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Thursday 23 April 2009

Galactica, or how to ruin an otherwise great series in few weeks

It's been a few weeks already, and I've tried to make some sense of the last few episodes of Battlestar Galactica, as well as of the series finale...

And I can't, seriously... The ending is probably the worst, more incoherent possible finale possible, it's like the ending of AI -completly gratuitious, and ruins most of the good things of the series-. But I think the problem is very much like the problems you can see in Babylon 5 4th season, and it's bastarized 5th season: in the 4th everything becames too fast, without dept because they were to cancel the series 1 season in advance, and the 5th tries to pave the road for a franchise but fails because of its poor cast choices -Tracy Scoggins plainly sucks, they could have used even Paula Price which besides having a resemblance to Claudia Christian could have had better acting skills that those shown by T.S.-.

BSG has a similar problem, but it's solved even worse than in Babylon 5, the 4th season, especially its second half, has too many filler episodes, some argumental mistakes -the Daniel stuff wasn't really bad by itself, it was bad because its one of the last minute inconsistencies- and a very unlikely end.

After all what the colonials have endured, it simply does not look likely that they'll choose to willingly abandon technology and return to the land, as civilized primitives, even less possible that is an unanimous posture among them -I might accept that some will chose to live that way, but by no means, everyone-. And what about the human-cylons? and the centurions? Both are treated like they were 2nd row influences in the series, only mention in the slightest subtle way...

And what about Kara? She vanishes in thin air without further explanation...And the 'angels'? Well they gave a lot of importance to the religious part of the series, but I think everyone was expecting something more plausible than let everything in the air as a "God Plan" kind of bullshit. To me it looks like they chose this solution because they didn't know how to end the series -the "Daniel" issue- in time and tried to improvise to give it a decent ending -which they didn't- and failed miserabily.

Also they leave as futile argument lines all the hybrids, and the final 5 leaded by Helen Tight -which by the way was evident from season one that it was a cylon, remember the blood test?- remain as a monument to scriptwritters stupidity: What kind of idiot stays side by side with someone whose wife have you killed his wife a short time ago? How come they don't have a securestore with the resurrection technology on it -the h-cylons look intelligent enough for that-? How they really joined the colonial cylons? Too many loose ends, few consistent answers...

In short, a great series but with probably the worst finale possible.