WARNING! ***SPOILERS*** ahead. Read at your own discretion.
It’s the end and I’m so sad. You know, they could have stretched it out for one more season to fully explain things and resolve some issues- not to mention please the thousands, if not millions, of fanatics of BSG- but in the end, I guess the finale was satisfying enough for most fans. But on to the highlights and lowlights of the final show. (This will not be a long drawn out post with paragraphs upon paragraphs, but more in highlight form for easier reading. I’ll spare you the pain of those documents.)
THE EMOTIONAL, CHOKING UP MOMENTS
- Seeing the Galactica being pummeled by enemy fire when the ship jumped to the Cylon colony. Brutal!
- Seeing the Old Girl “break her back.” Brutal on a whole other level!
- Kara’s goodbye to Sam and Sam saying “See you on the other side.” He knew where she was going to end up. Harsh!
- Sam, the fleet and the Old Girl’s death flight to the sun. Heartbreaking.
- Husker’s last flight around the Galactica. Lump in my throat.
- Galen choosing to live in solitary “happiness.” Empathy.
- Lee realizing that Kara was gone forever. Unfair.
- Bill’s goodbye to Lee & Kara; Laura’s passing. Teardrops.
- Knowing that every time Bill looks at the sun, he’ll think of Laura and the Old Girl, who died there. Waterfalls.
*Sigh* On to something less sad….
THE SMILING HIGHLIGHTS
- Baltar…in SWAT gear! Bwahahaha
- Jake the dog was back! (with Romo Lamkin as the new president)
- Old school Centurions in the fight
- Hoshi being made Admiral (I thought he was going to do something drastic since he was Gaeta’s BF, but that story was only developed in the webisodes and not the series)
- The cool-looking, red slash-marked, good-guy Centurions marching and fighting with the Galactica’s crew. Yay!
- Tigh’s close-mouthed laugh. (You can’t help to laugh with him. He was my favorite character and I’m going to miss him. *sniffle*)
- Baltar’s trigger happy finger shooting off too many rounds at Apollo and them in the corridor. Then he nonchalantly says, “Sorry ’bout that.” Wehehehe
On to more fulfilling moments…
THE SATISFACTIONS
- Boomer making that choice; the right choice. Her payment back to the Old Man. Her quick death by Athena. (If you think about it, if Boomer didn’t kidnap Hera, they would of never gone after her and the Cylon colony would still exist. Kara would have never realized at the perfect moment, when the Galactica had one last jump in her, that that important Cylon song held the key to bring everyone home. Fitting.)
- Baltar’s babble finally paid off somehow; well, he did help to save the human race, didn’t he? And he was able to save Hera from Cavil.
- So Cavil survives and the bad skinjobs get resurrection technology. *groan* They’re all just going to get along…..PSYCH!! I’m glad it didn’t end that way!
- Tory is strangled to death by Galen! We didn’t like her anyway, even before finding out she was a Cylon and working on the good side.
- Cavil ate a bullet! It’s about time.
- A dead Racetrack was somehow jostled to nuke the whole Cylon colony. Great aim there!
- That it didn’t end bleakly. They actually found Earth (Earth #2, Non-Fake Earth) and got to live out their lives on solid ground. Wasn’t it a beautiful Earth too? Gorgeous landscapes.
- The good Centurions were trusted and granted freedom to live out their own destinies. I don’t think they would ever come back to cause destruction again.
- To know that Saul & Ellen’s love for each other lasted through everything and will continue to last. (Cylons age and eventually die, right? I remember Adama telling Tigh when he remember when Tigh had hair. So they do age but do they die? Or will Tigh and Ellen live forever?)
- The Agathon family together; Helo didn’t die! Half-breed Hera happily had her mommy and daddy to raise her.
On to the unsatisfying issues….
THE LETDOWNS
- I’ll get to Kara in a minute!….
- Strippers as the first image on the finale. Come on! Where are the male strippers that were supposed to be there also because it was a unisex club. It was written, you know. Sexist!
- They didn’t have to be so graphic with Bill’s vomit scene. Gross.
- We never got to see the real Sam come back (well, only in the flashback). If I knew he would always remain in his hybrid state, I would have savored the last moment when Sam was not a “talking vegetable.”
- I would have like to see Laura sailing on that ship, while her family waited for her at the shore. But then we’d have to see Starbuck and Sam on the other side too, right? What about Boomer? Does she get to go to heaven too? Do Cylons go to the same heaven as humans? It’s all just complicated.
- The explanation of the opera house was a complete LETDOWN. I thought being an opera house had some sort of significance, maybe with the Cylon song or something. And how did Athena and Laura get conveniently locked out of the corridor. Yeah right! I remember long ago when Six was talking to Baltar, she kept referring to Hera as “our daughter”, but there was no explanation for that.
- That Apollo and Starbuck’s relationship will never be. Was it all forbidden? I know she loved Sam but didn’t you think that she truly belonged with Apollo? There they were in that beautiful field with each other, finally about to live a normal life together when poof- she disappears and leaves Lee all by himself. What the frak! For me, that was the biggest letdown.
- I still don’t get why Bill was saying his final goodbye to Lee, like he was never coming back. And why not? Bill knew he was going to lose the love of his life and why wouldn’t he want to see his only remaining blood relative on Earth and continue a long relationship with him? There was no, “Ok son, I’ll see you next weekend.” I just didn’t get that. And I seriously thought that when Bill was in the raptor with Laura when she died, that he was going to purposely crash just to join her in heaven. When he said, “Right there. That’s where I’m going to build it,” I thought *BOOM!* I thought that’s why he was saying goodbye to Lee and Kara the way he did. I guess I took that the wrong way.
- And finally the question of, “What the frak is Starbuck if she’s not some special Cylon?” An angel. Ok, so she’s an angel. Has she always been an angel from the beginning or only after her Viper exploded? Remember when she came back alive and told Lee that she had been to Earth and was going to take them there? Well, that “Earth” where her dead body was found turned out to be “Fake Earth” because now they had found the “Real Earth.” Why is her body on “Fake Earth”, that nuked-up “Earth?” Maybe I’m missing something but can someone explain? Or is it just some writing flaw? You know that this show was put together helter-skelter and things sometimes just fell into place. Hell, they didn’t even know that Boomer was going to be a Cylon in the first show! They didn’t know who the Final Five were going to be. That’s why Nicky, Callie and Galen’s baby, had to be really the son of Hot Dog, because they couldn’t have another significant half-human half-Cylon baby like Hera. Alright, I’m off on a tangent again…
- Back to Starbuck, it was a very unsatisfying, ambigous, disappointing “explanation” of her story. And her relationship with Leoben was left unresolved. No closure there either. You’d think that the main character of this show would have special attention but it’s just left up in the air, like the way she just vanished in front of Lee. (Poor Lee.) That’s why I feel this show should have been on for another season, so that Kara’s story could be better explored and explained. I feel cheated.
LAST THOUGHTS
I will surely miss this amazing cast, the theme song, the work “Frak” being said, the characters, the Centurions, and even Jake the dog. I still get to look forward to No Plan though, and the new series Caprica. So even if Battlestar Galactica has flown into the sun, maybe another star of a show will arise. Until then, we’ll just need to turn to our DVD players for a quick fix of BSG.
I only started watching Battlestar Galactica last year on DVD. I had heard how great the show was but I admit that I was skeptical and thought it was going to be a sci-fi, Trekkie show…with aliens. Not so. I was sucked in from the very first episode and realized it was a drama set in space. Sure, the action was cool also (great CGI for a television show), not to mention the thrills, chills, mysteries, relationships, Lee shirtless, glowing Cylon spines, and the humor. I think it’s a show that we all can look back on 30 or more years from now and say that was one of the best shows of that era. Despite it’s flaws, it was a damn frakking good show, wasn’t it? So say we all!
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