BSG Finale

[LoranC]

Not sure where to put this topic, so I thought I'd play it safe. 

I know it's been a while since Cain's presence graced the set of BSG, but it is a great show and now it has come to an end.  For now. ;)

Any thoughts/comments/rants on Daybreak 2?  In an interview Ron D Moore gave, he mentioned that he focused more on the characters than the plot in the finale.  And while it is true that you can drive trucks through the plot holes, I found most of the characters were given the closure they deserved.  I was particlularly touched by the goodbye scene (or lack thereof) between Kara and Lee.  I was never a fan of Adama and Roslin, but even hearing him talk about the cabin he would now build for them earned a tear or two from me.  Ok, more like a bucket full.  I was happy to see that Baltar's worse nightmare finally came true - he's gonna spend the rest of his life as a farm boy again!  Yee haw!  Granted, it appears that he still gets the girl, so it can't be all  bad.

Makes me wish that Cain and Gina had a happy ending somewhere on earth too.  That would have made it perfect.  Sigh.

[mandala]

I thought it was a brilliant ending. I loved that Hera was Mitochondrial Eve. After all the fuss over the kid, her being ME seems like (to me) a more organic explination of exactly why she's so special, especialy when you compare it to shows where "special" means some sort of supernatural ability. I am an Adama/Roslin shipper and I don't think they could have given them a more perfect ending than they did. Of course, that could just be me being relieved that they didn't have Cavil kill Roslin and Athena during the Opera House scene. I was satisfied with how they handled the end of Kara's story arch, mostly because I'd have hated anything else. 

That being said, I wasn't exactly impressed with the vast amount of female characters who were sacraficed to the gods of plot. Tory didn't have to die, and even if she did, it didn't have to be done in such a mysogonistic way.

[LoranC]

Yeah, Kara disappearing that like was very much in character, even in the afterlife.  No longwinded tearful goodbye, just a quiet vanish into thin air when Lee wasn't looking.  I thought it was perfect.

As for Tory, I was happy to see her go. I could never understand how she could contribute in any meaningful way to "the plan" the final five concocted to end the cycle of destruction between humans and cylons.  Maybe she fronted the cash for the project? :)

Anyways, I'm going to miss that show....even if the character and main reason for my watching it technically died in season 2.5. :)  or rather,

[mandala]

As for Tory, I was happy to see her go. I could never understand how she could contribute in any meaningful way to "the plan" the final five concocted to end the cycle of destruction between humans and cylons.  Maybe she fronted the cash for the project? :)

Anyways, I'm going to miss that show....even if the character and main reason for my watching it technically died in season 2.5. :)  or rather,

Well it was said that Tory *did* contribute to resurrection. We never really got to delve very far into the final five anyway, outside Saul and Ellen. They were all apparently the smartest people that evolved on that planet though, so I think she did more than front the cash. You know, I find it hilarious how easy it was for Rekah to get everyone to hate Tory :P 

Anyway, don't get me wrong, I'm totally cool with her getting payback for killing Cally. Still, having Cally avenged by the guy who beat the crap out of her and said he never loved her took alot out of the revenge for me. Plus, having the character who literaly killed his own wife praising Tyrol for choking-a-Tory did not sit well with me at all. Neither did the large volume of women that died in the end.

Heh, I do know what you mean with that one. I was hoping that they would discover that everyone was part cylon and that anyone who died during the course of the show had downloaded to some random planet, Gina and Cain reconciled their differences since we last saw them (OMG the amount of therapy that would involve), and puppies and rainbows abound.  Dork? Me? Nah.

[Randy]

This comes a good while after...

But I have rarely been hooked to a series, as I was hooked to BSG and likewise surprised, touched, and wonderfully entertained by the finale.

I usually feel that kids are involved into some great master-plan way too often, that the world is saved through birth/creation and then everyone lives happy ever after. WIth BSG it was different. Hera had a real purpose. It ended up being so much about music, which I loved.

Starbuck too. Nothing too cheesy...

...and the shole going-back-to-the-roots, the primitive earth was just startling, and something i could identify with. I felt like Tyrol, just going off and cultivating the land for my own.

...and Roslin and Adama...it is rare that a movie, let alone tv brings tears to my eyes, but that scene did. And it was anything but exagerrated.