Battlestar Galactica: Final Season

Coca_Cola_Zero · 2009-03-27T07:57:29.000Z

Munin:

Besides - now that Kara turned out to be some “angel”, what was all that crap about her sending mankind to its destruction/doom? Something like that appeared in Razor and several times in the regular series.

[apologist]You’re reading too much into a throw away line! Sure, it is one they kept coming back to, mentioning it what seems like a dozen times from different characters including the Anders-hybrid, but jeez it was just a bit of dialogue!![/apologist]

Editer · 2009-03-27T13:18:24.000Z

Eric T Cheng:

Why does everyone assume by ditching their ships that the colonial humans ditched all their techs? They kept the Raptors and Vipers apparently and as well as enough materials to build a city until Lee nixed the idea.

Actually, special effects were created of the Raptor and Vipers being blown up in the background during the scene where the settlers walked by in a line. But Moore said that was cut because it was too distracting.

So the intent was certainly that they destroyed most of their tech.

Greg_Williams · 2009-03-29T08:42:20.000Z

I was rewatching the pilot again last night, and there is a near throw away line at the very start where one of the cylons says

“They were so affraid of their enemies, they looked backwards for protection”.

Trashing any and everything that could possibly link them back to the cylons makes sense with that mentality.

I also like the robots at the end, keeps in theme that everything has happened before, and it will happen again. Depressing, but interesting that they cannot break the cycle.

Gabe_Lewis · 2009-03-29T19:49:23.000Z

RDM:

The image of the bird was just than – an image. I had no idea what it meant or symbolized, but just saw this picture of a man (didn’t even know it was Lee) trying to chase a bird out of his house with a broom. We put it up on the board and then folded it into the story of Lee without trying to define exactly what it meant. I still don’t know exactly what it meant. I don’t want to.

Also, has this guy not watched Six Feet Under? That exact image is featured prominently in one of the last couple episodes. Except the dude kills the bird and dumps it in the bin.
Anyway, I thought it was a shitty ending to a shitty last season. A turd hat to wear for the toilet party.
When it ended I started singing the song from the Planet of the Apes musical in the Simpsons:

“Oh my god! I was wrong. It was Earth, all along - they finally made a monkey - yes we finally made a monkey - yes you finally made a monkey out of me!”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVr1n1ha-LA&feature=related

Brad_Grenz · 2009-03-30T00:02:38.000Z

“I love you, Dr Zaeus!”

dermot · 2009-03-30T01:02:25.000Z

I hate every chimp I see
From chimpanzay to chimpanzee
No, you’ll never make a money out of me!

Woolen_Horde · 2009-03-30T18:10:26.000Z

The alternate ending. I love the mock-up magazine.

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Ron Moore Throws Out Another Alternate BSG Ending

Still not happy with the dancing-robot montage that ended Battlestar Galactica, or just curious to know more? We've told you one way it could have gone, but RDM revealed yet another possible ending, involving Galactica.

Dave_Markell · 2009-03-30T18:58:04.000Z

It’s cute, but as a multi-decade Geographic reader, I can assure you that its tone is way too snarky for verisimilitude.

dermot · 2009-03-31T02:02:30.000Z

Scientists discover remains of ancient starship, complete with fossilised human remains and what appear to be sentient robotic machines; salvage operation ensues and engineers are able to replicate some of the sentient robot tech. Fade to black.

Instead we got fucking dancing robots.

nixon66 · 2009-03-31T12:59:48.000Z

dermot:

Scientists discover remains of ancient starship, complete with fossilised human remains and what appear to be sentient robotic machines; salvage operation ensues and engineers are able to replicate some of the sentient robot tech. Fade to black.
.

Cue ominous Terminator sounding music…

Pogo · 2009-03-31T22:59:16.000Z

I think everyone ripping apart all the nuances of the show sucks donkey ass.

Great series finale.

Gabe_Lewis · 2009-04-01T18:03:04.000Z

Here’s a good one http://www.theonion.com/content/news/obama_depressed_distant_since

Kyle_Wilson · 2009-04-02T13:20:11.000Z

Pogo:

I think… the show sucks donkey ass.

Well, I don’t know if I’d go that far, but you’ve certainly got an argument.

Nawid_A · 2009-04-04T16:37:20.000Z

After much thought, I think the show is still in my Top 5 of all time (along with Lost, The Wire, and The Shield) because at it’s highs it was just amazing. The best part of the whole deal was probably the amazing work of Bear McCreary. I’m going to try and make the next BSG concert.

Hanacker · 2009-04-20T15:18:37.000Z

Just got caught up on BSG this weekend. A couple things I wasn’t clear on:

Do Cylons age? I didn’t think they did, but then there’s talk here and there about them dying natural deaths. And the ones at the end seemed to feel mortal.

Why couldn’t Starbuck have just entered in the jump coordinates for Earth before the raid (or before Hera got kidnapped)? Was the entire point of everything that happened after the decision to jump to the Cylon colony just to cause enough stress in Starbuck so she could figure out how to jump to Earth? I guess I could buy that they needed to get Hera back because the Cylons might use her to repopulate and come back to kill humanity after eventually discovering Earth.

They painted themselves into a corner with all the metaphysical stuff and I guess that was as good of an ending as we could have hoped for.

XPav · 2009-04-20T22:10:28.000Z

I think jump coordinates are relative.

Well, anyway, that explains it pretty easily, so lets go with that.

russellmz00 · 2009-04-20T22:27:56.000Z

Hanacker:

Why couldn’t Starbuck have just entered in the jump coordinates for Earth before the raid (or before Hera got kidnapped)? Was the entire point of everything that happened after the decision to jump to the Cylon colony just to cause enough stress in Starbuck so she could figure out how to jump to Earth?

she didn’t know the numbers/pattern hera did were specifically earth’s coordinates. so yeah, only during the stress of imminent destruction when adama ordered a jump anywhere did she try the magic coordinates.

Woolen_Horde · 2009-04-22T15:07:24.000Z

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Zylon · 2009-04-22T16:48:28.000Z

Geeze, just when I’d almost managed to completely forget BSG.

Hanacker · 2009-04-22T18:45:31.000Z

There’s no option for just Season 1 in Blu-Ray? I don’t think I’d want to rewatch the rest.