# Battlestar Galactica Finale Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 20, 2009, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-finale-thread/490206 "2009-03-20T19:33:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2009, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-finale-thread/490206/61 "2009-03-21T03:10:41Z")
So what questions got answers? ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2009, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-finale-thread/490206/62 "2009-03-21T03:11:23Z")
So Hera is mother of us all? 😃 OK, it got _alot_ better in the last few minutes. Pretty obvious cameo for Ron. So, will all this happen again? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2009, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-finale-thread/490206/63 "2009-03-21T03:11:47Z")
Well, _that_ was dissapointing, what an anticlimactic ending to a once-great show the Kara thread was left unresolved time to get those DVDs melting down there, **'Plant** ---
**Author:** ![Lightray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightray/32/391_2.png) [@Lightray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightray)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2009, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-finale-thread/490206/64 "2009-03-21T03:13:48Z")
Nah, the Kara thread was not left unresolved. She was the same thing as the angels which Gaius and Caprica had been seeing. She just didn’t realize it until she was gone. LOVED the finale. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2009, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-finale-thread/490206/65 "2009-03-21T03:15:07Z")
> [@alphaboi867](#): > > What happened to **Cervaise**? This is the second BSG thread in a row he’s missed (& the last ever). Pssst… over [here](http://domebo.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=1242) ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2009, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-finale-thread/490206/66 "2009-03-21T03:15:20Z")
> [@MacTech](#): > > Well, _that_ was dissapointing, what an anticlimactic ending to a once-great show > the Kara thread was left unresolved > > time to get those DVDs melting down there, **'Plant** Jesus Christ on a fucking crutch that sucked. All I wanted was to see the villain, Baltar who sold out the human race and made the Cylon victory possible, to die a horrible, lingering death. But he came out on top. 150,000 years later. Fuck Ron Moore. ---
**Author:** ![Skara\_Brae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f0a364/32.png) [@Skara\_Brae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skara_Brae)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2009, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-finale-thread/490206/67 "2009-03-21T03:15:23Z")
Okay, I really liked that little last scene in NYC…everything else, not so much. ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2009, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-finale-thread/490206/68 "2009-03-21T03:15:34Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Did the fleet fly into the sun to hide their location from the Cylons? You see, Capricans were the predecessor of today’s Poles. They were just exploring, and attempted a landing on the sun. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2009, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-finale-thread/490206/69 "2009-03-21T03:18:17Z")
It was the equivalent of Cortez burning his ships. ---
**Author:** ![Lightray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightray/32/391_2.png) [@Lightray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightray)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2009, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-finale-thread/490206/70 "2009-03-21T03:19:26Z")
> [@KneadToKnow](#): > > It was the equivalent of Cortez burning his ships. Exactly. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2009, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-finale-thread/490206/71 "2009-03-21T03:19:57Z")
The same thing happened in TOS after the 12 Tribes arrived on the Colonies; they destroyed their ships and all their technology. ---
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2009, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-finale-thread/490206/72 "2009-03-21T03:21:20Z")
I don’t think there’s any way the finale could’ve lived up to the expectations so many people pinned on it. Like the Star Wars series, it started with a bang, got even better, and then went downhill, mostly by comparison though. I’m satisfied. Could it have been better? Sure. But what we got was good enough. ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2009, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-finale-thread/490206/73 "2009-03-21T03:22:41Z")
Spectacular ending. ---
**Author:** ![nivlac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3bc359/32.png) [@nivlac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nivlac)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2009, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-finale-thread/490206/74 "2009-03-21T03:22:54Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Jesus Christ on a fucking crutch that sucked. > > All I wanted was to see the villain, Baltar who sold out the human race and made the Cylon victory possible, to die a horrible, lingering death. > But he came out on top. 150,000 years later. > > Fuck Ron Moore. No, that was not _ **THE** _ Baltar. That was the “angel” Baltar. And yes, Kara was also one of these angels or emissaries of the gods. But can someone explain to me how Laura got on the Cylon ship where all the shooting was taking place? It looked like she was working in Galactica’s sickbay, then she started wandering off and ended up finding Hera on the Cylon baseship. Huh? ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2009, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-finale-thread/490206/75 "2009-03-21T03:23:27Z")
Good enough? It was outstanding. I pity those who didn’t enjoy it. The series wasn’t about technology. It was about people, and the voyage they were on. And it wrapped that up quite nicely. ---
**Author:** ![Rubystreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Rubystreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubystreak)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2009, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-finale-thread/490206/76 "2009-03-21T03:24:45Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Jesus Christ on a fucking crutch that sucked. > > All I wanted was to see the villain, Baltar who sold out the human race and made the Cylon victory possible, to die a horrible, lingering death. > But he came out on top. 150,000 years later. > > Fuck Ron Moore. It’s not a John Wayne movie. You don’t have to have the Good Guys Win/Bad Guys Die ending for it not to suck. Baltar, like Judas, was playing the role he had to play in a plan that was bigger than him. The plan, like God (I know, It doesn’t like that name), is beyond good and evil, so maybe Baltar is too. Even if he’s not, well, things don’t always end pat, with all scores settled. Sometimes they just end. ---
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2009, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-finale-thread/490206/77 "2009-03-21T03:25:06Z")
> [@nivlac](#): > > No, that was not _ **THE** _ Baltar. That was the “angel” Baltar. And yes, Kara was also one of these angels or emissaries of the gods. > > But can someone explain to me how Laura got on the Cylon ship where all the shooting was taking place? It looked like she was working in Galactica’s sickbay, then she started wandering off and ended up finding Hera on the Cylon baseship. Huh? Uhm, no. She found Hera on Galactica. After Helo was hit and Athena was putting a tourniquet on his leg, Hera ran off, scared. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2009, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-finale-thread/490206/78 "2009-03-21T03:25:29Z")
> [@nivlac](#): > > …But can someone explain to me how Laura got on the Cylon ship where all the shooting was taking place? It looked like she was working in Galactica’s sickbay, then she started wandering off and ended up finding Hera on the Cylon baseship. Huh? She was on Galactica the whole time; the Cylons boarded her. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2009, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-finale-thread/490206/79 "2009-03-21T03:26:03Z")
YOU MANIACS!!! DAMN YOU!! DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL!!! Allright, maybe it was just a little hit or miss. I don’t mind a bit of mysticism, but did it have to be so overt? Disappearing Kara Thrace. WTF. Getting rid of the ships and starting over more or less made sense. How much longer was that crap going to last anyway? Chief going ape shit on Tori. Classic. I found Tigh’s “I’d do the same thing” comment a little ironic. > [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Jesus Christ on a fucking crutch that sucked. > > All I wanted was to see the villain, Baltar who sold out the human race and made the Cylon victory possible, to die a horrible, lingering death. > But he came out on top. 150,000 years later. He didn’t do it on purpose.:rolleyes: And it was nice to see Baltar end up not on the side of douchery for once. And he got to get back in touch with his farmer roots. ---
**Author:** ![Lightray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightray/32/391_2.png) [@Lightray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightray)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2009, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-finale-thread/490206/80 "2009-03-21T03:26:12Z")
> [@nivlac](#): > > But can someone explain to me how Laura got on the Cylon ship where all the shooting was taking place? It looked like she was working in Galactica’s sickbay, then she started wandering off and ended up finding Hera on the Cylon baseship. Huh? That was still Galactica they were wandering through, currently being invaded by Cylons. It was being intercut with their Dream of the Opera House, so sort of confusing – but in the dream, she’s wearing different clothes (and her own hair, of course). I think that we’re going to find that the like/loathe divide over the finale will match up to whether someone thought they’d been watching a sci-fi soap opera or a sci-fi action adventure, all these years. 'Cause this was all about the _characters_ receiving a satsifying conclusion, and not so much about a satisfying conclusion to the action. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-finale-thread/490206.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-finale-thread/490206.md?page=5)