Any thoughts on the Battlestar Galactica finale?

Answer 1

Wow.
Didn't see that coming. I'm still reeling over the revelations of the show. I'm curious as to who the last of the five cylons are. It could be Starbuck or even the President. I say that because there seems to be a boy girl boy girl pattern to the cylons. Hate the fact that you have to wait til 2008 to see the new season. They shouldn't make a body wait that long with a finale like that.

Answer 2

I thought it was absolutely incredible...I couldn't go to sleep until 2 AM! First of all, I don' think the 4 hearing the Dylan/Hendrix song are actually Cylons...I think they are somehow connected to Earth, perhaps descendants of an Earthly bloodline. Secondly, I don't think Starbuck is a cylon. She is special somehow, perhaps like Tyrol and the other 3, but not a cylon. I think our cylon here is President Roslin. She started getting sick again once they got close to the nebula; furthermore, she felt something BEFORE the power outage. She was inside of dreams with Athena and Number 6 and just why is it that a semi-cylon baby cured her cancer in the first place?

I thought Lee's speech while he was on the witness stand was amazing and I continue to be amazed at Baltar's monkey-like appearance these days. The guy used to be hot in Seasons 1 and 2...they have really made him look like a weasel!

I can't wait for 2008!

Answer 3

Hard to follow 'War & Peace' above me but I'll keep it succinct.

1) We KNEW Starbuck couldn't be dead, it was just a matter of time before they brought her back. I just think its too soon.

2) Being in the military, it bugs me to no end how "Mr. Adama" resigns his wings in the previous episode, and then grabs his gear and jumps in a waiting viper once the Cylons jump into their space.

3) Tighe, 'Chief', and the others are bound by something else and the music is just an indicator. I don't believe that they are Cylons because most were exposed to the Cylon 'plague' in earlier episodes. Besides, how would Cylons get tapped into Jimi Hendrix?

4) The cylons had to show up before someone just off and murders Boltar. He has to get out of the human fleet because he's an outcast with nowhere to go.

I'm curious where they're going with this storyline, but 2008 is way too long to wait for the next installment though. I just hope they don't try to be too tricky like 'Lost' with the plot twists because they'll lose ALOT of viewers.

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Answer 5

I’d like to know what YOUR thoughts are.
As for mine, OMG I had a fraking good time, so good I did not see the hour pass. Near the end, I had the sad realization that I missed Starbucks and then, suddenly, she was there, like interactive TV, my wish came true! Extremely spooky.
Now I’m fraking crying because I have to wait for 2008 for new episodes. Hope I’m not dead by then.

I like sci-fi and procedural shows (Law & Order, Boston Legal…) so it was like killing two birds with one stone, no, I hate that expression, it was more like …baking two cakes with one oven. The seven minutes of “Mr. Adama” on the stand was way up there in my Richter scale, putting all the previous story lines in perspective and cohesion. Those seven minutes lasted 14 for me because I rewinded and watched it again!

I always knew Dr. Baltar would be found not guilty because as a character, he’s a great one. The writers cannot just throw him out of an airlock. Gaius Baltar represents everyone of us, the ones who watch, the audience... Not everybody can be a hero and sacrifice their lives to the cause so here comes Dr. Baltar. He has a very high self preservation instinct which comes with a price: he seems weak and looks like a coward and the fact that he’s full of himself does not help him. Exactly like the French when they surrendered to the Germans. At the end of the war, Berlin was destroyed, London was a mess but look at Paris, untouched, and they won too, who’s the wiser now?
President Baltar surrendered to the Cylons and then everybody was rescued by Galactica and Cie, so President Baltar was like the French and Galactica was like the Americans coming to the rescue. I love the show always trying to connect to Earth events.
I personally would surrender to an enemy stronger than me, just to buy enough time to be rescued by others who can (Galactica who did not fight but ran away, lived to fight another day…). Better that than to be annihilated.

I was very disappointed by Gaeta’s perjury. I used to like the guy (the character), not anymore. What a weasel!
And after that little Gaeta’s note, let me do a little Number Six/Caprica Six’ note: Tricia Helfer should really get a commendation on the fact that she must be so cold during her scenes (I always get a chill when I see her). Put some sleeves on the poor girl! She’s the only actress I can think of who looks and is a supermodel but you don’t hate her for that because of her poignant acting.
In fact, all the acting in Galactica are extremely good. I think this is due to great writing and direction because those actors are the best when acting in Galactica. They should kiss the feet of the writers and the director(s) to thank them for making them look so good.
Let’s take an example here: James Callis. Do you remember him in the Bridget Jones movies? I don’t. But as Gaius Baltar, he’s a very complex character…arrogant and pitiful, a weak coward who really does not have any choice in what he has to do. He can be what he is or die and he chooses to live. And also he has that great interaction with Number Six that is so “Fight Club, Beautiful Mind, schizophrenia thing” but more real than that because we’re in sci-fi territory. I remember that second when he looked up during the trial, like “I don’t want a mistrial” that was priceless…
Or let’s take another example: Jamie Bamber. I saw him in a Cold Case episode last month (Blood on the Track) and he was so average I almost did not recognize him. Now, playing Apollo (Mr. Adama, lol), he has reached his full capacity (he can even be fat and out of shape and still believable). The way he expresses pain (when Starbucks “dies” or when his father rejects him) is poignant. The look he has on his face when he was on the stand, when he looked at his father who just said: “you can appeal to the President if you feel that this influences the verdict, but I for one would like to hear this witness testify”. Amazing quarter of a second moment which I really give credit to the writers and the director who really know how to get the best out of an actor.
Let’s take another example (okay, the last, I’m getting tired): Mark Sheppard. That actor has been everywhere. He has been in Medium, Without a Trace, 24, Monk, Las Vegas, Jake 2.0, Firefly, Charmed, CSI, JAG, Star Trek: Voyager, the Practice, just to name the shows I actually watched. I know I’ve seen him somewhere and since I watched those shows, I will assume I saw him there but he never really made an impact on me until I saw him in Galactica as the lawyer Romo Lampkin. Suddenly, I am like, what? That is a fraking good actor. He has an incredible voice and presence. He’s like an independent movie star who decided to do his favorite TV show for fun. I could see him playing the bad guy against Tom Cruise in a big blockbuster movie. But he’s just really a TV actor who looks really good on Galactica because the writing is so good and the directing is perfect. When he says to Dr. Baltar: “Well, your boundless confidence provided us with great solace throughout the proceedings.”, I was laughing so hard. (It was after the swaggerer Dr. Baltar, said “…hypocrisy of the prosecution’s case, then really the judges had no other option but to find me not guilty.”).

Now you have that whole other plot about the music and the Cylons…
That Tori girl (she was a real b-i-t-c-h in the previous episode…), that poor Anders, still in mourning from losing Starbucks, Chief Tyrol and one-eye Tigh all think they’re Cylons because they can hear that Rolling Stone music (All Along the Watchtower) and congregate in one place? How did they jump to that conclusion? What if they’re just special people like Starbucks and they’re just answering to their destiny? (and if they’re Cylons, is the Chief’s baby an hybrid too?)
But I really do not know anything. Other people may know more, like entil2001 (http://www.tv.com/battlestar-galactica-2003/crossroads-part-2/episode/832200/reviews.html?review_id=364763) who wrote:
“Tyrol, Anders, Tori, and Col. Tigh all assume that they are Cylons, but there is nothing objective to prove that it’s true. They may be wrong, and this might still be the signpost to Earth at work, targeting specific genetic traits. Similarly, one could assume (as many have) that Starbuck’s reaction to the Maelstrom was her own response to the signal. Her return in this episode could be seen as evidence that she is the last of the Final Five. If so, then her journey to Earth supports the idea that the Final Five are connected to Humanity’s previous survival.”

All I know is that I enjoy that show very much and look forward to it.