Yeah, there’s plenty of opportunity to see the descendants of the fleet educating the Mayans and Egyptians. It all ties in very nicely with the vatious theories of a technologically superior race living on Earth a few thousand years back!

Just saw the finale on Hulu.

A true MASTERPIECE!!!!

It’s hard to believe that Ron D. Moore didn’t have this ep. sketched out from the git-go.

I particularly liked the very-very-very end, linking it all to today. Very nice.

It seems to me that they left plenty of open room for Battlestar Gallactica: The Next Generation.

Again, here’s hoping for a The Plan and Caprica thread.

I’d really hate if this is the last time I get to post . . .

Refrakking. }:-D>

Why are you even posting here?

From your blog: “Monday, March 23, 2009 . . . apparently, the finale of Battlestar Galactica was this weekend. I didn’t watch, as I hate the show. Well, turns out the answers to all the big questions were “goddidit!!”, and ludditism. HAHAHAHAHAAAAA!!! Swill. F**k you, Ron Moore. :)”

I think that says all we need to know about you and how informed your ‘opinions’ are! And, FYI, there are probably more of us who are happy with the show’s ending than not. Difference is, those who dislike a thing are more prone to make a noise about it. Every BSG fan I know who saw it loved it! I’ll pray for you! ;)

And why are people freaking out about the God thing in the show, claiming it’s sudden? For five years we’ve had a woman who looks like Caprica Six and a man who looks like Gaius Baltar, who are invisible to everyone else, proclaiming themselves to be angels sent by God. And then you’re shocked that they turn out to be . . . angels sent by God! Have you even been watching the show?

And as for the plan or lack thereof . . . erm . . . there’s a film called The Plan coming up. Just possibly it might address the, er, Plan? ;)

Nice to see that they kept a balance between the scientific and the spiritual right up to the end. And it was very nice that we didn’t get a load trendy religion-bashing thrown in, so we ended up with a universe where God and Gaia and science can all co-exist!

Interesting that the angels kept the image of Baltar and Caprica even 150,000 years later. Actually, I wonder if they’re friends of Sapphire and Steel . . .

All in all, perhaps the greatest science fiction series ever, ironically born of a failed piece of overblown 70s disco trash (that was still fun in its time!)

Certainly it was the best sci-fi show since the original Star Trek. Now that it is set to be available as a complete entity on DVD and Blu-ray, hopefully new viewers will be attracted to it. Certainly, I suspect its influence will be felt throughout science fiction television for some time to come.

Roll on The Plan. Roll on Caprica. Thank you Ron Moore and David Eick for giving me the sci-fi show I’ve waited my entire life to see! Truly the night was darkest before the dawn!

It’s probably been pointed out elsewhere but Starbuck had winged tattoos….

Oh am so glad it wasn’t just me!

That was a masterful end to perhaps THE best sf TV show ever (ducks for cover…); I cried a lot and punched the air a lot. Wonderful stuff!

It’s the way it was done.

It’s sloppy storytelling, and a copout.

If a light had shined down on someone, and a booming voice had said “yes, my child, it was me!”, or whatever, I would’ve rolled my eyes, but okay, fine, that’s the way it would’ve gone.

But even then….a story with 5 years of twists and turns, you expect more.

Going back to B5, yeah, the Vorlons and Shadows were pseudo-spiritual god-beings, but they had a history, and they tied into everything, and there were clues, and a logical progression.

They didn’t meander around for 5 years, and then Kosh goes “oh yeah, I’m God, the end”.

Y’know?

Even if you’re religious, that’s a sloppy copout way to wrap something up.

It uses God as a plot eject button.
Like the particles of the week of Voyager.

“I’m a staunch atheist, but you don’t seem me proselyting or putting down others’ belief systems”.

In my daily life, and on most sites I go to, I try to stay out of the fray.
I confine my ramblings on religion, and its effect on society and the world to my blog.

I merely wished to vent my displeasure with the BSG finale, and to see if anyone else felt the same way.
I seem to be in a minority.
Ah well, I always am.

Others such as MGB made it about my atheism, and I merely defended myself.
Note I did so without personal insult, or profanity.

That my views push emotional buttons isn’t my problem, and my behavior won’t be dictated by those reactions.