Finished season 1, dling season 2
season 1's ending was amazing.
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The commander's the best character! :maf :maf :maf :'( He can't die! That skinny azn bitch better be beat to death! :maf
This show is sooooo good. Does it get better from here?
HOLY SHIT
The S3 finale
HOLY SHIT
i loved it up to the last five minutes and then i was like "really? well, ok"
thanks to neflix i will have finished season 2 by the end of the weekend
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I was mostly referring to the trial. Everything related to that was made of pure AWESOME (especially Baltar's attorney and Lee's character-redeeming speech). The big reveal, on the other hand, felt like a cheap twist, but it isn't anything compared to some of the stuff LOST has pulled, so I can live with it. I was kinda expecting something like this anyway ever since the #3 saw the final 5 in that temple and recognized them.
Just about to finish season 1. One thing I don't get. If Baltar knows
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that Boomer is a Cylon
why the fuck hasn't he said anything about it for the last 5 or so episodes? Does he really not care that he's putting the fleet at risk?
Don't worry they adequately explain this.
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I have to admit that Tigh grew on me big time after New Caprica. Sucks that his whore wife coming back from the dead resulted in the death of his unborn child :'(
Anyway, this season has been excellent so far, especially the mutiny. I haven't enjoyed the show this much since early S2. Maybe I was just burnt out though. I can't wait to see how it all wraps up, even though I've already had the finale semi-spoiled (the GOD DID IT angle mostly). I hope I'm not disappointed.
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I'm ashamed to admit that I damn near shed a tear in the last 20 minutes :-\ Especially when Adama is sitting by Roslin's grave talking about the view :'( :'(
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Maybe it's because I already had that spoiled for me that I was just inclined to go along with it, but weren't they playing up the whole "God's plan" angle since, like, the miniseries? How does that count as a deus ex machina?
I guess somewhere along the way I stopped caring so much about the plot (other than a resolution for Cavil & company) and fell in love with the characters, so maybe I'm just too willing to accept a cheap plot device. I was expecting it to be a LOT worse though, the way it was talked about.
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As others have said, just because the show had religious themes doesn't mean that it makes sense for God to show up and directly influence events. Plus it was just a stupid, rushed way to wrap up mysteries that couldn't have any other resolution (Starbuck's resurrection and knowledge). Any ending of this sort kind of begs the question as to why God didn't step in sooner if (S)he is not above directly meddling with affairs, and why even when God decided to intervene it still took 20-odd episodes to zap the humans to Earth.
Even beyond that, there are plenty of dumb things about the finale -- everyone agreeing to give up their technology, Cavil magically trusting the humans after a stupid Baltar speech, Caprica falls in love with Tigh and then has a miscarriage and then immediately falls back in love with Baltar, etc.
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"God Did It!" deus ex machina ending that makes the 4th Season seem mostly pointless.
I totally argee that the overall plotting was shoddy, but i reckon that's to be expected, considering the plotting \ mythology weren't planned out from day one. I think they did (mostly) a good job of making up the story as they go along without running into to many plot-holes, heck they even rationalized one in one episode.
BTW should't you spoiler that, since there are people itt who haven't watched season 4 yet. :lol
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I think it made perfect sense for 'god' to be revealed as influencing the events of the series, i mean prior to the finale i posted a list of unanswered questions on a orther forum and one of them was 'who is the cylon god?', it did come to conveniently though i guess, i was expecting much more detail on what the 'cylon \ one true god' was, maybe 'the plan' will shed some more light on this?
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As others have said, just because the show had religious themes doesn't mean that it makes sense for God to show up and directly influence events. Plus it was just a stupid, rushed way to wrap up mysteries that couldn't have any other resolution (Starbuck's resurrection and knowledge). Any ending of this sort kind of begs the question as to why God didn't step in sooner if (S)he is not above directly meddling with affairs, and why even when God decided to intervene it still took 20-odd episodes to zap the humans to Earth.
Even beyond that, there are plenty of dumb things about the finale -- everyone agreeing to give up their technology, Cavil magically trusting the humans after a stupid Baltar speech, Caprica falls in love with Tigh and then has a miscarriage and then immediately falls back in love with Baltar, etc.
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I still think there was enough in the previous seasons to support where the finale went. Head Six telling Gaius about God's plan in the miniseries (plus mentioning it hundreds of times throughout the show), Baltar repenting in the very first episode, Head Six telling Baltar that she is an angel S2 and S3, Head Six knowing that Adama was going to be shot, the humans and Cylons running into each other on the algae planet....plus, didn't she somehow know that Hera was still alive?
God sitting around with his thumb up his ass is the one thing that did bug me. Maybe he wanted everyone to get some personal growth from their journey. Maybe he wanted to see how far they would get on their own. Maybe he gets his jollies from fucking with people. Maybe he took a nap and overslept by a couple of years. I duno.
And yeah, everyone giving up their technology was a little far-fetched. I was never really happy with the way the writers created relationships out of thin air, so I can let the Caprica Six thing slide. I didn't think it was nearly as ridiculous as the pairing of Dualla and Lee, especially since before that they had maybe 3 minutes of screen time together. Starbuck falling in love with Anders after having a 3 day fling with him on Caprica was pretty silly, too.
I liked Saul for a while but then they turned him into a vagina.
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Oh, I almost forgot one of my favorite moments of the finale:
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I've already spilled like 15,000 words on why I think the ending wasfine, but it boils down to this: If you were watchig the show for a Lost-style dose of mythology and cunning plot, you were in the wrong place all along. It was a 100% character-based production and the real strength of the show lie in it's allegorical capabilities. Every character got a satisfying ending- I agree that the GOD DID IT ending can feel cheap, but that's the nature of faith. God comes to us in weird places and very suddenly. It's not a mistake that common prayer is to "Help us to see you". I loved it. I thought it was brave, not dumb. But again, I wasn't watching to find out ZOMG WHO IS THE 75TH CYLON.
That said, the last 5 minutes are as bad as the end of AI. Fuck that shit.