Finally finished Battlestar Galactica

[roguerower]

Finished watching Battlestar Galactica today and I have gotta say that I think that it is one of the best TV shows that I've ever seen. The plot was compelling, the characters fit their roles well, and best of all was that the producers knew when to end it! That show finale was great! Now I just have to watch The Plan and Caprica. Hopefully they are good as well.

Who woulda thought that something good could come out of SciFi?

 

[theflyingpig]

It was wonderful, wasn't it. Each episode was an escape into heaven for me.

 

[rcpratt]

Ehh. Series was good, the ending not so much. But it was worth it, overall.

I did really enjoy The Plan. Watched like two minutes of Caprica before I turned that off.

 

[Kreon]

Definately an awesome series.

The plan is really good, so is Razor (if you didn't include that in watching the series).

Caprica was also good, but in a different way (I'm talking about the film/pilot, not the series, haven't seen that yet). If I had just sat down to watch that without having seen BSG, it would suck. But seeing how the cylons came to be was really neat for me.

 

[techs]

Haters are gonna hate the ending no matter what.
It really was great entertainment and very well done. On a very limited budget.
It's what the SighFy channel should be doing instead of a lame-o poor imitation Stargate:Universe.

Tip to SighFy. Just shooting a show with shaky cameras in dark corridors with characters who are conflicted is not great SciFi.

 

[eLiu]

I *hated* the ending. For me, roughly the last half of the last season just ruined the whole thing. I try not to remember those terrible episodes.

Otherwise, loved it.

 

[techs]

btw I am rewatching the series on Netflix streaming while I am on the treadmill every day. I am now at the Pegasus episodes.

 

[RocksteadyDotNet]

Yeah, we don't talk about the finale.

 

[roguerower]

Really? I loved the finale (at least the end of it. I think they shoulda fucking shot all the cylons). Didn't quite like the way the Kara Thrace thing worked out but I think that the way everything ended was done well. Tyrol leaving to go by himself was fitting. I got choked up at the part with the Admiral and Roslin. And the last little bit of banter between Caprica & Baltar in NYC left me with a smile on my face.

The series was well done. It was definitely different going back and rewatching the first 3 seasons and then watching the 4th one for the first time.

The whole Kara Thrace thing pissed me off a bit. Really wanted to know what was going on there. The whole "angel/ghost" thing was a bit maddening.

 

[theflyingpig]

Really? I loved the finale (at least the end of it. I think they shoulda fucking shot all the cylons). Didn't quite like the way the Kara Thrace thing worked out but I think that the way everything ended was done well. Tyrol leaving to go by himself was fitting. I got choked up at the part with the Admiral and Roslin. And the last little bit of banter between Caprica & Baltar in NYC left me with a smile on my face.

The series was well done. It was definitely different going back and rewatching the first 3 seasons and then watching the 4th one for the first time.

The whole Kara Thrace thing pissed me off a bit. Really wanted to know what was going on there. The whole "angel/ghost" thing was a bit maddening.

I liked the finale too. Shttiest thing about it was Racetrack dying. She shoulda made it to Earf. Everyone knows this.

 

[Crono]

I actually liked the finale more than most of the last 2 seasons.

The show got bogged down with repetitive drama and only resumed some semblance of its former self before the final season ended.

BSG isn't my favorite science fiction show, but it had it's moments as a series.

 

[techs]

I actually liked the finale more than most of the last 2 seasons.

The show got bogged down with repetitive drama and only resumed some semblance of its former self before the final season ended.

BSG isn't my favorite science fiction show, but it had it's moments as a series.

They got bogged down a bit during the New Caprica storyline(or as some people called it Battlestar Iraqitca) but when they finally bust out it had some of the best scenes of the series. Galactica jumping into the atmosphere, the end of the Pegasus.
What I have noticed is that if you watch it straight thru its much more enjoyable without the long breaks the show took.

 

[roguerower]

They got bogged down a bit during the New Caprica storyline(or as some people called it Battlestar Iraqitca) but when they finally bust out it had some of the best scenes of the series. Galactica jumping into the atmosphere, the end of the Pegasus.
What I have noticed is that if you watch it straight thru its much more enjoyable without the long breaks the show took.

This x1000.

Got to watch it straight through on BR and it was so much better than having to wait forever for something to happen. It always seemed like the action was spread so thin when it first aired, almost like they blew their entire budget on a couple of fight scenes and then had to go with plot development until the finale. Not so much when you can watch it back to back.

Again, I think the best thing was that it got cut off after 4 seasons. The producers didn't try and extend it, they didn't try to alter it, they were able to realize that it was done and that it needed to be wrapped up.

EDIT: So was Jimi Hendrix a Cylon? I really like the BSG version of All Along the Watchtower

 

[destrekor]

They got bogged down a bit during the New Caprica storyline(or as some people called it Battlestar Iraqitca) but when they finally bust out it had some of the best scenes of the series. Galactica jumping into the atmosphere, the end of the Pegasus.
What I have noticed is that if you watch it straight thru its much more enjoyable without the long breaks the show took.

And that's basically what I did. I never watched it when it was on TV, and then decided to watch the mini-series. I was hooked like a motherfucker, couldn't quit. Blazed through all four seasons, and I can not say I was disappointed in any single plot-arc.
I wasn't entirely watching it to see sci-fi craziness. It was a show about a group doing everything it could to survive, but a large enough group that demanded political order... a very shaky, tense political atmosphere. The drama of surviving not only the enemy, but surviving each other, when you don't always agree with every decision but ultimately have to stay together to keep your species alive? The fact that the show was so dark, so gritty, and really just pure drama and politics, completely sold it for me. It being in space was really only a plot backdrop to sell the story of the characters.

The finale was, well... interesting. I didn't hate it, and thought it could have been different and maybe a little better... but in the end I thought it was a fitting piece of closure.

It's the same reason I enjoy Caprica. It's not as gritty, but it's still a fairly solid drama wrapped around a futuristic backdrop. Each show posed a lot of questions regarding ethics, morality, and political decisions, and portrayed fairly spot-on characters if you take their environment and motivations into consideration.
Caprica got canceled, and while that was expected, I'm sad to see it go. It would have been a good two-season show. I still need to find those last 4 episodes that never got aired on Sci-fi (at least they could do the fans a favor and show how the season/show ends), so maybe they brought some conclusions to the plot-arc.

 

[lupi]

greatest scifi series ever as long as you don't watch the last 5 minutes.

 

[Crono]

EDIT: So was Jimi Hendrix a Cylon? I really like the BSG version of All Along the Watchtower

Nah, Bob Dylan was, Hendrix had nothing to do with it

And I absolutely love that song... probably somewhere in my top 5 of all time. Bear McCreary did a good job on composing that rendition of it. It really gets into your head, especially the way it weaves in throughout the course of the show. Perfect song for the show, considering it's about the fall of Babylon, which can also represent collective humanity destroying itself whenever given the opportunity throughout history. There aren't many shows or movies that make such good thematic use of one song.

Even the "Kara Remembers" piano version is phenomenal.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Battlestar Galactica was pretty good but suffered from schizophrenia, like they flipped a coin to see which writer got to do the next episode. It was very disconcerting.

 

[timosyy]

Yeah I marathon'd Battlestar: Galactica during finals week my last year of college (already had a job lined up and stuff, only had like two finals).

I think watching it end-to-end in such a short time period made me appreciate it more, because I don't really find myself agreeing with much of the criticism.

 

[roguerower]

Nah, Bob Dylan was, Hendrix had nothing to do with it

And I absolutely love that song... probably somewhere in my top 5 of all time. Bear McCreary did a good job on composing that rendition of it. It really gets into your head, especially the way it weaves in throughout the course of the show. Perfect song for the show, considering it's about the fall of Babylon, which can also represent collective humanity destroying itself whenever given the opportunity throughout history. There aren't many shows or movies that make such good thematic use of one song.

Even the "Kara Remembers" piano version is phenomenal.

When they first played the full version in the nebula my skin crawled and when Kara ended up playing it on the piano that was just eerie.

Yeah I marathon'd Battlestar: Galactica during finals week my last year of college (already had a job lined up and stuff, only had like two finals).

I think watching it end-to-end in such a short time period made me appreciate it more, because I don't really find myself agreeing with much of the criticism.

Agreed. Watching it one after another without the stupid disruptions the show had is the only way to watch it. BR made it even better.

Battlestar Galactica was pretty good but suffered from schizophrenia, like they flipped a coin to see which writer got to do the next episode. It was very disconcerting.

See above comment.

 

[acheron]

I loved it. Including the ending. I haven't tried to rewatch it though, I'm still wondering how it will hold up on a second viewing. Babylon 5 holds up on rewatches, but the writers on BSG were winging it much more. E.g., it was obvious, even on the first watch, that they hadn't planned out the "final five" thing whatsoever, and I have a feeling some of the earlier episodes are going to seem a little funny with the knowledge of what's coming.

and when Kara ended up playing it on the piano that was just eerie.

One of my favorite scenes that I remember. I didn't catch onto what it was until they did the full duet thing.

 

[ichy]

I loved the first two seasons, but I thought it went downhill after that. When BSG was good though it was really good. I recently re-watched the episodes with Admiral Cain & Pegasus and the scenes where Cain & Adama are facing off are frikking awesome.

 

[techs]

I loved it. Including the ending. I haven't tried to rewatch it though, I'm still wondering how it will hold up on a second viewing. Babylon 5 holds up on rewatches, but the writers on BSG were winging it much more. E.g., it was obvious, even on the first watch, that they hadn't planned out the "final five" thing whatsoever, and I have a feeling some of the earlier episodes are going to seem a little funny with the knowledge of what's coming.

One of my favorite scenes that I remember. I didn't catch onto what it was until they did the full duet thing.

But they did give hints that many of the characters who turned out to be the final five were cylons. You just have to ignore the misleading hints. Remember that Baltar tested Ellen Tighe when she first appeared and had a knowing look when Six asked him if she was a Cylon.