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Some well-frakkin-deserved *quality for this one.

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Makes me miss BSG- but then makes me remember the betrayal of the creators at the ending. Deus ex machina FTL.

(no, this nerd has not forgiven)

>> ^dag:
Makes me miss BSG- but then makes me remember the betrayal of the creators at the ending. Deus ex machina FTL.
(no, this nerd has not forgiven)


dag, if the ending was the first time you noticed there was a teensy bit of supernatural and the 'divine' involved in the story, you might as well have not been watching at all. This nerd is at a loss as to why all the numerous allusions about the constant involvement of a god or gods in human and cylon plights were OK for you and others (gwiz among them, prominently) until the time came for the story to end. Then it's deus ex machina all of a sudden.

^I never got that either. I didn't find the themes of the ending particularily surprising or out of place at all. Loves me some BSG - glad I finally went through the series.

There was plenty of supernatural hints, but they kept it ambiguous enough that it made sense. The end betrays that completely. The constant involvement of prophecies, Baltar as Jesus was nicely tied up to be a massive hoax, and that would have made sense, instead it doesn't!

Raaaaaage! *smacks head on the table*

>> ^EDD:
>> ^dag:
Makes me miss BSG- but then makes me remember the betrayal of the creators at the ending. Deus ex machina FTL.
(no, this nerd has not forgiven)

dag, if the ending was the first time you noticed there was a teensy bit of supernatural and the 'divine' involved in the story, you might as well have not been watching at all. This nerd is at a loss as to why all the numerous allusions about the constant involvement of a god or gods in human and cylon plights were OK for you and others (gwiz among them, prominently) until the time came for the story to end. Then it's deus ex machina all of a sudden.

ok, here we go. *doublepromote an awesome song

Double-Promoting this video back to the front page; last published Tuesday, December 29th, 2009 6:53pm PST - doublepromote requested by NicoleBee.

I'm with dag for once. By Ron Moore's own admission, the writers painted themselves into a corner without a game plan, which I might be fine with if it wasn't so painfully obvious. I loved the mystery behind various things (head-Six's existence, Kara's apparent death and reappearance, the dreams and prophecies, etc.), but I expected an answer that made sense and wasn't completely out of place and so unsatisfying.

I don't resent them for a supernatural explanation, but I do for abandoning everything that was so good about the writing and settling on a pathetic and hollow deus ex machina. If you're going to write a show like this, for fuck's sakes, come up with a game plan. Ron Moore said the show was envisioned with a beginning, middle, and end, but I'll eat my liver if this was the ending he had in mind.

^Given the above, I'll grant you that. There were a lot of either misdirections or abandoned story hooks throughout the series. I may be easy to please, but it didn't bother me too much towards the end, for some reason I didn't feel so much like things needed to be explained as I needed to feel the collective relief of them finally managing to get to a place they could call home. That was the satisfaction in the culmination of this series for me.

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@Xax. Yep, this is my feeling as well. I didn't mind the supernatural aspects at all. It was the deception that there was a grand over-arching story that that they had a resolution for. All of the promos towards the end kept harping on the "all will be revealed" theme- and then ... at the end- what is revealed is that they had no idea how the story could resolve - and slapped together something horrible to try to fill in all the ugly, ugly plot holes they had created. Poor storytelling and, yes, a betrayal of fans who stuck with the show.

Here was my post-mortem from back in the day:
http://blog.videosift.com/dag/Finally-Finished-BSG