I thought the finale of BSG was terrific. Then again, I’m usually forgiving of logical gaps when I get emotional closure of plots and character arcs, like I did here. (One of those logical gaps: weren’t the 12 constellations that form the signs of our Zodiac already visible from the radioactive Earth where the cast landed at the beginning of this season? Isn’t that why they knew it was Earth?)
I think it’s rare that writers know how a TV series is going to wrap up when they begin it — or even when they’re halfway through it. It’s just part of the nature of an open-ended TV show, unlike a book or movie that is planned out from the start. Given that the writers surely pulled stuff out of their asses after writing themselves into several corners, I thought they wrapped things up in a remarkably satisfying way. Even though the answers didn’t all make perfect sense, we did get answers, and darn fulfilling ones, in my opinion. (Not to mention a big, crazy-ass battle, which is always fun.)
And those final couple of minutes, with our species’ present-day development of better and better robots as an omen for the future — that creeped me the hell out. Is that where we’re headed?
We always wondered whether BSG took place in our future or in our past. We now realize that it was both, in a way. There is no future or past — everything recurs. Kobol, Caprica, the old Earth… the cycle repeats itself.
There must be some way out of here.