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

[persephone-blue.livejournal.com]

And considering the insignificance of ancient Greece in the broader perspective of human history (in terms of numbers, length of time of their civilization, etc), why was this picked? This has irked me from the beginning. One of the most egregiously stupid aspects of the show.

I loved the Greek-but-not-Greek culture references, actually. This was an aspect from the original series, I believe.

[dbassassin.livejournal.com]

Yes, I know it was in the original series (I'm ageing myself here, I know :D), but it's not as if they were particularly faithful to the original in other things. This was an aspect I could have done without.

[ellid.livejournal.com]

Even weirder: the original series was rumored to be at least partially based on the Book of Mormon. That means that "Apollo" et al. may have been substitutes for "Nephi" and "Moroni" so the network would approve the thing in the first place.

And yes, I liked the Greek references. But why *only* Greek? Why not Cybele or Mithras? Oshun? Gautama? Vishnu? Cernunnos? Epona? Amaterasu? Attis? Isis?

[dbassassin.livejournal.com]

Yes, why not? Mithridatean religious practices were much more interesting. Bloodier, mind you, with all that ritual animal sacrifice...

But yeah, I guess they were going for "recognisably old earthian" but not too "weird". *eyeroll*