out with the ending. Given how the entire show was about surviving in the face of adversity, it’s a big of a cop-out to just tie everything up neatly like that. If somebody sat down before this episode and just wrote down the happiest Hollywood ending they could think of, they’d have written the second half of the episode.

    Although maybe that’s a good thing. It is a show about optimism after all. Why not give them the happy ending?

    • http://blogmeetsworld.com LRN

      Hey Anonymous,
      I see what you’re saying, and certainly there’s no easy way to wrap up 5 seasons of hell inside 30 minutes. While I really enjoy the slant the ending took, maybe it could have benefited from laying a little more groundwork for how their arrival would have shaped our history, but I think we can all draw our own conclusions.

  • anonymous

    WRT to Nan’s point, even assuming that the tomb on kobol adjusted for time, it is a little weird that the 13th colony and new earth both have the same night sky

    • http://blogmeetsworld.com LRN

      Oh I get it now, just rolled back to that scene. Does seem a little glaring for a technical error, maybe they’re trying to say something? What’s one more layer on the most metaphorical show since Twin Peaks? ;-P

  • anonymous

    Definitely agree that it’s a hard thing to wrap up any show, let alone such an epic show. They hit everything they had to (Adama+Roslin, Starbuck, Hera’s significance). Certainly a decent ending, just not a mindblowing one.

    • http://blogmeetsworld.com LRN

      I’m very satisfied with it from a sci-fi perspective, but you’ve got a point on it not going out with a bang. The serenity of it is fitting in a way, I’d want to settle down too after everything they’ve been through, but in sure marketing hype fashion, we were certainly led to expect a life altering experience :)

  • http://twitter.com/leenewton/status/1364324087 Lee Newton

    New blog post: The Frakkin End http://tinyurl.com/d8euu7

  • http://twitter.com/leenewton/status/1364337233 Lee Newton

    #bsg #thefrakkinend People who really hated the end of the series, why? What’s up? http://tinyurl.com/d8euu7

Get Adobe Flash playerPlugin by wpburn.com wordpress themes