To Galactica...

Television, Movies Games and Books BSG-2003
#1

…she was a grand old lady. The finest ship in the fleet and the best frakking show on TV. I will miss her and her crew dearly every Friday night.

I found tonight’s final episode incredibly moving and enlightening. I was SO glad that RDM gave these people the happy ending they all deserved, and that it went where I thought it would go back towards the end of season 1 (even though I was forced to revise my theories many times by the many loops I was thrown through by this incredible team of writers). Some things went unsanswered, sure…or did they? Who WERE the Lords of Kobol? Obviously, it was the humans. They just got written into legend. Who was orchestrating all this? God, of course. But he doesn’t like that name. And who is God? Well, not all mysteries should be revealed.

Mostly, I was glad to see that Helo made it all the way home, that Laura at least got to see Earth before she passed, and that Baltar ultimately found redemption.

I did think the weakest point was the epilogue, set 150,000 years later, but hey, I’ll let RDM indulge in his less-than-subtle platitude. At least he got to make a cameo!

I feel like a complete dork, but I feel like I’ve just said goodbye to an old, very good friend whom I will never see again, at least not in the same way. It’s a very odd feeling to have about a TV show.

#2

To Galactica!

#3

No worries. I have literally been wandering around my house feeling as if I do not belong for the past 45 minutes. My wife got so annoyed by my sense of surrealism and displacement, that she went to bed early.

#4

I think there a lot of us that are feeling the same way. I know I sure do… You said that very very well.

#5

To Galactica!

#6

I’ve got to agree with all of this. I spent two hours crying (and am still bursting into tears every now and then–I’m such a sap), the first half convinced that nobody would make it out alive and the last half grateful that so many did. The epilogue was kind of weird, but I’d been expecting something like it, and I got a much needed laugh out of the last two minutes or so.

My Friday nights are a little bit lonelier now. To Galactica!

#7

To Frakin’ Galactica

#8

I rode the bus home from a friends place, where we watched the finale. Looking around at all the people and things happening around me, it was very surreal.

I will really miss this show.

#9

Well they have beaten Return of the King with the endings :slight_smile:

I’m not sure exactly how I feel about the ending but it think I’ve liked it (most parts of it)

#10

Yeah, guess I could have done without the epilogue. But I’m not complaining. What a ride! Quite possibly my favorite 'sode.

#11

I think I’m going to be in a surreal mood for the next few days. It’s like real life isn’t as real as the show was.

#12

Heres an interesting thought:

God made man in his image (Angel Gaius)
God made Cylon in his image (Angel Six)

And in the end, we are both one race. Facinating

#13

I thought the ending was lovely.
You people are crazy.
=p

#14

I feel the same. Oddly, it is good to know others feel like this.

Grr, arrgh. I feel like an old friend betrayed me with that epilogue. It was a little heavy.

Wow, I’m really bent out of shape . . .

#15

To Galactica!

Everybody made me teary, Adama and Laura made me sob (big surprise, but still), and I was really happy with the mix of action, “holy frak that’s what it meant” moments, ambiguity, and lovely happy and bittersweet endings and callbacks. The epilogue was strange, but it worked for me–epilogues tend to be a bit of a risk, since they by their very nature are meant to pull you out of the story a little bit. I was all right with it because I didn’t expect to chuckle at the end of the series, and I did.

Also, is it just me, or were the Head Characters talking about RDM as the “God” of his fictional universe, a god who throws in randomness (like Racetrack’s dead body hitting the nuke button at just the right time) to shake up the cycle? Since he was standing there, that’s one thing I got from it.

#16

Armando, very well said.

To Galactica!

I liked the epilogue because it gave me a bit of levity at the end (rather than tears, though some of them are happy). I guffawed.

#17

To My lady
who introduced me to BSG, the sound of sctoch clinking, and most of all, you. Every single last fraking one of you.

The part that really got me was nothing but the rain. I love that line.

#18

To Galatica! One of the best shows with one of the best group of fans.

#19

Also, is it just me, or were the Head Characters talking about RDM as the “God” of his fictional universe, a god who throws in randomness (like Racetrack’s dead body hitting the nuke button at just the right time) to shake up the cycle? Since he was standing there, that’s one thing I got from it.

It’s not just you. I think it was perhaps a bit of breaking the fourth wall too.

#20

A great finale to a great show. Well done RDM, production people, writers and actors !!!