elektrizitat (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} elektrizitat) wrote,@ 2009-03-21 10:27:00 |
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BSG Finale
I watched the BSG finale last night. At first I was just mildly disappointed even though it felt like a good, sincere effort. The more I thought about it, the more questions I had and the less willing I was to forgive some of the plot points or decisions.
It's just a television show so why get worked up about it? Well, I suppose I'm not all that worked up about it, but it just felt like a let-down to a series that has - overall - done so well and been of such high quality.
The fleet is really willing to let Adama and the primary cast take the BSG to rescue Hera - a probable suicide mission? Granted - they kept making Hera out to be a person of great importance, but in the end ... connecting her to "mitochondrial Eve" didn't make much sense to me. What about all the other adults on the planet?
Adama really was going to abandon everyone (including his son) to scrap together a living on a mountain top? Everyone in the fleet was really willing to forsake technology ... mainly for the sake of a too-clever "Oh, but they are all our ancestors!" ending? Let's give them that plot point and say everyone really was wiling to return to an agrarian society. At a very minimum I'd say they'd still have language and writing... so why don't we have written records for the last 150,000 years? I might accept this as an alternate earth, but when they flashed forward they seem to pretty clearly say this is our earth they landed on with the contemporary commercials.
Kara is an angel or was literally resurrected by GOD? For whom was she the harbringer of death? HeadBaltar and HeadSix are really angels/demons/agents of GOD? I dunno, this just all ... doesn't sit well with me. I should have suspected more of a supernatural ending as prophecy has played a role in the series since the beginning - but I didn't see it taking the front seat "Deux Ex Machina" role that it did. I wish they had taken a more hard-science path in the plot and made an attempt to explain HeadBaltar/HeadSix/Kara in a more scientifically grounded manner. I could yap forever about this, just thought I'd post this out there..
I watched the BSG finale last night. At first I was just mildly disappointed even though it felt like a good, sincere effort. The more I thought about it, the more questions I had and the less willing I was to forgive some of the plot points or decisions.
It's just a television show so why get worked up about it? Well, I suppose I'm not all that worked up about it, but it just felt like a let-down to a series that has - overall - done so well and been of such high quality.
The fleet is really willing to let Adama and the primary cast take the BSG to rescue Hera - a probable suicide mission? Granted - they kept making Hera out to be a person of great importance, but in the end ... connecting her to "mitochondrial Eve" didn't make much sense to me. What about all the other adults on the planet?
Adama really was going to abandon everyone (including his son) to scrap together a living on a mountain top? Everyone in the fleet was really willing to forsake technology ... mainly for the sake of a too-clever "Oh, but they are all our ancestors!" ending? Let's give them that plot point and say everyone really was wiling to return to an agrarian society. At a very minimum I'd say they'd still have language and writing... so why don't we have written records for the last 150,000 years? I might accept this as an alternate earth, but when they flashed forward they seem to pretty clearly say this is our earth they landed on with the contemporary commercials.
Kara is an angel or was literally resurrected by GOD? For whom was she the harbringer of death? HeadBaltar and HeadSix are really angels/demons/agents of GOD? I dunno, this just all ... doesn't sit well with me. I should have suspected more of a supernatural ending as prophecy has played a role in the series since the beginning - but I didn't see it taking the front seat "Deux Ex Machina" role that it did. I wish they had taken a more hard-science path in the plot and made an attempt to explain HeadBaltar/HeadSix/Kara in a more scientifically grounded manner. I could yap forever about this, just thought I'd post this out there..
