Current Events > I have never seen Battlestar Galatica, what was so bad about the ending?SPOILERS

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I haven't seen the original or the remake but Battlestar Galatica fans from across the world always say the exact same things.

1. The show is good

2. The ending is one of the worst in television history.

What was so bad about it?

Go into spoilers if you like, I'll probably never watch it.

Is it like St Elsewhere where the ending was everything was actually a daydream of an kid while he looked into a snowglobe?

Or is it like Mortal Kombat Konquest where the ending was The bad guys win, take over Earthrealm, merge it with outworld and literally brutally murder every single main character (good guys and bad guys) then laugh and mock the powerless defender of Earth Raiden while he is defeated and helpless on his knees... BTW this is a prequel

Because I doubt it's as bad as that
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I think the problem is they built up several "mysteries" and the answer was basically "god did it." And it was confirmed that "they have a plan" was a lie. It seems like they were maybe building up to a ship-of-lights storyline and then they just dropped it when they couldn't make it work.
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BeyondWalls posted...

I think the problem is they built up several "mysteries" and the answer was basically "god did it." And it was confirmed that "they have a plan" was a lie. It seems like they were maybe building up to a ship-of-lights storyline and then they just dropped it when they couldn't make it work.

So I guess you could say it was

Lost

*puts on sunglasses*

In Space
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the ending was absolutely perfect, and was a perfect fit for the themes of the show.

the episodes leading up to it, though, were definitely some of the weaker of the show. I blame the writer's strike, but I dunno if that's actually fair or not.
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I don't know what Ship of Lights means. but anyway, the ending has them find Earth and it turns out the whole show took place during Earth's stone age. they land in africa and meet primitive people and confirm it's like 30 thousand years in the past or whatever. I thought it was interesting personally

Basicaly, God and Angels are real, the Cylons happened because Man put his faith in Machines and not God. How it all happened in our real-world past, and that current real-world humanity is barreling towards the same supposed mistake.
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i think the worst part, beyond the writing getting really bad, was that the show transitioned from a war-torn story of survival, into a show about religion and faith.

i think it was just too explicit in its reveal that everything was centered around god, angels, and religion. because that's definitely not how the first half of the show carried itself.
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Haven't watched the remake, but I don't recall the original ending like what's being said here about the new version.

Kind of sounds like a prequel or was the plot a whole different thing than the original ?
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008Zulu posted...

Basicaly, God and Angels are real, the Cylons happened because Man put his faith in Machines and not God. How it all happened in our real-world past, and that current real-world humanity is barreling towards the same supposed mistake.

Wow that does sound awful
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Zikten posted...

I don't know what Ship of Lights means.

008Zulu posted...

Basicaly, God and Angels are real,

Except they kind of aren't. Or at least they weren't supposed to be (probably.) The angels were basically set up to be NuBSG's Ship of Lights. Where they were like the next stage of life after cylon/man. But the writers couldn't get a handle on it and they just went with, "uh, yeah, ok, they're real angels I guess, or something."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngm3IXq0kLQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJ0_mjlzJkw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-yKkO14cvg
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I thought the ending was interesting but really unbelievable given how fucking similar things were 150k years ago. Made worse with the show Caprica.

The story goes that humanity left Kobol and found 13 colonies. One of those colonies was lost and it happened to be Earth, which had a city that looked like fucking NYC. All of this was happening in the Large Magellanic Cloud.

2k years later, Galactica stumbled upon the radioactive ruins and then found some other planet in the Milky Way, which was our Earth and settled there. The show ended 150k years in the future with the angels chilling in NYC.