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Battlestar Galactica Comes To an End
On Friday evening, Battlestar Galactica ended its four-season run as one of the most popular science fiction shows in recent history. 2.4 million people tuned in for the finale, and reactions to the ending — positive, negative, and often a mix of both — are springing up all over the internet, as are tributes and retrospectives. Producers Ron Moore and David Eick held a Q&A session after the finale to discuss certain aspects of the story and spell out the final status of several plot lines. Fans of the show will have a chance to see the Cylon side of the story this fall in a two-hour TV movie titled "The Plan," and we've previously discussed the spin-off prequel series, Caprica, the pilot for which will come out on April 21st. Be warned: these links and the following discussion will contain spoilers.
Snape Kills Adama
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I couldn't help but see the parallels to the "B" Ark. Heck, there was even a bathtub on the bridge!
-- I prefer the term "karma escort."
Seemed fairly obvious to me:Jesus.
Died, resurrected, then ascended once the job was done.
***SPOILER***
The Cylons reach their kill limit and shut down.
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All those alcoholics gave up liquor? I DON'T THINK SO!!!
As much as that crew drank. I seriously doubt that "let's live as caveman" would have been seen as a solution. The epic DT's, Adama alone, would have to endure could be a spinoff show.
Such a lovely idea, integrating with the native peoples. Surely they will welcome the strange newcomers with open arms, rather than with spears through their intestines.
-- I prefer the term "karma escort."
A wizard did it.
Ron Moore doesn't like being called that...
(Honestly, the "guiding force" being the dude reading National Geographic in the last scene explains a lot)
1. Baltar takes down the Cylon mothership by uploading a virus using his Macbook. "Giving it a cold" indeed! Well played Dr. Baltar!
2. All the sixes move to what later becomes modern day Sweden.
Georgia Tech, the leader in Chia(tm) technology.
Also, at the very end, there were still plenty of skinjobs.
I've decided that "skinjob" is going to be my new non-PC term for an unusually attractive woman. EG: "Wow, check out that skinjob!"
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
I was expecting a Terminator to pop up at the end to replace the Cylons. As the angelic Number Six said (paraphrase), "If a complex system is run long enough, something different is bound to happen."
So in other words they killed a total of 65535 Humans?
"So, the moral of BSG is that I'm supposed to be afraid of my Roomba?"
It has a plan!!
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Not so. By starting over, humanity shed the cultural baggage that for so many cycles had them pointlessly cutting the corners off all their sheets of paper. It was the Final Perfection: In our current Cycle, we at last use rectangular paper, just as the Gods intended. Once we get our dancing robots working to their satisfaction, we will Ascend into the heavens and sitteth at the right hand of our Creators where we will join them in meddling capriciously in the petty affairs of less enlightened species for all eternity.
"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it." -- GBS
Remember... "it' doesn't like to be called God.
On the verge of being wiped out after a terribly harsh winter, our ancestors came across thirty thousand tasty colonists that tried to make friends with them.
Right, and I got the impression that the show's God (since "it doesn't like to be called that" as Angel Six said) falls into that sufficiently advanced category. Perhaps an ascended survivor of a much earlier cycle of death and rebirth, who still takes interest in the process.
So... Daniel Jackson did it?
You can't take the sky from me...
"I'm sorry but is that the judo christian God, or the god that BSG actually used?"
I didn't know judo christians had a different god than regular christians! What belt do you have to earn before they tell you about judo christian god?