# Battlestar Galactica finale redux
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-finale-redux/513616
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [October 13, 2009, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-finale-redux/513616 "2009-10-13T02:50:53Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2009, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-finale-redux/513616/1 "2009-10-13T02:50:53Z")
I’ve whined that I hated it, and a couple of you agree. I wonder how bad it is.
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### Author:  [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2009, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-finale-redux/513616/2 "2009-10-13T03:04:56Z")
It was more rewarding than 90% of the OTHER finales I’ve seen.
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### Author:  [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2009, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-finale-redux/513616/3 "2009-10-13T03:31:50Z")
Moving thread from IMHO to Cafe Society.
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### Author:  [@Algorithm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Algorithm)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2009, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-finale-redux/513616/4 "2009-10-13T03:45:32Z")
I didn’t think it was _terrible_, just dumb.
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### Author:  [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2009, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-finale-redux/513616/5 "2009-10-13T05:49:10Z")
I thought it sucked. Throughout the entire series–with all the intrigue and the twists and turns regarding the cylons, the humans, and the hybrids–I trusted that the writers actually DID have a plan for how to tie it all together in a somewhat rational way. Instead, they apparently had written themselves into a corner and didn’t have a good way to neatly resolve all the big questions. So they waved their hands and said “God did it. Starbuck and Head Six are angels. Don’t think about it too much. Look! Adama’s crying! Again. Isn’t this all so emotional?! The End”
I will try not to waste my time watching any Ron Moore productions in the future.
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### Author:  [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2009, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-finale-redux/513616/6 "2009-10-13T07:34:07Z")
> [@Tangent](#):
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> "God did it. Starbuck and Head Six are angels. Don’t think about it too much. "
> .
To be fair, it’s not like you weren’t warned - Head Six had been saying that from the beginning of the series. Is the fact that a character was stating the simple truth such a big twist?
Personally, I realized early on that BSG, much like Star Wars, was a fantasy series set in space, so the fact that it had a fantasy-story resolution didn’t bother me at all. Still, while I enjoyed it, I think it could have been a little less heavy-handed
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### Author:  [@CutterJohn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CutterJohn)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2009, 8:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-finale-redux/513616/7 "2009-10-13T08:29:03Z")
I’d have been good without starbuck being an angel, and the crew abandoning all of their technology to live in mud huts so their children can die young and ignorant.
Also, disposing of the galactica, and other ships, rather than keeping them around. Great… they’ve just tossed all of their lessons away, and that which has happened before and will happen again most definitely WILL happen again because nobody knows not to do it again.
Sheesh… even if you must abandon tech, leave the galactica in orbit with a huge “Robot Slaves = Bad Idea. Trust us.” on it, so that when the time comes, we know.
Also, by abandoning everything you learned, and all of your culture, you pretty much didn’t survive. There were humans on earth already. The exodus was for nothing.
Great series, but I’d have ended on a completely different note.
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### Author:  [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2009, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-finale-redux/513616/8 "2009-10-13T11:25:49Z")
It sucked so badly that, having found my collections of BSG Season 1, 2, & 2.5 in the cupboard last weekend, I immediately put them all up for sale on Amazon Marketplace. Got $48 for the 3 of them. I was very happy with that, because I knew I’d never watch them again as the finale sucked so badly that I could never NOT be thinking of it.
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### Author:  [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2009, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-finale-redux/513616/9 "2009-10-13T12:59:01Z")
Loved it. Sorry to disagree. It was a gutsy peice of filmmaking that wrapped things up nicely.
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### Author:  [@Terraplane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terraplane)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2009, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-finale-redux/513616/10 "2009-10-13T12:59:01Z")
I thought it was pretty bad. Disappearing/reappearing angel Starbuck was just silly, everybody abandoning everything to be hunter gatherers was silly (seriously, NOBODY thought this might be a bad idea?). Baltar not falling into a pit of salty broken glass was a huge let down. The good parts of the show were really good but the bad parts were so goofy it just made the overall experience disappointing.
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2009, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-finale-redux/513616/11 "2009-10-13T13:17:00Z")
> [@omgzebras](#):
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> Baltar not falling into a pit of salty broken glass was a huge let down.
**YES! YES!**
Ahem. Sorry.
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### Author:  [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2009, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-finale-redux/513616/12 "2009-10-13T13:39:56Z")
Not entirely bad (actually voted “pretty good”). The only problem I had was the lack of wildlife in the finale. You know, having the child wander off and get bitten by a venomous snake, followed by Baltar and Six running over only to get taken down by a pride of lions…
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### Author:  [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2009, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-finale-redux/513616/13 "2009-10-13T13:51:25Z")
I think the denoument was okay. I didn’t enjoy the finale as much as [any random episode from the series,] but it fit well enough.
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### Author:  [@AndyPolley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AndyPolley)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2009, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-finale-redux/513616/14 "2009-10-13T13:52:32Z")
OK, I could have gone for a better Starbuck resolution, but overall I loved it. I can’t get crazy about the realism of our heroes giving up tech in an established universe that has mythical visions, magical arrows that create space maps, cylon tech that defies logic (stick a cable in your _arm_ Athena?) and lots of other non-real bits (endless cigerettes for all!) so I was able to roll with that. I still didn’t get a real answer to the question of other surviving cylons. Might there be other Cavils back at the original 12 colonies? There were problems, but there are always problems.
The Beauty of BSG has always been about the journey. At the end of the series, we got to look back on the journey’s beginning, and how it brought them to another journey’s beginning. It was stunning. I’ve been re-watching the series on Blu-Ray and I’m actually shocked at how much of the groundwork for the finale was laid throughout the series. Did they plan it all? Hell no, but it’s clear that Moore & Co. took notes on the stuff that they did show us and managed to bring it mostly together at the end.
Galactica ramming the colony? Awesome. Roslin’s walk across the line in the hanger? Gut Wrenching. All of the little glimpses of Caprica before the fall? Delicious. Cavil’s suicide? The hits just kept coming. The finale just went all over the place in a very cool way. Even more so in the extended DVD version, which actually had a Cally scene (for us Cally fans…am I the only Cally fan?) that brought home the scene where Chief snapped Torey’s neck…which was also freakin’ awesome.
The finale itself needed a few Leoben scenes, and I would have liked the previous episode to wrap the Starbuck story a little more definitively, but overall I loved the finale. Was it perfect? No. Has there been a better wrap up to a long running sci-fi series? Not many. I’d be interested in hearing opinions on the matter.
At the time I thought it ranked a 7.5 out of 10. With re-watching, the grade goes up to 8.5.
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### Author:  [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2009, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-finale-redux/513616/15 "2009-10-13T14:08:54Z")
I’m watching it on DVD right now and we just got to the spot where they landed on Earth.
Don’t spoil it for me! I’m not listening la la la la la la!
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2009, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-finale-redux/513616/16 "2009-10-13T14:12:01Z")
My lips are sealed.
🙂
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2009, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-finale-redux/513616/17 "2009-10-13T14:52:15Z")
Loved it. Everybody who complained about the spiritualism can go dive into a black hole.
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### Author:  [@HelloKitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HelloKitty)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2009, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-finale-redux/513616/18 "2009-10-13T15:18:41Z")
I was disappointed in how they wrapped up the Starbuck angle, but overall I really liked it.
I miss watching new episodes, what a ride the whole series was, from mini-series to finale!
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### Author:  [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2009, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-finale-redux/513616/19 "2009-10-13T15:33:42Z")
Adored it.
Actually, it was as near as perfect as one can get. Only Babylon 5 came close to having an equal finale.
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### Author:  [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2009, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-finale-redux/513616/20 "2009-10-13T15:50:33Z")
It was perfect.
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