Battlestar Galactica : The last episodes

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I wanted to know who/what the Lords of Kobol originally were
When Athena's leading them through the forest "we know far more about your religion than you do" - Frakking tell us then!

my thought was always that they were humans who were deified by their followers/descendants of their followers.

you're right though, it would have been nice to have this spelled out, although i suspect not spelling it out and getting everyone talking about it and guessing is the idea.

 

[Iguana]

although i suspect not spelling it out and getting everyone talking about it and guessing is the idea.

No, I think the idea was just to say some cool sounding stuff to make the viewers intrigued, but have absolutely no idea where to take it and then completely forget about it and hope the viewers do too.

I won't be able to re-watch all those fine early episodes now because I know all the cool stuff was just bullshit.

I know. It's taken the shine off my very favourite frakkin toasters t-shirt too.

 

[Agent Sparrow]

Actually, we're rewatching the earlier series for the second time (third time in total) and they're fine, apart from it being easier to spot inconsistencies and jumps in suspension of disbelief that we didn't notice at all on previous viewings.

On the escape from New Caprica atm which frankly is the highlight of the whole thing, if not TV ever.

 

[ruffneck23]

yeah i agree the first 4 episodes of season 3 are my favourite bits of tv ever

 

[andy2002]

yeah i agree the first 4 episodes of season 3 are my favourite bits of tv ever

Spoiler

They're almost too good because Ron Moore and David Eick never came close to matching them. I thought the finale was OK – I expected a huge blood-letting with lots of characters dying and was pleasantly surprised when we didn't get that. On the other hand, it's been obvious for quite some time that the writers had painted themselves into several corners plot-wise and that is certainly borne out by some of the final ep's ambiguity (Thrace's disappearance, Baltar/Six as "angels") which I found dissatisfying and lazy.

 

[Agent Sparrow]

Btw, has everyone seen the silly pages on the BSG wiki?

http://en.battlestarwiki.org/wiki/Category:Silly_Pages

"Beard of organised labour"

 

[DexterTCN]

Apollo is on Soccer AM just now. He's english.

 

[Iguana]

Apollo is on Soccer AM just now. He's english.

Yeah, he's from Hammersmith and used to be in Peak Practice. His dad is American which is probably why he can pull off a convincing accent. And Dr Cottle's nurse is his real life wife.

(I used to have a crush on Apollo until he turned into a big whiney baby.)

 

[pboi]

remember when him and starbuck duked it out in the ring? fuck that was epic

 

[Crispy]

That boxing episode was awful

 

[Iguana]

That boxing episode was awful

Yeah, my husband fell asleep during that episode. How I envied him.

 

[Fictionist]

I watched the final espisode again last night and was as impressed as I had been first time around. Given the mythology that generated around (and originated from within) the series it managed to conclude very well.

Which means I'll have to watch the whole thing on dvd again.

 

[DotCommunist]

Random BSG fact that entertained me: you see how papers, screens etc all had the corners cut off?

this is apparently in homage to the corner cutting that went on with the original series shoe-string budget

 

[obanite]

I liked it overall.

The religious side of it was fine with me, as they consistently dealt with it throughout the series - it wasn't some deus ex machina thrown in to escape, it was a recurring theme of the series.

One of the best things about the series was that although it was sci fi first, it covered lots of other subjects as well, in a very mature and interesting way - government & politics, society, mysticism & mythology, patriotism, etc. etc. Best TV series I've ever seen.

Some bits of the ending were a bit crap but overall it satisfied me; I was actually starting to get BSG fatigue - it had a plot arc so it needed to finish.

 

[Brainaddict]

I won't be able to re-watch all those fine early episodes now because I know all the cool stuff was just bullshit.

Yeah, it casts a bit of a shadow over the rest of the series. For a long time it seemed like a complex, well-plotted, multiple-storyline series with lots of interesting things going on, and now we know it's just a series of random events that the writers thought was cool and then didn't know how to tie up at the end.

I find it astonishing that with an entire series to wrap up the story they couldn't do better than this.

 

[alef]

Obama Depressed, Distant Since 'Battlestar Galactica' Series Finale

 

[SpookyFrank]

Obama Depressed, Distant Since 'Battlestar Galactica' Series Finale

How did I guess that was an Onion article before clicking the link?

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Heh thought exactly the same!

 

[Sunray]

How did I guess that was an Onion article before clicking the link?

Think about that line before the internet! How far we've come.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Heh thought exactly the same!

It's the comma used instead of 'and' that does it. To my eternal delight I have discovered that US news media actually do write stuff like that.

 

[pboi]

new BSG special

sex me up

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

new BSG special

sex me up

Writers - "shit I've just realized that now we have finished the show we didn't have that plan we had been talking about all along"

"Whoa, forgot about that. Let's just write some shit around what we already have and hope it sticks"