It’s been long enough since BSG’s disappointing ending that I’d almost put it behind me.
Thanks, BD, for pointing me to this excellent analysis of where exactly BSG went wrong — how it came so close to greatness, but for an ending that the author Brad Templeton calls, “the most disappointing ending ever.” And how, ultimately, that’s a huge crying shame.
It’s a good analysis, and I agree with nearly everything he has to say. Worth reading if you still care about BSG.
*sigh*
Of all the words of tongue or pen, these are the saddest: “It might have been.”
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Watching “AI” was great; it was like Kubrick was back among us right up until the tacked-on Spielberg ending, when I had to rinse the Karo syrup out of my mouth. A great movie, but I just can’t watch it again.
I have an entire season of BSG still in its wrapper, which I cannot watch. Wonderful drama of characters I love, but I know the awful ending. The season sits there, mocking me.
Yeah….
When I was reading that and the list of all the plot points that now had to be the “god does something here” parts I just sat there yelling YES! in my head.
That and I was very glad that he mentioned the Tomb of Athena and how that whole episode got tossed out and now is pointless and nothing more than joke on the viewer now.
Yeah, that whole Tomb of Athena thing … it’s like you get to the end of Return of the Jedi and it turns out that Darth Vader is really not related to Luke at all — “Oh, yeah, sorry, we didn’t think that whole scene in Empire through very well, guess it kind of led the fans off in the wrong direction …”
Huh.
Your pic of the Galactica looks like a very cool Sharper Image Dustbuster.
Probably never would have noticed that if I hadn’t seen the last episode.
One thing I will forever laud them for getting “right” is that Galactica, over the seasons, got more and more beat up. The above shot is from the very beginning, bright and shiny. By the end, irrespective of the internal problems it was having, the exterior looked like it had been through several war. Well done.
Oh, they got LOTS of stuff right! Such as the use of bullets instead of ray guns. And in an episode where a hangar had to be repaired and access panels were removed that had been in place since Galactica was built, it was dark and filthy behind the panel, and the stuff there looked like real wiring. Many examples.
I loved the (justified-in-show) old bakelite phone handsets, too. The show definitely had the grittiness factor down solid, both in setting and in characters. A lot to like about it, hence the disappointment by the deus ex machina at the end.