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

[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*