An Easterly View....

[rogueslayer452]

I realized I never really talked about the Battlestar Galactica series finale, or gave my opinion on it after it aired. I think due to the incredible polarized reaction by fandom I was kind of standing back from it a bit. Perhaps I will one day give my full overview of my thoughts and everything, but as it stands I will say I absolutely adored it, and the more I rewatch it the more I appreciate and love how it all ended and I couldn't have pictured a better ending to a fantastic series.

But today I want to discuss something that the finale touched on that I've been thinking about lately.

The decision of abandoning technology has been much for debate amongst fans, I have thought about it over and over again and while I do agree that the finale was kind of quick to clean things up a bit, I don't have a huge problem with them abandoning technology and living simple rural lifestyles. I don't think all the humans (and even Cylons) agreed to abandon everything completely, and I'm sure it took much persuasion and they kept certain things they needed to survive, esp if they were going off separately all over the planet, but after everything I think most just wanted good, solid ground underneath their feet. Being on the run, jumping back and forth through space in a confined space as the ships they were on, I think many had their share of technology and wanted a fresh start. Was it the smartest decision to make? Probably not, but I don't think it was unrealistic or illogically done so they could have the cycle repeat with the epilogue meta in the end (which I loved, by the way.)

I'm not denying that the finale wasn't perfect and had its fair share of issues here and there, but overall I wasn't overly bothered by that aspect like a lot of people seem to be, and I don't think it deserves the hate it receives, tbqh.


Yeah, I just have a lot of ~feelings about this finale and this series in general.

On a related note, my Caprica toaster finally arrived! \O/ I contemplated on getting it, going back and forth on "do I really need it?" since I really don't eat toast, but finally ended up going "fuck it" and buying it anyway. Let me say that if it had stayed the original price I wouldn't even bother, but since they lowered it way down I just couldn't resist. ;p

Comments

[noybusiness.livejournal.com]

I second your opinion.

[mfirefly10.livejournal.com]

While there were plenty of things that bugged me about the finale, I do think it was one of the stronger episodes of season 4.5 and had many really lovely moments.

[philstar22.livejournal.com]

I would hope they would at least keep medical technology and medicines. Because otherwise, they would all die out pretty quickly. A new planet with diseases they have no immunity for would be pretty hard to overcome otherwise.

Personally, I loved the final. I loved the way it wrapped up the series and yet still left some questions opened. I loved how each character got a fitting end to their story.

[nicole-anell.livejournal.com]

(hugs) You know I adore the finale - the last 30 minutes of it anyway - and while I mock the technology-into-the-sun thing I think it's mostly a case of RDM going for emotional resonance over nitty-gritty details. I do get annoyed sometimes when people insist all the MEDICINE went away (whatever limited resources they still had of it) because obviously nobody meant to imply that -- authorial intent was that they unloaded a ton of supplies with them, and I never assumed anything else.

I think people also forget what a crap-ass existence it was to live on those spaceships, and while the show often handwaved all the resources and necessities (including booze!) they still had, the final season was dropping anvils left and right that all that technology was unsustainable and Galactica itself was in its death throes. I'm not saying there's no weird reactionary undercurrent to "we're gonna restart our whole civilization and be farmers yay", but I think it fits in the universe with these characters.

YAY CAPRICA TOASTER!