The Last Battlestar
March 23rd, 2009 6
Please don’t judge me too harshly, but for the past couple of years I’ve been nurturing a love affair with a TV program.
Sometimes my inner geek just gets the better of my and I have to feed it, but its usually left disappointed and unfulfilled when a show inevitably outlives it’s natural life but continues to be made as it’s a “bit of a money spinner”1. But not so with BSG. And yeah, its a sordid little secret, but I just can’t help myself.
If (for some insane reason) you haven’t been keeping up with the Adama’s the last episode aired this last Friday. While I’m a little sad to see it go, I’m so glad at least it (almost) gets an ending, and didn’t just peter out when the main cast all leave and the writers run out of ideas. If you’ve got no idea whats occurring in the BSG Universe, you can check out the basic plot - although I’m guessing if you’re not into it, you’ve stopped reading by now anyway.
A Fitting End
Warning - Spoilers!
The ending was, to be honest, annoyingly obvious. They find Earth, and it turns out that the entire thing has been set 150,000 years in our past - so the Humans and Cylons that come to (our) Earth are what gave rise to modern man - a common ancestor.
All the survivors agree to send the ships into the Sun and live amongst the prehistoric humans with little or no technology.
And it turns out Baltar wasn’t crazy after all, and the “Angel 6″ that only he can see is a messenger from God, as is Starbuck - but in a slightly different way. The music she remembers playing as a child (and that Hara wrote down) was really the jump co-ordinates to Earth. So the whole thing was engineered by this ‘cosmic entity’ AKA God (although “He doesn’t like that name”).
The character development and personal stories were, as always, top-notch - But it just felt a little like a cop-out. It didn’t really explain why Starbuck was told she was the “Harbinger of Death” - when in fact she was the one who took them to their salvation. Nor, how if the Humans created the Cylons, how is it possible that the Human Cylons had existed for thousands of years? - Unless they’d met-up with them between the first and second wars. Who knows.
There’s a new TV Film coming called “The Plan” - So I guess that’ll fill in some of the holes.
I am, despite some of the ending, still a big fan - But now I need to find another Sci-Fi treat to fill the void that BSG has left. Suggestions (and p*** taking) are most welcome.
1 *Cough* Stargate SG1 *Cough*
