Daybreak
March 20, 2009A few notes for tonight’s final 3 hour long Battlestar Galactica episode.
First of all, Admiral Adama will go down with Galactica. The ship will not survive, and Adama will die with it. Adama is inherently tied to Galactica, and can’t live without the ship. I can’t imagine him settling down somewhere while Galactica is a rotting carcass.
Roslin will die as well. It was pretty clear during last week’s beautiful episode that she is on the verge of dying.
I have no idea what’s going to happen with Kara, or who or what the hell she actually is. Harbinger of death - will she be the cause of Galactica’s eventual destruction? It’s interesting to note that the harbinger of death thing comes from the Cylons - it’s quite likely Kara will be the key to destroying Cavil’s base, or even to destroying all of the Cylons.
It’s going to be interesting to find out how Baltar will join the rescue mission. According to the Opera House vision, he is supposed to take part in the mission to rescue Hera. In addition, Baltar’s inner Six has continuously stated that Baltar is Hera’s “father”. However, he did not cross the red line and has not volunteered for the mission.
“All this has happened before, and all this will happen again.” Something tonight will allude quite clearly to that Pythian prophecy.
I’m so excited, but at the same time, I’m also very sad. I don’t want BSG to end. It’s going to be very long before any science fiction show (or any show, for that matter) will have the audacity and confidence to produce something as beautiful, deep, and intelligent as BSG.
Ambivalence abound.
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I liked the final episode more than the whole season put together. I loved the photography when settled in the planet, and the CGI and the battles and the far reaching conclusion of the show.
I hated the flashbacks though. I hated them last week, and I hated them this week. Like I cared in the FINALE that Roslin was going to sleep with a student of hers or not. Completely pointless.
The other problem I had with the finale and the whole series in general was the religious crap depicted in an otherwise scifi show. So the Head Six/Baltar are some sort of messengers of God and Kara actually an angel. Very explanatory… not. I can’t stand religious themes in scifi.
Other than that, I liked the finale.
However, personally, I think that BSG is overrated. Too much pointless drama, religion crap, and plotholes (the writers made a lot of it as they were going along). The reason why I liked the finale more was because it had some good action and some nice photography rather than the depressing and poorly lit Galactica interiors (too much digital noise by the camera too — visible in HD).
I did some soul searching in the last few weeks, I tried to understand why the hell BSG, The Wire and The Sopranos are so highly regarded, and why I don’t like them as much as most people do. I found that the reason is that I don’t really enjoy that kind of storytelling and depressing plots. They depict stories of people that behave in a way that I would never do. So I don’t find them representative of my mental state. Hence, I don’t get entertained by them. For example, watching The Wire makes me angry. Great TV show in terms of plotting (these guys have thought of everything). But seeing the ghetto and the political games around it, it just makes me angry, it doesn’t entertain me in the purest of the ways. I need entertainment to feel good when I watch a TV show. “Lost”, “ST:TNG” and some episodes of X-Files do that for me. BSG does it very rarely (tonight was one of these times). All other shows that I happen to watch (e.g. “Heroes”, Fringe, Life on Mars, Dollhouse, Terminator etc), are always pieces of shit in terms of delivering actual entertainment to me.
Oh, and I absolutely hated the fact that the SyFy Channel here in the US called the new Caprica show as “drama”. They specifically called it a drama and not science fiction. I hate soap operas. Even with SOME scifi in them. BSG was also a soap opera in many ways, a bit less drama would have been nice.
Comment by Eugenia — March 21, 2009 @ 10:12 am