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The BSG finale! Spoiler City...

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The BSG finale! Spoiler City...

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Okay I'm gunna make a wild assumption here and say that a fair number of Sins players also like the re-imagined BSG!

So, has anyone watched the finale yet and if so...what do you make of it!

I'm gunna go ahead and say the battle between Galactica and the Colony ship is probably the best sequence from all four seasons (perhaps joint best with the time Adama let the ship free-fall through the atmosphere, launched vipers then FTL'd about 100ft off the ground).  And her final back-breaking jump actually made me a little sad inside!!  You all need to see the first hour of this episode - it'll give you shivers!

Sadly most people aren't talking about this.  They're focused (perhaps rightly so) on the MAJORLY religious overtones.  Yes they were always there, what with God's plan and all.  But it was always left open ended as to whether they were the delusions of a handful of people that just happened to guide them in the right direction, or whether they were something more.  And I liked that.  But the finale said in no uncertain terms:

God exists.  He orchestrated everything.

For the writers it's a handy tool to explain away the resurrection of Starbuck...and her subsequent 'Batman' stunt (disappearing into thin air).

And it leaves all sorts of unanswered questions as to the impact that the survivors had on our Earth over 150,000 years, the biggest of which is; why aren't we more advanced given that they had knowledge far beyond ours?  Did they purposely limit their development?  This would be a hard thing to enforce across 30 - 40,000 people.

Anyway all of this and I'm just assuming there are a lot of BSG watchers out there.  I hope there are!  Otherwise I'm kind of talking to myself :blush:  

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Reply #26 from Sins Forums Top

Except the ruined Earth had the Brooklyn Bridge on it.

It wasn't supposed to be recognizeable as the Brooklyn Bridge, Ron Moore said that in an earlier interview. It was just supposed to be a generic ruined bridge.

There's no speculation on this issue. It is "our" Earth. Read the stuff in the link further up :)

Edit:

Some of the writers who have talked to people since the finale have been very evasive about what Earth is and what happened to it. I'm not going to ask you to give it away, but my first reaction to it, and a lot of people's, was, "Holy (bleep), it's the Brooklyn Bridge." And whether it's supposed to be that or not, given that the show deals so much with 9/11, were you deliberately trying to evoke that shape with that shot?

It wasn't exactly my idea. It was something that the visual effects artists came up with. I dialed it back from being further in that direction. I wanted to evoke that feeling of familiarity, and I wanted to end with a big question mark. I didn't want them to know exactly what they were looking at, but you could pull that out of it.

http://sepinwall.blogspot.com/2009/01/battlestar-galactica-ron-moore-talks.html

So as you see, he didn't exactly intend for it to be recognizeable like that :P

Reply #27 from Sins Forums Top

Plus the old "Earth" was full of cylons, not humans.

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Reply #28 from Sins Forums Top

According to the finale we are all part cylon :)

Reply #29 from Sins Forums Top

According to the finale we are all part cylon

Unfortunately it's not the "deploy machine gun out of arm" part :( How awesome would that be, as long as you're never planning to go through a metal detector, or x-ray.

But that's one thing I don't get still about it - why Hera? Why not any of the other fully human children? I mean, they said the natives were compatible for mating (pretty much just as bluntly), so why the half-cylon one?

Reply #30 from Stardock Forums Top

How do we know that that is "our" Earth? Our Earth could have been the one that was an apocolyptic wasteland.

Unless there is another planet with a continent that looks like Africa from orbit with an obvious Saudia Arabia and such right next to it...then the final planet was our earth.

Those robots in the end...classic timing with the release of that very lifelike robot.

Reply #31 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting Annatar11, reply 4
But that's one thing I don't get still about it - why Hera? Why not any of the other fully human children? I mean, they said the natives were compatible for mating (pretty much just as bluntly), so why the half-cylon one?

Well it's part of the cycle perhaps or part of gods (it's) plan?

Or perhaps there was something about Hera that evolution wise made humankind survive, something that just normal BSG humans didn't have in their genetics.  As we are supposed to be part cylon BSG humans aren't humans in our sense of the word.

In evolution terms if a whole species evolves from a very narrow origin then that origin's genetics must have been strong in a survivability and reproduction sense, therefore explaining 'why Hera' without actually explaining.

Reply #32 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting Annatar11, reply 1

Except the ruined Earth had the Brooklyn Bridge on it.


It wasn't supposed to be recognizeable as the Brooklyn Bridge, Ron Moore said that in an earlier interview. It was just supposed to be a generic ruined bridge.

There's no speculation on this issue. It is "our" Earth. Read the stuff in the link further up

Edit:


Some of the writers who have talked to people since the finale have been very evasive about what Earth is and what happened to it. I'm not going to ask you to give it away, but my first reaction to it, and a lot of people's, was, "Holy (bleep), it's the Brooklyn Bridge." And whether it's supposed to be that or not, given that the show deals so much with 9/11, were you deliberately trying to evoke that shape with that shot?

It wasn't exactly my idea. It was something that the visual effects artists came up with. I dialed it back from being further in that direction. I wanted to evoke that feeling of familiarity, and I wanted to end with a big question mark. I didn't want them to know exactly what they were looking at, but you could pull that out of it.



http://sepinwall.blogspot.com/2009/01/battlestar-galactica-ron-moore-talks.html

So as you see, he didn't exactly intend for it to be recognizeable like that

Whoops, sorry. I never saw that interveiw, so I assumed that it was the Brooklyn Bridge. And I thought I remembered them showing the first "earth" from space with blackened continents, etc, but I guess I just imagined that. Sorry about that.

Reply #33 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Quoting Annatar11, reply 13

AND Cavil's End of course.
Yeah, it was deliciously awesome. It was the actor's idea too.

Hehehe, I guessed as much. Dean Stockwell is great at these things. I loved him as Al in Quantum Leap. Actually IMO it was HIS role not Scott Bakula's that made the show worth while.