after about 5 people whose opinions I trust told me to watch the show, I did. About a month ago. Just watched the finale last night.
Thoughts:
- frak WAS annoying and weird until more than halfway through. I don't think I was really accepting it until the end of season 3.
- I liked Tigh's character all the way through. He was SOOO funny. My two favourite quotes were:
to Gaida, when they were trying to repel the Cylon virus: "I trust you over that shifty bastard [Baltar] any day"
to no one in particular, during the mutiny, right after they get rescued from the brig: "take her [Hera] to Baltar's harem. Nobody wants to go near those nutjobs"
- I also really liked Baltar's character for the first couple of seasons. Much in the same way I like Michael Scott from The Office. You love to hate him. He was SOOOOO sketchy and SOOOOO awkward it was amazing. And you have to laugh at the fact that things work out beautifully for him every step of the way. AND half of the scenes in the show he is in bed with a gorgeous cylon or two... hahahaha
- I liked how much more "realistic" the show was than my old favourite, TNG. Though of course you could look at it as a cop out too... space travel, artificial gravity, but NOTHING else has changed??? But I'm not talking about the technology so much as the fact that they need food, fuel, raw materials. On the enterprise, all of these were available in unlimited supply.
- really liked "Along the watchtower", and the introductory credits theme to the show.
ummm, wow. realizing there is way too much to be on reasonable length. So many things to talk about but... it's all kind of too far back.
Anyways, great show. good ending.
I thought...
that the scene at CIC when Chief strangles Torri to death was totally proper. And the response: "It's a trap!" and subsequent killing of the "bad" cylons made sense... what didn't make sense was the totally deux ex machina way that the dead racetrack accidentally launched the nukes at the exact perfect time.
I think that
the starbuck ending must mean that she was equivalent to Baltar's Six and Caprica's Baltar ghosts. With the distinction that everyone could see her. As for her being able to interact with the real world, there were many scenes where Baltar would be in a weird, awkward position that could only be explained by an invisible Caprica physically pulling him up by his shirt collar or what have you.
And finally
the way that humans and the remaining cylons got to our planet was not bad. As mentioned in this thread, they tied everything up pretty well. As the sunglasses wearing lawyer dude said: "I'm very surprised at how willing everyone was to give up what little creature comforts they had left". I mean, just like that they gave up space travel, interplanetary travel, and flight... oh and cities and electricity and well... all technology.
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