Honestly I did not like the series. It’s not Battlestar Galactica. Some of the core elements were there, like the look of the ship and the names of some of the characters, but the heart of it was some other sci-fi show. Had they completely changed the name I might have even liked it. Though I doubt it.
Yes, I’m one of those guys that couldn’t get over the fact that the show wrecked the characters. From taking leading characters and changing their race to changing their sex, the show was about putting a new idea in an old shell. Which I dislike.
But on occasion, when I was really bored I watched an episode or 2. Mostly I watched to see one thing. The relationship between Baltar and Six. That’s it. To me they were the most interesting characters in the whole show. Everyone else was just mostly a waste of time.
So in seeing that Baltar was a messed up kid that resented his father and his past, and yet came full circle to become exactly that was interesting. To see that Six and Baltar ultimately were to be together, because they deeply love each other was a welcome end to their story arcs.
I do have to say I find it interesting that most of the surviving people were all in Africa, yet not one of them are Black. Funny how that works out.
And Kara Thrace is a ghost, or angel, or some other wacky unexplained thing. I can enjoy that since I couldn’t buy her character as Starbuck or anything else and she is gone.
It’s funny to see the series end in the way it did. I mean the very last scenes. Where the internal head Six and Baltar, rip-offs of Harvey (as in Farscape), turn out to be weak versions of The Architect and Oracle (Matrix). With a bit of quasi-religious meaning thrown in. I found it especially humorous that the Six was taking the Oracle route in proclaiming that it won’t be an endless cycle, that it will change and essentially,
“Everything that has a beginning has an end.”
Preachy and a rip-off. But that is the nature of the show. Maybe if I could have been sucked into the show I would think otherwise, but I wasn’t. I’m sure fans will have lots to say about all the characters and meanings of it all. I’m just stuck with the plot-holes and copying of other, far better, sci-fi work.
Of course it all won’t end here. This is the SyFy Channel after all. There are going to be spin-offs and other takes on the story forever. Kind of like the way that Stargate will never end. Talk about repeating forever.
Maybe the Caprica series will be good. I doubt it from what I have heard. But at least that will be a fresh start. It may be a spin-off but at least it’s not a revisioning.
At least Eureka still looks to be going forward. So far.
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