Battlestar Galactica finale *spoilers*

[Neri]

Maybe Chief is the first Highlander.  Hello, fan-fiction!

[Amusing Pseudonym]

NASA spots a Cylon Basestar, pretends it's a couple of asteroids...


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/03/asteroid-collision-sugges_n_446179.html

[Dalton]

I've been looking at this story on Netflix.  This is some show!  I'm in the middle of season 3.

[Tarrik Dane]

Yeah I didnt start watching it until after it was cancelled. I wish I(and more people) had caught on when it was still on the air. I thought the original was dumb so I never watched the remake until it was too late.

[Dalton]

Yeah I didnt start watching it until after it was cancelled. I wish I(and more people) had caught on when it was still on the air. I thought the original was dumb so I never watched the remake until it was too late.

I like the original but obviously the remake is a thousand times better.

[ScottE]

The remake is great for the first two, two and a half seasons. It loses steam towards the end of the third season and has a completely disappointing finale. I kinda wish it had ended with them settling on New Caprica.

[Dobbin]

The remake is great for the first two, two and a half seasons. It loses steam towards the end of the third season and has a completely disappointing finale. I kinda wish it had ended with them settling on New Caprica.

Yeah. I thought it was also complicated by the real-world casting of main characters in other shows, and then their re-availability when said shows went kaput.

[Rev Danny]

I had quite a few problems with the finale, least of all the painfully obvious (and completely nonsensical) "they were in our past the whole time!"

Actually, now that I think about it, no, that is the biggest flaw in the finale. I completely believe it was their intent from episode one, because I remember having fears about the possibility during the first season, and it's far more contrived than the overall "God did it" aspect.

But there were also a lot of little things throughout the show that really soured me; the misogynism (the Dualla/Billy thing was especially bad), the inconsistent logic.... but also I saw a lot of wasted potential; at the end of Season 2 (I think?), when Cavil gives the speech about the war and how the Cylons were acting human, and instead they were leaving to the best machines they could be, I was psyched. I wanted to see that, I wanted to see what he meant, what would happen... instead they immediately turn around and behave like the Nazis. I also wished for a season arc, or episode plot, or hell even for ONE character to point out that if humans and Cylons can reproduce, then how different can they be? No depth, no philosophical discussion about humanity, nothing.

[Sean with a Capital S]

(I'm just gonna go ahead and bump this.)

So I was laid out with strep throat last weekend and managed to get through all of seasons 3 and 4 in a couple of days.  I had watched the first two seasons about three years ago, but it all came back pretty fast.

I have to say that this show may be one of my favourite one-hour dramas.  It definitely has problems, but taking it as a whole, I really, really enjoyed it.  (Disclaimer: Dayquil may have affected these judgments.)

I think it was really the strength of the characters that allowed me to get over some of the stuff I thought was silly (love-babies, unexplained Starbuck, ancient Africa).  I can't defend any of those faults, but ultimately they just don't bother me that much.  I'll gladly take them if it means getting to see at least decent storylines involving Chief, Adama, Tigh, etc.  And I think that Gaius Baltar is one of the most entertaining quasi-bad-guys of all time.  There were moments when I thought I'd get sick of him, but I never really did.  Even the lesser characters, who often seemed just pointless, were ultimately used in interesting ways (Gaeta, Tory to some extent--maybe just because I have a TV-crush on her) or at least to make a point (Dualla).

Conclusion: this was a flawed, but basically great show that I think will have some rewatch value for me personally.  (I can imagine trying to get someone who's never seen it to watch it through with me from the beginning, for example.)

[Amusing Pseudonym]

Gaius Baltar is one of the most entertaining quasi-bad-guys of all time. 

Tory... I have a TV-crush on her

Seconded.

[MattKelly]

Quite a coincidence here, as I JUST finished the finale a few hours ago as well.

I won't belabor it, but suffice it to say I found the show as a whole to be a masterpiece.  There are a few loose threads at the end, but that's what they are: LOOSE threads.  There is a world of difference between the vague danglings Moore left behind and the concrete impasses Lindelof and Cuse lobbed out during LOST's tenure.

Is THE PLAN worth watching?  I feel like I have most of the back story figured out.  But then again, I AM a completest...I'm sure I'll watch it shortly.

[Scott Taylor]

Callie is so annoying I put her in my dead pool.

[Tarrik Dane]

Is THE PLAN worth watching?

Nope, its like a clip show with new bits thrown in

[Neri]

I just rewatched the whole thing recently and it's still great even when you know exactly what's coming.  They ended it at the right time too.  The last ten episodes were pretty spotty but the mutiny stuff was great. 

And how about Fat Apollo?

[MattKelly]

Callie is obnoxious, true statement.  But I like her on New Caprica. I met her last year at the NY Comic Con and she was a peach.

I won't make my wife watch THE PLAN but I still think I may sit through it.  I love the Final Five and any new material with them is surely worth a clip show.

As Chris pointed out, it is very impressive that they ended at season four.  This is probably another example proving the "less episodes equals better show" concept as discussed in THE OFFICE UK vs. THE OFFICE USA thread.