Those stupid dancing robots…

[Tom]

I gotta be honest. I coulda had more dancing robots.
I gotta fever and the cure is more dancing robots.

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[rodbv]

While I agree that they could have wrapped up earlier (say, that scene with Adama), the robots didn’t bother me that much.

I’m with JadOnTV that this was a deliberate break on the 4th wall, a humorous one, and, considering how extremely dark this series was, it’s cool. That and the cameo was for me a way of RDM say “thanks a lot folks, remember, this is TV and entertainment, have a nice day”.

The only moment that really put me off in the recent episodes was when “PC” showed up as a brain surgeon.

[Cavatar]

I loved the dancing robots, and I also got the impression (despite what head six said to head baltar) that this has all happened before, and it is HAPPENING again.

[bigdamnhero]

I strongly suspect that RDM did it to jerk us around. Can’t you “hear” him thinking - the diehards are going to HATE this?

Prolly… and we did, for the most part. Admiral Ron puts up with a lot of our craaap, like smarta$$ references to his lovely locks – so I’m willing to take some craaap in return. I’m just thankful the screen didn’t turn black suddenly.

One robot would of done the trick.

Agreed. I think RDM could have stopped with the robot on the TV, and then roll the credits.

The only moment that really put me off in the recent episodes was when “PC” showed up as a brain surgeon.

I kinda thought it was cool at the time, but John Hodgman showing up as a brain surgeon was a bigger flub than the dancing robots… the robots were just heavy handed, while Hodgman’s appearance (and I still like you, Hodg) actually broke the 4th wall. In the most important “info-dump” episode, no less.

I’m not militant about liking or disliking the proto-larrys, though I think it was too much. Like others have said, the series ends with Adama by Roslins’s grave on the hill… and it think RDM intended it that way. He clearly ends the series by fading to black, and then silence… and then raises the house lights slightly for the coda, and he decides to play with us a little, in these last few moments… that’s how the coda works: it’s meant to gently bring you back to reality. You notice he doesn’t take the chance of ruining his own show by making his cameo in the actual series, it’s in the coda… and the proto-larrys are in the coda, and “our” version of AATW, and Head Baltar’s smartass reference to “Yahweh”. He’s just having a bit of fun… I think it’s dippy cause I’m a diehard, but it’s forgivable.

I gotta be honest. I coulda had more dancing robots.

So that’s where the Daniel’s went!

[Keith_Z-G]

I voted “Baltar” in this case actually because I had, honest to God/Gods, forgotten what happened after the camera left Baltar and Six in the end. Partially because I was very tired when watching it and immediately afterwards went to sleep, and partially I think it was deliberate on the part of my subconscious.

I was a bit taken out of the moment too… but it’s not that bad for me.

But if they could have cut that part and show us the colony sucked into the blackhole after the nukes launched by racetrack’s body, i wouldn’t miss it one bit.

Hmmm actually hey, they never show the colony actually sucked in eh? Well, that’s obviously because they wanted to follow the Galactica, but still, the Colony must have gotten itself there somehow, maybe it had . . . a way out of there . . .

[ATGreat]

I had mentioned this some time ago, but there is a cultural divide in how we see how robots will interact with humans. In the U.S. we see robots as a potential threat and userpers to our domination of the world. In Japan however, the robots are seen as symbiotic companions to humans. You’ll notice that all of the films that RDM used are of Japanese robots, and not of the industrial robots we use in the U.S. (Although, Japan does use a lot of industrial robots.)

[Hypatia]

I really, really, really, dislike that whole bit. Because, it was just so darn unnecessary, on top of undercutting all the drama and resolution that happened right before it. And, it was such a jarring image compared to the episode (or even, to the series, as a whole). I think most people understood what they were trying to say prior to that scene, so why make this really cheesy bit with the head Baltar and Six yapping about it? I like to think that the writers think that the audience could have connected the dots themselves instead of having it blatantly shown in that cheesy cliched just so darn annoying and outdated end scene, but obviously, they didn’t, and I’m more than a little disappointed in that. Come on! Even on a cinematic level, seeing the TV reporting on robots and robots dancing, then Head Six and Head Baltar walk in the crowd while that one guy checks her out? NOT a great looking scene, and again makes people think of other sci fi references that are not needed. The epilogue of everyone leaving and starting their lives on Earth? Now that’s cinematic and great looking. Much better as an end scene.

Especially on my rewatch, where I had more time to really ‘feel’ the end of the show, and the end of these characters that I’ve watched for all these years. It got real dusty, I had tissues, then BAM! I see those stupid robots dancing. WTF? Yeah, that’s when I start throwing my tissues at the TV.

So, to me, this ending was a definite huge sore spot in an otherwise pretty darn satisfying finale.

Sorry to be so negative about this, but I really hated it (the end scene, not the finale) Sorry about that!

Anyway. For me, the end scene of the series is Adama sitting on that hill top next to Laura’s grave, and I’m sticking to that. Much better. I refuse to accept that this whole robot end scene exist. lalalalalalalalalalalala I am in denial.

Coco, I completely agree with you. This will be the scene that dates the show. I’m going to pretend that the series ends with Adama talking to Laura’s grave. (There are other things that I’d like to change, but I have limit myself.)

[brendon]

I could not help but think of Asimov’s I Robot short stories when I saw the dancing robots.

Most often in SciFi when there is a great leap in technology it is very it is presented like Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein. Were suddenly from out of a no were a lone scientist makes a fantastic leap in to a new era of technology.

But it would not happen like that I am sure there were lots of clumsy leaps forward when the those who lived on Kobol were building the first Cylon[z].

[rjmdrum]

I liked the ending alot even though I almost thought there was a microsecond tinge of Galactica 1980 here. :rolleyes:
Sure we have been saying the same stuff for years.
Terminator will continue to bring the same concepts to a larger audience.
Assimov’s Robot series may have started it all decades ago.
Magnus Robot Fighter goes back to the 50s I think.
But the message was about tying into
the cycle of history as created in the mythos of the series so it was fine.
It was also more of an epilogue than anything else.
The statement was more about human behavior in general.
and its abandonment of the Gods for technology and those implications/ consequences. The utilization of the Head figures in Time Square implies a little more than the robots go bad concepts and
probably has more in common with the mythos of Planet of the Apes with regard to religious dogma.

Thanks for reading.

[Old_Timer]

I haven’t scrutinized all the posts on this thread, but it seems like I may be the only die hard that like “them”. I thought it was a pretty ominous ending, given what C6 has just said about mathematical odds of the Cycle repeating. My reaction was - we are on a slippery slope here - from cute “toy” robots to those who want to obliterate us.

[rjmdrum]

I haven’t scrutinized all the posts on this thread, but it seems like I may be the only die hard that like “them”. I thought it was a pretty ominous ending, given what C6 has just said about mathematical odds of the Cycle repeating. My reaction was - we are on a slippery slope here - from cute “toy” robots to those who want to obliterate us.

I agree totally.
Good Sci-fi should always come with a warning message.
After all that is what dystopian fictiion is supposed to be. i liked it.
Thanks for reading

[coco]

I haven’t scrutinized all the posts on this thread, but it seems like I may be the only die hard that like “them”. I thought it was a pretty ominous ending, given what C6 has just said about mathematical odds of the Cycle repeating. My reaction was - we are on a slippery slope here - from cute “toy” robots to those who want to obliterate us.

See, that’s the thing. I found the message the end scene gave to be interesting and gave us something to think about, I just HATED the execution of it, the overbearingness of it, the blatant “we better tell you exactly what we mean, because you couldn’t possibly get that from watching, oh, the entire series right up to this” bit, etc.

[Old_Timer]

See, that’s the thing. I found the message the end scene gave to be interesting and gave us something to think about, I just HATED the execution of it, the overbearingness of it, the blatant “we better tell you exactly what we mean, because you couldn’t possibly get that from watching, oh, the entire series right up to this” bit, etc.

Look, that’s a valid point. I thought the cheery, little toy robots put an OK spin on it. What they SHOULD have done was have the 'bots from MST3K.