I'm coming to the realization that Battlestar Galactica could very well be my favorite TV series, ever and it's making me wonder why I've been feeling more and more ambivalent as the last few episodes have been unspooling. They've certainly been good, and I'm sure part of it is that while they're giving call-backs to past episodes and kind of reveling in the idea that, "well, we're not going to be in this corridor ever again, we might was well give it a send-off" we all just want to know how it ends. The biggest thing is that we want someone, anyone in this Olympics of Despair to have a happy ending. That's what this show has been about since the first nuke exploded over Caprica, a happy ending for the human race, and short of the ONE TRUE GOD coming down, that's not going to happen for most of the cast we've come to love, let's give a quick run-down:President Roslin: They might as well be wheeling her around in a coffin for the next three episodes.
Adama: Will not survive. Because letting him live after both* of his true loves are gone is too much for the Old Man to bear. Speaking of his other true love....
Col. Tigh: Is it me or has this whole series been about Tigh? It' like he's the very definition of human fallibility and also of our nobility. Just an amazing character...which kinda sucks because the dude is screwed. There's no way he can have a happy ending, because his two loves are going to be eternally in conflict and other than Adama his other love....
Ellen Tigh: Has been set up as the fall
Boomer: Effectively damned herself with her abduction of Hera, unless she and Tyrol can somehow end up boxed together in the Barbie-dream-house she imagined for them. Speaking of...
Galen Tyrol: Yeah, without Boomer, dudes just a fat, single dad who can fix the hell outta a Viper. That's no happy ending.
Baltar: Let's face it, if this dude gets a happy ending, it's no happy ending for us. I like Baltar, the flashes of brilliance he used to get himself out of tight scrapes are just amazing at times, but eventually, he's going to be made to pay.
Tori: She was once really hot, then she got all Cylon and bitchy. Go away...no happy ending for you.
Hot Dog: Who the fuck cares about Hot Dog?
Anders: Well, it doesn't look good, figuring dude's got a bullet lodged in his brain and he's a Speak n' Spell right now, but, obviously he's going to have a major part to play coming up in the end seeing as how he's married to...
Starbuck: who is obviously the crux who the whole thing is revolving around (though I've never found her that interesting). However, no matter what she is, no matter what happens to her, she's probably not going to be happy, since she love both Anders and....
Lee Adama: Who has shown himself to be both bad-ass and milquetoast throughout the series. Hopefully our man will get a chance to shine in the next two weeks, but I just don't see him settling down with Starbuck and having little cigar-chomping, lawyers with her. He's dooooommmmedddddd.
Helo, Athena & Little Hera: They're it. These three are the only ones with a chance of redemption at the end, the only ones who have not betrayed their friends, whose trespasses are forgivable, who have kept the faith. At the end of the series, humanity/cylonity will rest upon this family and they are all we have.
Well, them and the hopes of a scene featuring Adama and Roslin going to work on Cavill with a pair of pliers and a blowtorch. But that's probably too much to hope for. What do you think?
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This is a tough one to talk about. All throughout the second half of Season 4 I've been left with an overall feeling of "eeehhh" which saddens because at one point I thought this show was completely unstoppable. I always felt like there was a general plan for how the series was gonna go, who the final cylons were gonna be and what impact they would have on their human counterparts but in light of what's been going on so far this season I know that's not the case.
I know the writers have an endpoint in mind but I just wish a little more thought had been put into how they were gonna get there. If anything, I always kinda hoped that the show would go out in its last run of episodes the way it came in: bang bang bang, one right after the other. What we've gotten instead is badly written exposition upon exposition in a show slowly limping along, almost gasping for breath but maybe that's the point; to illustrate that this whole thing just isn't gonna end well.
I'm trying to remain non-commital as far as opinions go until I've seen the overall product but truth be told, they're really gonna have to "wow" me in order for myself to have a general feeling of satisfaction.
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