I should have taken a walk. I’ve been posting like a blithering fool.
I think much was explained to my satisfaction, but that which happened at the end has really got me going!
gonna go walk …
Spouse and I were just discussing this - I don’t think that Lee did, necessarily. I think Bill chose to. He’s lived his life, and that’s that.
I got the same feeling. I think Lee probably eventually found a girl who likes climbing mountains and building ocean-fairing canoes. Bill was like a happier version of Chief; he’d seen enough of the world, found what he wanted, and didn’t really want to deal with anything after that.
I found it strange that, after how much the Galactica felt like a big family (and after how mad I was when the mutiny broke the family up), I was okay seeing the family break off into couples and go their separate ways.
I was kind of sad to see everyone split up though I get teh whole let’s not build a giant city. i mean environmentally at the very least…
I just find it hard to believe that 38,000 people just went there seperate ways, and no one even built a town of some sort. Still what was kara, an angel? where did the viper come form then? The whole Laura and Bill thing at the end really broke me up, but I just can’t see everyone saying “Eh frack it, I’ll just wonder off and forget all I learned and just die with not even a stick of technology.” Just seems to push it a bit, assume Head 6 and Baltar where some kind of angels though.
YES! I loved that!
I thought there were scenes that were well done and the acting was top notch as always, I can’t give it much more than a “meh.” With the exception of the last five minutes, there wasn’t much that I thought was bad. The Starbuck jump sequence was overdone- We know, the song points to Earth. This has been mentioned before. We didn’t need a flashback montage to get that. Have her hum the tune, maybe voice over the “I assigned numbers” bit, then type in the code.
Other than that and the flash forward at the end, it wasn’t a bad episode. I think.
I guess was interesting. Not all that I wanted, but not all disappointing either.
Actually the just set it up and left the door open for Skynet to take over 
I just got done watching it and I’m still digesting it. I liked it but it felt pretty rushed.
i think galactica is the dying leader!!!
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because roslin really did leave to see the promised land. wow her death was beautiful.
I absolutely agree it can be both. The first 90 minutes were utterly amazing!! I need to watch it again once my head clears to get the full impact of the ending. I couldn’t fully get into it because I was so afraid that Ron was going to pull the rug out from underneath us (as he has done in so many of the other finales). I am sure once I see it again it will really work.
Don’t get me wrong, I still cried through all the goodbyes. The acting is amazing!
The show will truly be missed. So say we all.
I think they did… they all started different towns, in a way… Tyrol went to Scotland (what I think), Lee went to where ever the hell he went, and a bunch of them (I’m guessing, since we saw them land in Africa) started in Mesopotamia, the birthplace of human civilization. The African continent is close to Mesopotamia, anyway.
Great ending. Closure at last. Feel like everything’s new again. Will miss this show. Now I can get back to my life (until ‘The Plan’ & the nu ‘Caprica’ show of course. Heh.
150,000 years ago though. The first modern humans were cropping up at around that time but they were all in Africa. You might start getting modern humans in the Middle East a bit before 50k. The real migrations start about 50,000 years ago. India, Australia, then Central Asia. And from Central Asia to everywhere else.
I totally agree, half absolutley positively riveting, and then once they got to earth, I just couldn’t stay with it emotionally. Maybe it was seeing them out of their space element for so long, and having that big question - how or do they relate to us - answered.
Ok, the ramming of BSG into the colony was even cooler than the Exodus II rescue. Boomer getting blown away - I cheered.
Just some random thoughts I had, and that my husband was screaming at the tv - living off of the land is hard for people who have never done that, and in an alien environment. Lee has this idea he’s going to lay around all day, but odds are he won’t. While Baltar definitely has some agricultural experience, it is with crops grown in an established and modern growing environment. With domesticated seeds.
Loved the RDM shot, hated the mitochondrial eve bit.
I think you can let your imagination run a little wild with what it meant for them to separate. First I am sure 95% of them were happy to not be on a ship any more. Sure in 3 years they may wish for the creature comforts again, but that was Lee’s point. Get rid of it now, so it won’t matter if you want it later.
I kept thinking that Chief was going to Scotland, probably alone. I wonder if whatever he does up that way later leads to stories of gods of the north. What about the pyramids, atlantis, etc? Could the survivors eventually create some of these things. Maybe a group decides to leave, and have enough technically minded people to create a ship. Atlantis then simply flies away.
As much as I was tired of her, seeing Laura die was sad. That last scene of Adama next to her grave was incredibly well done.
Finally the Kara ending was great, but why the pidgeon?
That’s easy. The pigeon was a representation of Kara. Lee couldn’t control her and in the end she flew away on her own.
That might have been the only thing I was ever right about in my predictions.
A long time ago I thought the finale would have Laura’s grave being shown on Earth. Then I dropped that idea, even before the discovery of a bombed out Erf. It’s good to finally be right about something in this show.
Or so theories theorize. This was one of the things I really wish the writers had not given to us so literally. Anthropology is so theory based as it is, and it is so clear that they wrote this based on some popular modern theories about humanities past that are bound to change in years to come. So again I say that this takes away from the timelessness of the show, because 25 years from now when the theories about human origins have changed the ending they chose for the show might not hold up.
It was sweet to see Adama talking to Lauras grave as if she were right beside him. I imagine Lee found some nice girl and settled down with a plot of land. Baltar obviously headed to the eastern mediterranean or mesopotamia at the least. I’m a little jealous of chief, I’ve always wanted my very own island even if it was Britain.