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Monday, March 23, 2009

This is Steven Petrick Posting.

Battlestar Galactica has come to an end. Those involved in it have done and aired a special to tell us how proud they are of the ending, and how proud we all should be of the ending they have crafted for us.

I am not one of those who found the anti-climatic ending that followed the big battle scene at all satisfactory.

Is it the worst ending of all time? Well . . . depends on your own viewpoint. I found it very hard to see something positive in 39,615 people voluntarily committing mass suicide. I seriously wonder under such circumstances, how many of them were alive at the end of the first year. Galen Tyrol decided to go to Scotland from the sound of things. With just the clothes on his back and what he could carry, I doubt he survived the first winter. How many of the colonists do you suppose were taken by wolves, lions, and etc.? How many died from eating the wrong thing?

And as others have pointed out elsewhere, they lost all semblance of their civilization and culture. Reverted completely to savagery. Lost the ability to write, much less read.

It was a stupid ending, very poorly thought out beyond the simple "would it not be neat".

We, the viewers, deserved far better than the show delivered.