I’ll admit that the journey to the end was dark, but I think the ending was mostly happy. Other thots?
yeah, the ending is not dark. it was actually a little cheesy at the VERY end with the dancing ASIMO robot images… but it was “dark” in that it wasn’t “happy”…
Lee loses his love AND his dad. Big Adama loses Roslin (mid-convo!), and the fleet scatter away all over the Earth. the ships sail into the SUN… so, no rejoice, no celebration, no love…
debatable, discuss-able… one the level of “darkness”
at least they didnt have super powers and flying motorcycles!!! --BSG1980
Exactly what I can to here to say.
I thought a lot more main characters survived than I’d expected. I expected to see Roslin die, but that Helo survived was a pleasant surprise. I was actually a little surprised Chief lived after everything else he’d been through, but I was glad. Overall, it was more hopeful and positive than I’d been bracing myself for. 
I’ll take cheesy over dark and horrible (aka everyone dies) any day.
sad that Lee ended up alone.
Well, hopefully we all lose our dad someday, its usually worse when its the other way around. However, I like to think now that Kara is out of his life, he will be able to find somebody to explore with…
For a moment I was wondering if they would go Atlantis,
highly advanced technologically - Check
Capable of destroying each other - Check
Baltar - Check
Would have made sense too.
I expecting an extremely dark ending, but I was nicely surprise.
It was a much more uplifting ending than I thought (and was led to believe by EJO - among others - remember the “they are left with nothing” comment) it would be. But, best not to think to hard. These survivors are in for a hard time. Their descendants are going to end up being and living a lot more like those homo sapiens they saw in the distance than the other way around.
It was essential to the story line, but abandoning their tech is nuts. And just how much did they keep, if any? The Raptors? Guns? Medicine?
Hm. Cigarettes and booze?
I just figure without the ships they wouldn’t have the infrastructure to maintain their technology indefinitely. Their ultimate power source is tylium based which can’t be replaced on Earth. Eventually, batteries and other mechanical parts would wear out and its not like they would all have knowledge of the basics for getting it all started again. Yes, they could have brought some of landible ships to the surface, but it would have just delayed the inevitable. The could cannibalize them for shelter, but with out mining resources and the like they would eventually just have to rely on the technologies that are most useful for supplying their basic needs: fire, shelter, hunting and basic agriculture. Hopefully, the locals (archaic humans will direct them to some of the medicinal qualities of indigenous plants…
Now that’s a problem…
At least the booze part.
medicinal, right
Oh yeah. So the ‘settlers’ can share the 20-25 year life expectancies of the locals.
Its obvious they survived ditching the tech, since enough managed to procreate and make us.
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I liked the ending.
I didnt think it was cheesy, I actually found it really cool. It was a welcome smile inducing moment, one of the few in bsg lately.
Hi guys
I just finished watching the finale in the UK. Maybe it’s because we’re a heathen island toiling in outer darkness and all, but invoking a personal God with plans and quipping angels right out of some 40’s fantasy deflated it for me. I was quite happy with the show’s more numinous mysticism and I could even take Baltar’s amoral force of nature (though Star Wars anyone?)
It was also a bit more sentimental than I’d credited.
This is not to say that there weren’t things I really liked. The battle was hair-raising. I believed in Baltar and Six, Tigh and Ellen as couples. Helo survived against the odds, which was great.
The flashbacks were great. I thought the way in which the BSG mythos was reconciled with Darwin was OK. I wasn’t half as irritated by this as I’d expected.
Ah well, that’s the first of many GWC therapy sessions done and dusted.
and ditching the tech was nuts. I strongly dislike the finale; it was badly done, cheesy. But ya know, doing as they did they all doomed themselves when their society (a real good way to pass on the best of a culture is to keep it going) could have gone on as it was. But then, I was voting for everyone to die. Kara really lead them to their end.
I agree. When you think about it the ending was much darker than it first appears. God conned Baltar into adopting a philosophy of ignorance:
http://normdoering.blogspot.com/2009/03/it-is-finished-battlestar-galactica.html
And then Baltar thinks God likes him… he’ll think he’s got a happy ending for about a month, until he realizes that no one knows he’s banging a hot babe. Baltar was driven by ego, by self-importance, by public esteem. Now, the only people who’ll be impressed by his genius will be his brats. The local tribesmen will see him as an imbecile who can’t distinguish the edible mushrooms from the poisonous ones, and doesn’t know how to properly build a hut.
He’ll have to meekly submit to nature, like a good Christian serf and soon his hot Cylon wife will start to show the wear of few baths, no blow-dryers, and skin infections. He’ll be left dreaming of the days when he was an interstellar genius as he digs tubers and huddles in fear from the primate-lovin’ carnivores.
And how much technology were they going to ditch? Is Hot Dog’s son going to have to die? They will keep a medical facility going for as long as possible I assume. If they went too far with rejecting technology they all just killed themselves. They’re not primitives, they don’t have the skills for it.
I thought the point was that Baltar had grown out his drive for popularity and adoration from the masses. And instead is more concerned with his love of 6 and not the superficial appearance of the chicks he could be banging…