BSG: Battlestar Galactica, Daybreak Part 2 (2 of 2)
Caution: spoilers for “Daybreak, Part 2″ (4.20)
Continued from Sunday’s Part 1.
Before I move on to the (new) earth comments, I’m going to lump all the flashback ones here.
- Of course Caprica fell in love with Baltar. She set out to investigate Humanity and isn’t Baltar a really good representative of us as a whole? Full of talent, intelligence, and potential but crippled by such vanities and destructive weaknesses.
- Roslin is someone who will always decide that life needs to go on.
- Kara is a spirit who may be loved but not had.
- The Tighs are going to be just as fun and just as destructive on (new) earth as they were everywhere else.
Now, on to the (new) earth things that I liked:
- Early in the series, Adama made Earth up. At the end, he got to define the reality of it.
- Roslin peacefully ending her journey.
- Starbuck’s departure.
- The imagery and the amazing music as the fleet flew into the sun.
I couldn’t help but sigh at how much Dee would have loved this place.
What I didn’t like:
- The explicitness of god. I don’t mind god as an actor, but the entire series has been fairly grounded in machinery and reality. We never really knew what the Head characters, dreams, or visions were.
But as I’ve said before, I can’t fault the series for making this ending. I accept their decision. It simply was not my preference. Especially since, as I’ve also said before, the prophetic destiny of everything ran into a stray asteroid.
- The anvilicious warning. As if the fact that somewhere out there is a half-transmitted resurrection program and a Base Ship full of free-thinking Centurions is not enough, you have to show me current news footage of our robots to get the happened-before-happen-again message across?
This show usually allows me to feel smarter than the average bear when I watch it. There’s a certain amount of pride and cachet attached to being able to recommend it. That last sequence was like cold water in my face. I know it wasn’t your intention, Show.
But you talked to me like I was stupid, and I didn’t appreciate it.
Final Finale Thought
While I’m really happy that the remanents of the fleet got to live out their lives on solid ground and beneath a free sky, the revelation that Hera is Mitochondrial Eve also says that they and their descendents mostly died out. That is a sad ending to keep in mind for my future rewatchings of the series.
Hopefully, they’ll have thought that it was all worth it. Because for me, the journey certainly was.
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