Also this was a hugely female centric show. It’s a chick movie. Personally I’m not offended or turned off by that. Sense and Sensibility is one of my favorite films. But here, every man is a dickless wonder being lead around or fooled by a woman. Commander Adama sometimes gets to do something but usually his solution is to send in Starbuck.
It’s BSG meets The Mists of Avalon.
Quoth Lightray:
That, and when they’re looking for the Tomb of Athena, Sharon (ironically, the same Sharon who would later go by the callsign “Athena”) says something to the effect of “Oh, they exist, they’re just not gods”.
I thought it was awful. From the way the reviews of the last season went, most people agree with me. The damn Cylons are singing the song subconsciously. Why!?!?
Personally, I think it was quite possibly the most awesome thing in the history of television. But then, I also love the sing-along scene in Magnolia, too.
It just shows that Bob Dylan really is God.
Every frackin word out of Colonel Tigh’s mouth was comedy gold. I’d watch a show about that dude organizing his stamp collection.
The writers of BSG boned their audience, pure and simple. They strung everybody along with intriguing plot twists that promised big payoffs, and then abandoned almost every story line. They abdicated. They wrote themselves into corners and then threw their hands up in the air. For all that the body of the series was captivating, the ending was reprehensible.
Everyone complains about every arc/mythology heavy show that the setup was more interesting than the reveal. It ain’t just BSG.
It’s interesting that there are four hidden cylons on the fleet. Omigod, who are they? What is their purpose? Except when you find out their identity it HAS to be a letdown, because knowing the mystery destroys the mystery. The answer can never be as interesting as the question.
Maybe the producers should have asked David Lynch or J.J. Abrams how they managed to wrap up Twin Peaks and Lost* in such a way as to leave everyone 100% of satisfied.
*respectively
Don’t forget Chris Carter and his X-Files!
I lost interest about halfway through the series.
Did they turn out to actually have a plan?
There was a plan. The usual suspects complained about it too, just as they complained about the finale, the religious stuff, etc., etc.
The Plan:
[spoiler]Cylon Number One, John, has “mommy issues” and is irritated that he’s been stuck in the old guy body of Dean Stockwell, instead of some transhuman superrobot body or something. His Plan is to destroy all humans and therefore make his mommy see they’re not worth it and so she’ll love him.
He mindwiped the Final Five because they would have stopped him, then he bamboozled the other Cylons into destroying all humans. The Plan went awry because the other Cylons realized it was bunk, basically. And mommy didn’t end up loving him, either.[/spoiler]
Turned out that The Plan was a bit more pathetic than everyone had assumed it was.
She wasn’t that competent. And she was only about a six. (Ironically Six was at least a ten).
Eh, Six was a solid Seven. Eight was a Ten. All of her were.
I just couldn’t get past the first episode of the miniseries. First I get a tiny glimpse of action and then I am led into a gargantuan cast with way to many problems (Daddy-Son; Government-Military; Cancer(?);…) and so on. And before I had a decent fight scene I already had several love scenes and so on and on and on…
I gave it a chance because some board posted it as No. 1 SciFi Series of all time. But please. I don’t think anything goes above TNG. At least I can watch it with some irony. This whole BSG is taking itself way too seriously. You will never find enough good actors to star in a General Hospital/Babylon 5 Crossover with some spicy real life cam in it.
Unfortunately I can’t go into detail about what really pissed me off most. But mostly it was this wannabe seriousness that a show of that format can’t provide.
They just never should have cancelled Space 2063.
Starbuck? Not competent?
Huh?
She was generally acknowledged as the best fighter pilot in the rag-tag fleet. No slouch at hand-to-hand combat or small unit infantry tactics, either. Also did a reasonable job as CAG. Did show poor judgment as a flight instructor, and had some behavior issues…but she knew her shit, and was damned good at what she did.
Lots of things go above TNG.
The OP must HATE Crown of Thorns!
Crown of Thorns, or Game of Thrones? 
The problem with X-Files isn’t that they did not wrap it up well. It’s that Carter wrapped it up in a somewhat anticlimactic (but still workable) manner, then the series went on for two more seasons.