Spoilers, spoilers, spoilers.<\/p>\n
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1)<\/strong> So to me, the series as a whole seems to be a “Noah’s Ark” scenario. God creates humanity and (through humanity) God creates the Cylons. Then, when God decides that things aren’t working out well, God decides to wipe everyone out and start fresh. He decides to do this with a human\/cylon hybred. So the entire series is just showing us how God manipulates events so that virtually everyone is killed except for God’s chosen Eve, who is put in the right place to start things over.<\/p>\n Presumably, God has done this many times before. And will probably do it again.<\/p>\n 2)<\/strong> Charles pointed out to me that, looked at this way, three of the flashback scenes make more sense.<\/p>\n We saw Baltar act out of character (putting himself at grave risk to do a favor for a friend) — and if he hadn’t done that, humanity wouldn’t have been wiped out. We saw Adama suddenly change his life course from his planned cushy retirement — and if he hadn’t done that, he wouldn’t have been the commander of the Galactica, which he had to be for many reasons. And we saw Roslin suddenly reject her new lover and leap into politics, which she loathes.<\/p>\n In three cases, the characters made a snap decision that put them into place to fufill their part in God’s plan. In two of the cases, the decision made was out of character. It seems likely that the flashbacks showed critical moments when God intervened to put his pieces where they needed to be for the Plan.<\/p>\n 3)<\/strong> Baltar says that God is not good, God is not evil. God just has a plan. And knowing that the universe is so morally arbitrary makes the series much more satisfying to me.<\/p>\n So Tory’s secret comes out and is the end of her (and also the end of peace). Baltar’s far worse secret, in contrast, never really brings any harm to him, or to the genocidist he shacks up happily with. All is forgiven! Because there is no good, there is no evil; there’s only God’s plan, and wiping out humanity was the plan.<\/p>\n 4)<\/strong> We were told, for the first few seasons, that the Cylons had a plan. But they didn’t. But God did. Conclusion: God is a cylon.<\/em><\/p>\n 5)<\/strong> It was cool to see all the opera house imagery; i gasped and laughed at the final five reveal. Kinda a bummer that it was completely frakkin’ meaningless, because the peace agreement was all a red herring. (Thanks Elkins!)<\/p>\n 6)<\/strong> It was necessary for the plot, but this:<\/p>\n LEE ADAMA: Gosh, everyone should dump all tech and go back to the soil.<\/em><\/p>\n (Cut to a few weeks later.)<\/em><\/p>\n PRESIDENT LAMPKIN: Gosh, it was handy everyone agrees we should dump all tech and go back to the soil.<\/em><\/p>\n …Was bad, clumsy writing, and I Did Not Buy It.<\/p>\n 7) <\/strong>Space battles are dull.<\/p>\n 8) <\/strong>They’re even duller if writers aren’t willing to let main characters die. Sure, Boomer died, but that was it. It was the final episode; I would have liked to see some real stakes in the battle scenes.<\/p>\n 9)<\/strong> I really enjoyed this episode. I have complaints — I always have complaints. But it was a satisfying, flawed, and complicated ending to a satisfying, flawed, complicated show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Spoilers, spoilers, spoilers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-popular-and-unpopular-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}