Great show but not satisfy with the ending. I prefer Hera being the sole survival ended up on planet earth that we know of. Being a child it will be more of a clean slate and it will also reinforce her importance on the whole scheme of things.
One way for that to happen, they could easily have the BSG exploded killing everybody there, shortly after their final jump, but perhaps before explosion, someone could have put Hera on some pod that ended on Earth. As for the rest of the fleets, they were lost in contact forever. That would be a better ending and scrap all that monotheistic angel crap and have Baltar died in some horrible death.
So you’re going to have one little four-year-old girl, in a pod, on Earth, by herself. That’s going to make for an uplifting ending, sure. 10 bucks says she dies in a week.
I don’t yet know what changes I would want to make. I do know that the ending seemed too much of a Disney/Happy ending. Baltar espouses and Cavil doesn’t just shoot him when he starts his first syllable?
The ending holds together, but only because the undefined Beings of Light have interfered and given hints. Why is it that everything has to make sense only through ineffable means?
I think I would have liked more to die striving for their goals and living their convictions. It still doesn’t make sense to have taken the greatest military protection the fleet has to go on what is a suicide mission.
After the scene with Lee in the field, Starbuck finds herself in a map room, standing on a globe and all the characters from the series, living and dead, tell her “Congratulations!”.
Oh, you wanted to know how it should have ended. Sorry.
I actually was fairly satisfied with the ending. I personally would have done without the 150,000 year coda(and the toy robots), and ended it with Adama on the mountaintop, tightened up the pacing just a little bit, made it feel less like the end of LoTR, but no major changes.
Umm…because there would have been a firefight in which he and his people would have been wiped out. Oh, wait, THAT’S EXACTLY WHAT (eventually) HAPPENED.
He was holding Hera hostage. He shoots Baltar and then Cavil dies.
I mentioned some of these in another thread, but they are worth repeating…well…to me and my warped mind.
Star Wars Ending
Head Six, Head Baltar and Starbuck appear Annakin/Yoda/Obi Wan style to Apollo and wave goodbye
Titanic ending
Adama dies, the scene fades to him walking into the CIC where every dead character is squeezed in waiting to great him. Laura is there and they embrace Jack and Rose style.
Scooby Doo ending
Starbuck pulls off her face and it’s Cavill. I would have gotten away with it too if it wasn’t for you medling humans.
Disney ending
The main cast runs singing through the fields of Earth surrounded by cartoon bluebirds and shit.
Saving Private Ryan ending
Baltar, Six and Hera escape in the last remaining Raptor to Earth. Adama tells Baltar to “earn this” as Galactica and Cylon ship explode.
Star Trek ending
Of all the Cylons…he was the most…human
V: The Final Battle Ending
Hera uses her magic Star Child powers to absorb the radiation from the Cylon colonies self destruct mechanism, saving everyone.
Tarantino Ending
Everyone kills each other during the final standoff in the CIC.
I think it ended just about exactly as it should have. They got a happy ending. Everybody dies.
And all the stuff they’d been saying had been going on all along, turns out to have been going on all along. It was a fake-fakeout. That was left with just the right amount of ambiguity.
It is the rest of the stuff that should have been more ambiguous. All the goofy fans are obsessing over nits to pick, about abandoning technology, or other crap. All irrelevant to what was important about the finale:
Everybody got a happy ending. Then they died. The end.
I’m not saying that you haven’t, in this post, conclusively proven yourself to be a better writer than the team that has produced four years of one of the best television shows in recent memory, but I will say that I’ll stick with what we were given, thanks anyway.
I’m not even sure that Cavil got a bad ending. After all, life was pretty much one constant aggravation to him. And he got rid of his aggravation on his own terms. No worse than the end that Galen took for himself.
D’Anna kinda got a suck ending, but not in the finale.
That actually could have worked, but I would still have flash forwarded 150K years to the present day. However instead of Baltar & Six it could just be a random college professor lecturing about Mitochondrial Eve. Then cut to the robot montage.
But it showed definitively, 100%, that the Head People weren’t just figments of Six’s and Baltar’s imaginations. They were really, truly, external beings.
I thought the ending was about the best that could be done with the implication throughout the series that Hera was “special” in some way, and resolving the visions of Baltar and Six. (“Special” considering the original meaning of the word, not that she rode on the short yellow Raptor to school.)
How I would have ended it: they land in the Earth of 12,000-15,000 years BCE, on a large island in the Atlantic Ocean. Humans are on the planet, but they’re still tribal. The BSG humans and Cylons settle the island, bringing their technology with them. It turns out the island is Atlantis.
Who would have guessed that the Galactica was the “B Ark” with all the middle managers, telephone sanitizers and other unnecesary folks? All it needed was for someone to realize that the answer to all their problems was “42.”
I thought the ending was good, too. I wish the writers were able to come up with a more satisfying end for Starbuck though. Perhaps she gets mortally wounded during the CIC fight but manages to jump Galactica. On her death bed, she can give her speech to Lee and tell him she’s not coming back this time. I’m not really a writer, but I think something like that would be more satisfying then Starbuck just disappearing.
I’m of two minds about the coda. I thought it was fun, and give a nice explanation point on the importance of Hera, but the robot montage wasn’t that great. And like I said in the other thread, I thought Adama looking over his valley was a great shot to end the series with.
But then the dingos would eat her and Athena would have to talk with an Aussie accent.
I would’ve thought the pounding that the Galactica took from the Cylon’s colony ships mounted guns should’ve utterly destroyed her quickly, especially given the Fives’ slow response to getting Anders!Hackbot online.