Last Friday one of the best sci-fi series of all time ended with a 2h episode. I’m obviously talking about Battlestar Galactica (2000 version).
There’s been a lot of chatting, posting, commenting during the past two days, lovers who’ve turned into haters, fans who’ve been disappointed and other followers who stand by saying this is one of the best “geek” series from the last decade.
I agree with the latter.
Before start praising BSG I have to admit there were a few weak points during the last episode. Personally I didn’t like…
The way the final five stood unperturbed at their pedestal while all the action was taking place at the bridge; their divine halo without batting an eyelash.
The hasty way Cylons where wiped out: oh sure that Cavil, Doral & co got instantly convinced by Baltar’s overwhelming speech, after all they’re only machines not angels. Specially when Cavil came out with that “agreed”, “cease fire” and the worst “hey I don’t mean to rush you but you’re keeping two civilisations wating”… was that meant to be the joke of the evening? Sad.
However the rest was mostly well assembled. Touching human stories gained in prominence as on the first episodes of BSG. Yes, our favourite half-half couples got their intimate minutes in this episode. ‘Cos in the end we don’t care if the robot-cylons get their own ship, where will they go, will they come back… we don’t care about the integration & adaptability of the foreigners with the locals, about who went where, the scientific incongruities or the angels and demons debate.
Who cares about God (I don’t), if they answered too many questions with the divine door (ok maybe a little). The thing is that it left us all (admit it) a sweet-and-sour taste. Mostly sweet, with cheap but necessary reflections of our human egoism.
Whoever disagrees probably watched BSG for the action and the futuristic component, not the magnificent psychological portraits of the main characters: that is what got me in the first place. That’s how I wanted to end.
(Hey, you all still have Terminator in a pair of months)
Overall mark: 8,5/10.
See you @ Rennes
added value…
whoever thought or said that such an open finale would led to a commercial bleeding of subGalactica’s products…
that person was right.
Here’s the first one: The Plan
