Battlestar Galactica non-spoilery reaction

[amanuensis1]

1) When BSG does indulge in cliché, it does it with style.

2) Watching the finale makes me want to run back and watch the whole series again from the beginning, and that does not always happen with a beloved series. I've turned my back on entire adored series in the past after finales that left me sulking.

3) Thanks for giving me conclusions I wanted, conclusions I liked better than those I thought I wanted, hurting me a little in good ways, and for keeping the ribbons and bows down to a tasteful, albeit sparkly, few.

What a fantastic series.


Spoilers will be indulged in the comments.

Comments

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

I lost a little interest in Baltar when he got religion, though I thought it made a great deal of sense for his character development to go that route. But then, right here at the end when it's plain he never really bought nine-tenths of what he was saying, that it was just the role others wanted from him ("You appropriated me; I was never yours"), just like all his false fronts, I fell right back in love again. Somehow his choosing to stay and be part of the mission--what's ostensibly a noble act--brought out the terrified, just-trying-to-survive Baltar again, so by the time he made that passionate plea to Cavil, he was frightened and honest and naked yet brilliant. He was his true self, and it was the right place to show his true self.