- Adama: Starbuck, what do you hear?
- Starbuck: Nothing but the rain.
- Adama: Then grab your gun and bring in the cat.
- Starbuck: Aye-aye, sir!
The series has come to the end of its four seasons run. And we have the 2 hour finale, where they get to tie up all the loose strings, and answer all those questions we have been left with over the run up to this grand final!… Or Not.
So the Galactica is damaged to the point it can no longer jump, its being stripped of anything usefull and everyone is moving out to the basestar, When Adama decided to send the old lady out in style with a suicide mission to take on the Cylon colony & basestars. This is the cylon fleet that wiped out humanity, destroyed the more powerful Battlestar Pegasus with just three basestars, and been hammering the undamaged Galactica for the previous four years. And with a huge hole in its side from Boomers FTL jump.
So Galactic jumps into the place of death (Surviving the Jump) It gets the full force of a heavily armed and prepared cylon colonys defenses blasting away at this damaged battlestar, the whole cylon raider fleet attacking it, Galactica on limited viper defense since stayed with the fleet (and for some reason the two best pilots were running around with guns?), the remaining raptors FTL jumped from inside the pod ripping another huge hole in Galactica. and at the end of the Battle she jumps a stupid huge jump and then her spine breaks, The Huge colony was destroyed by a couple of nukes. And this was a broken Galactica?
So.. Time for answers to the Questions we all been waiting for…The answer is “Its god!” Seriously, after four years that’s what they gave us!
Ok. Lets go.
Why does Baltar and the Six see each other in their Heads.. Oh “Head Baltar” and “Head Six” are angels who are leading the people of the course of God.
Why do some characters keep seeing an Opera House? That’s not really answered but we can only assume its a glimpse of Heaven. Well if heaven is an opera, I for one am spending the rest of my life sinning, I dont like opera.
How come everyone has visions of Hira. We’ll ignore that one
What awoke the final five? oh a song, played by God, which happens to be a song Starbuck was taught by her dad as a young girl, and the location of new~earth.
What happened to the Cylon fleets, they were big enough to take out the 12 colonies but are now reduced to one rebal one, and the main colony which has no basestars? Errr we’ll ignore that one, even though the colonial scouts took photos of basestars by the colony but show you a flashback to roslyn sleeping with a x-studant of hers.
Are the Cylons going to stop their constant revenge against the humans now their colony was destroyed. Remember those missing basestars. Err, lets ignore that and pretend all the nasty cyclons vanished since its gods will.
Why would every person on the fleet vote to give up all technology and live like savages? Come one, no one seen shipwrecked, survivor, we as a species are soft and unable to cope without our technology, and these guys are more technologically dependant than us, and they moved to strange world where they not immune from any diseases, and going to try and live with sticks and stones and native people who are trained hunter/killers.. (I give them a month survival). It would not happen. try getting everyone from the city of London to give up everything and go live on an island with just the clothes off their backs.. Answer Its Gods will.
What was the Cylons Plan? Err we been told about this plan all through the series, and as we reached the end, we never found out.
And The Biggest question. What was Starbuck? Now this is a biggie, after all, we know she died, possibly twice. We saw her ship explode in a vortex, we saw another viper burnt out with her dead body on it when they find earth, so thats two deaths. So is she like head Baltar/Six an angel? Nope, cant be because everyone can see her, she fights, drinks, freks, she kills. She also sees her own Head person of piano player/her dad in the bar reteaching her the song that awoke the final five and holds the path to new earth. So are the writers saying an angel with no knowledge of being an angel is seeing angels? (My head hurts) Well that does not explain the fact she has been drawing the same picture since birth, a picture that shows the way to earth? I know. Lets not answer this hard one and show a flashback to appolo watching a pigeon.
Ok. I got the feeling the writers had a good series, they built up lots of plots, and sub plots, and had like the cylons A PLAN. But as the series came to the end, they gave up, decided juggling all the complicated stuff was too hard, That or they could not think of a way to answer it? so the used a deus ex machina to answer everything.. Oh it was God
That or, since it was the last ever episode, and no comebacks “ie. the series could not be canceled” they decided to just throw in some propaganda. Everyone there is one true god, all worship the god, robots, ai, abortions, technology bad, nature and god good…
I feel bad for the series send off, Although the fleet flying into the sun to the theme from the original series was a nice touch.
CN
Forty eight years ago today, a cranky old man who lived with his granddaughter in an old London junk yard, kidnapped a couple of school teachers who were just checking up on a pupils “What I did in my summer holiday” essay, and started an adventure that would last 48 years so far, become the longest running Science Fiction series of all time, and kicked of three spin off series (four if you count the failed K9 and Company).
not to mention she has been in some shows I loved, and will happily re-watch.
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