I spent most of Saturday at Roboticon. It was a very nostalgic feeling, being re-united with my old teammates and one of my favorite high school teachers. Unfortunately, I had to cut it short as I had promised my friends from Waterloo that I would join them in the highly anticipated BSG finale party that was hosted by John. I got there at 8:30 PM and we started the episode after a half an hour of Rock Band and drinking.
I will begin with the conclusion. This finale left a bad taste for everyone. It felt as if we spent two hours watching how not to make a BSG finale. This episode was so bad that a re-run of last week’s episode would have been a more enjoyable watch. Although, as I have mentioned before, the series as a whole has been so entertaining that a disappointment was unavoidable. I will try to outline aspects of this episode that I disliked.
The flashback to the old days on the colonies failed to invoke any meaning in the story or explain any of the characters in the show. Displaying the admiral’s worst moments of alcoholism was nothing new to the show and the notion of a new job that he was considering to undertake was simply confusing and out of place in the grander scheme of things. Of course, this was all supposed to make more sense by Colonel Tigh’s frantic screams in a strip bar.
To further exacerbate the situation, the main villain in the show (Number One) is won over by one of Baltar’s everyday rants. Interestingly enough, he realizes the lunacy in listening to Baltar and shoots himself in a moment’s chaos. This ending almost makes the rest of the conflicts in the show seem pointless and insignificant.
Of course, the most significant controversy is Starbuck. She is portrayed to be a figment of everyone’s imagination and disappears into thin air at the end of the show. Everything with regards to her death is left unexplained. Instead, we are presented with a weak outlook of Earth 150,000 years in the future in order to compare the similarity of Toyota’s dancing robots to full-fledged Cylons.
If you think that all of the points above are reason enough to hate this episode, then you will be surprised that I have saved the biggest reason. The 29,000 survivors of the human race decide to erase their advancements in technology by ramming the fleet into the sun in order to start a clean slate on Earth. By the way, this was all Lee’s idea (go figure). The Chief decides to take up living in the arctic after strangling one of the final five for killing his wife. The same wife that cheated on him and was carrying a child that wasn’t his.
A lot happened in this episode, but the events were mostly out of place and failed to explain any of the themes in the show. In my opinion, it is best to ignore this episode and pretend that the show ended last week and was somehow discontinued by Fox, much like Firefly.
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