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westothemax · 03-23-2009, 09:29 AM

Finally got time to watch the finale last night. Overall I liked it.

Athena seemed pretty reserved when dealing with Boomer. You'd think it'd be more like she pulls out her sidearm, pistol whips Boomer so she's on her knees, then executes her. At least that's what my wife would do if some crazy bitch beat the shit out of her, raped me, and then stole our kid.

Cavill's exit was priceless and kind of funny. Tory's exit was intense but fitting.

I don't think I buy the whole idea of sending all their tech into the sun to start over. I think with 38k people, some would not be willing to revert to stone age tech. Perhaps a group of survivors who wanted to hang on to their technology could've built a city on an island off the coast of Africa that the writers would imply was "Atlantis". Or something cutesy like that.

I felt like the way they handled Starbuck was kind of a cop out. But I read the post-episode Q&A and I guess I agree that it was better than if they had tried to explain it. Edit - I guess to expand on this after thinking about it some more, I liked Starbucks exit way more than if they had tried to work in something hokey like time travel or tried to explicitly explain she is not Starbuck the Grey, but now Starbuck the White or something. I guess my thinking is it could've been worse, and I don't think it was possible for the writers to come up with a good explanation that everyone would be happy with.

The end scene was kind of weird. Instead of Hendrix's version of Watchtower blaring, they should've just kept it playing quietly on the guy's radio in the background or maybe a street musician playing it, as a subtle reference. Instead of close ups of roombas and the creepy girl robot I saw on Engadget, just have the camera pan past a store showing the robots on TV briefly or something. I guess they did this to really get their point across, but for me it didn't seem like it really fit in with the previous hour and forty five minutes or whatever.

Also its kind of weird to think, God's whole plan for the Colonials and Cylons was to have Helo and Athena make Hera and then have her safely transported to New Earth so that she could get busy with some cavemen to make the species evolve into modern day humans.

03-23-2009, 09:29 AM	#1033 (permalink)
westothemax Insane Location: Bay Area	Finally got time to watch the finale last night. Overall I liked it. Athena seemed pretty reserved when dealing with Boomer. You'd think it'd be more like she pulls out her sidearm, pistol whips Boomer so she's on her knees, then executes her. At least that's what my wife would do if some crazy bitch beat the shit out of her, raped me, and then stole our kid. Cavill's exit was priceless and kind of funny. Tory's exit was intense but fitting. I don't think I buy the whole idea of sending all their tech into the sun to start over. I think with 38k people, some would not be willing to revert to stone age tech. Perhaps a group of survivors who wanted to hang on to their technology could've built a city on an island off the coast of Africa that the writers would imply was "Atlantis". Or something cutesy like that. I felt like the way they handled Starbuck was kind of a cop out. But I read the post-episode Q&A and I guess I agree that it was better than if they had tried to explain it. Edit - I guess to expand on this after thinking about it some more, I liked Starbucks exit way more than if they had tried to work in something hokey like time travel or tried to explicitly explain she is not Starbuck the Grey, but now Starbuck the White or something. I guess my thinking is it could've been worse, and I don't think it was possible for the writers to come up with a good explanation that everyone would be happy with. The end scene was kind of weird. Instead of Hendrix's version of Watchtower blaring, they should've just kept it playing quietly on the guy's radio in the background or maybe a street musician playing it, as a subtle reference. Instead of close ups of roombas and the creepy girl robot I saw on Engadget, just have the camera pan past a store showing the robots on TV briefly or something. I guess they did this to really get their point across, but for me it didn't seem like it really fit in with the previous hour and forty five minutes or whatever. Also its kind of weird to think, God's whole plan for the Colonials and Cylons was to have Helo and Athena make Hera and then have her safely transported to New Earth so that she could get busy with some cavemen to make the species evolve into modern day humans. Last edited by westothemax; 03-23-2009 at 01:00 PM..