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Battlestar Galactica Finale: An ecologically correct but moronic disappointment
3/22/09 | Vanity

Posted on 03/22/2009 1:11:30 PM PDT by pabianice

What a stupid disappointment.

They finally get to Earth at approx. 200,000 BC, around the time earliest Homo ancestor is appearing. And what do they do? They abandon all their technology and books and arts and theology and everything that they are and go -- wait for it -- Back to Nature, so they can die of the common cold or an infected finger if they don't burn or freeze to death first while being eaten by wild dogs. What crap! They should have called it Battlegreen Galactica . I kept waiting for a lecture from Adama on global warming. Then the characters spend the next several days wandering around instead of trying to kill some food animal with a sharp stick, which is all they've decided to allow themselves. Then, Thrace evaporates and the crew disbands to "spread themselves over the world" rather than cluster together for survival.

A finale that could have been written by the coke-addled. Just say no!


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To: machogirl

I never watched an ep until the finale and got it right away. Now, I’m starting with S1 to play catch up.


21 posted on 03/22/2009 2:00:47 PM PDT by rintense (Go Israel!)
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To: cripplecreek

Did you read them all? I just read the ones written with/by her son in the past couple of months, I think they are fairly new.


22 posted on 03/22/2009 2:00:57 PM PDT by greyfoxx39 (Recession-Your neighbor loses his job, Depression-you lost your job, Recovery-Obama loses HIS job.)
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To: pabianice

Glad I didn’t waste any time watching it. Just another we-hate-ourselves liberal fest.


23 posted on 03/22/2009 2:03:05 PM PDT by Old Sarge ("Remember, remember, the Fourth of November, the Socialist treason and plot...")
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To: greyfoxx39

Yeah I think I read them all but it didn’t get them in order. It looks like her son started writing since 2000 so I haven’t read any of those.


24 posted on 03/22/2009 2:04:30 PM PDT by cripplecreek (The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
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To: Old Sarge

No it wasn’t. It was a complete affirmation that God is in control, hardly a liberal mantra.


25 posted on 03/22/2009 2:09:55 PM PDT by rintense (Go Israel!)
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To: pabianice

It was worth watching the finale to see Cavil blow his own brains out and to see Tyrol wring the neck of Tory regardless of the consequences. The rest, I can’t say I cared enough to worry about and the whole “angels” thing came too far out of left field to have much dramatic impact.


26 posted on 03/22/2009 2:16:47 PM PDT by Question_Assumptions
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To: pabianice
It was terrible.

Lee Adama became Al Gore.

No answers to anything. Plot hole after plot hole.

Useless flashbacks.

And an absurd ending. They would all die of disease.

27 posted on 03/22/2009 2:18:27 PM PDT by LdSentinal
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To: rintense

The problem is that it leaves one wondering exactly what “god” is in control, given that Baltar says that he hates to be called “god” and picked a Baltar, Six, and (ugh) Starbuck as angels.


28 posted on 03/22/2009 2:18:38 PM PDT by Question_Assumptions
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To: pabianice
Oh, and Starbuck is a pigeon.

This show became dreadful after Season 2.

29 posted on 03/22/2009 2:21:08 PM PDT by LdSentinal
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To: pabianice; KevinDavis

Well, one of the main characters was named GAIus... ;)


30 posted on 03/22/2009 2:22:52 PM PDT by mikrofon (BSG Bump)
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To: rintense
Sorry, you couldn't be more wrong as it seems you missed the entire point of the series: God's plan always wins.

I don't give this show's producers and writers credit for having the intelligence to come to that conclusion. Sorry.

31 posted on 03/22/2009 2:23:35 PM PDT by Colonel_Flagg (You're either in or in the way.)
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To: pabianice

No offense, but I can’t imagine a group of people who deserver to freez and starve in the dark than the Colonials of GINO.


32 posted on 03/22/2009 2:29:48 PM PDT by Little Ray (Do we have a Plan B?)
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To: pabianice

No offense, but I can’t imagine a group of people who deserver to freez and starve in the dark than the Colonials of GINO.


33 posted on 03/22/2009 2:29:50 PM PDT by Little Ray (Do we have a Plan B?)
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To: pabianice

Great finale except I wanted the Admiral to slap the hell out of Lee when he suggested they get back together with nature. My wife and I were laughing at Lee talking about wanting to explore, climb mountains, etc. Good luck with that, Lee! You might need to work your well-manicured fingers to the bone just to survive from one day to the next.


34 posted on 03/22/2009 2:38:28 PM PDT by Future Snake Eater ("Get out of the boat and walk on the water with us!”--Sen. Joe Biden)
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To: pabianice

As the final chapter, it was full of holes.

Adama leaves Junior. Yeah right. Like that would happen.

Junior decides for all survivors that he doesn’t like technology, so he doesn’t want a city built. [Junior didn’t bother to ask the 39,000 survivors their view.] And Daddy decides to junk all the craft by sending them into the sun. [No recycling????]

Oh, except Daddy Adama gets to keep his craft to fly around in.

And the Kara disappearance. What was that? An angel? Yeah, right.

And then 150,000 years later, Baltar is strolling around.

It was bad enough that they found Earth I, but it was nuked to near oblivion (how pc). So, conveniently, they find Earth (Reduex or II?), all green and plush. So why did Kara die on Earth I?

Viewers had to suspend credulity. The battle scenes were good. That was the high point.


35 posted on 03/22/2009 2:43:38 PM PDT by TomGuy
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To: Woebama

The reason why i didn’t watch 1 episode of it was the pilot: Starbuck was a chick. That says it all. Thank God I did NOT waste an hour of my time watching this crap.


36 posted on 03/22/2009 2:47:20 PM PDT by max americana
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To: Colonel_Flagg

Did you actually watch the show or just knee jerking it?


37 posted on 03/22/2009 3:00:50 PM PDT by rintense (Go Israel!)
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To: Question_Assumptions
Oh I think that was just a silly allusion to 'He who has no name'. As for Baltar and Six, so far, they are my favorites. I see in them the duality of man, the need for concrete answers in science vs. the want of something more spiritual in God. I love the irony that it was an artificial life created by man that comes to know God, and not the other way around. Of course, the ending, with the microcondrial Eve in Hera, leads me to believe that the reason we current humans have faith is because of the Cylon DNA, not human.

Its a multifaceted, beautiful ending, IMHO.

38 posted on 03/22/2009 3:05:46 PM PDT by rintense (Go Israel!)
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To: pabianice
Did this thing already air? It didn't show on my Dish DVR.
39 posted on 03/22/2009 3:11:42 PM PDT by elfman2 (TheRightReasons.net - Reasoning CONSERVATIVES without the kooks.)
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To: max americana

Me too. My opinion exactly.


40 posted on 03/22/2009 3:33:05 PM PDT by packrat35 (You could make a fortune as a politician if you have the moral standards of a convicted pedophile)
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