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

[the-dala.livejournal.com]

Watching the finale makes me want to run back and watch the whole series again from the beginning

This.

Man, what a ride.

[musesfool.livejournal.com]

Yes. I've seen people bitching about the cliches, but I like this set of cliches far better than Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies. These characters earned some peace (though I can't imagine subsistence farming being all that easy or peaceful), and I'm pleased they got it.

[dbassassin.livejournal.com]

1) Yes, totally.

2) Yes, and OMG Yes (HP anyone? BtVS, though that applies to the entire last season.)

3)Not overly happy with the conclusion of the battle scenes, which came across as a bit 'oh, crap, we need to wrap this up asap to keep this ep under 2hrs', but overall, pretty much agree with this assessment. I liked the circularity of it.

[orchidchaos.livejournal.com]

The cliches were handled gracefully. The last five minutes were gold. Pure gold.

[persephone-blue.livejournal.com]

Clichés or conventions? Maybe there's little difference. When ending a story after five years, conventions sometimes have to be dragged out, but all of the ones in the finale have been hinted at for a while.

[demonqueen666.livejournal.com]

Awesome finale. Frakking AWESOME.

I honestly didn't expect it to end the way it did, for any of the characters. BUT I LOVED ALL OF IT. EVEN THE PARTS THAT HURT. MY HAPPINESS MAKES ME CAPSLOCKY.

Like you, I totally want to rewatch from the beginning now.

Randomness

[dmlpacker.livejournal.com]

Err this has nothing to do with BSG...

Anyway, I just started episode 21 of Kuroshitsuji. I have to say, Maylene's past surprised me like no other O.o

[sbbo.livejournal.com]

The only part that really choked me up is when they were reading, at the end, of discovering the body of a girl with her parents. Uhhh. The use of 'girl' is making me think that Hera didn't survive childhood. I then suspect a harsh winter with food die-off. Since we know her parents would cut their arms off before allowing her hurt I have to imagine they all died around the same time. Within a year or two of arriving.

And if it can happen to them then it obviously could happen to many others. Which is tragic, to me.

Also, I have to wonder if they hadn't decided to start with a fresh slate, but instead dedicated their technology to maintaining an accurate history (ie, not the scrolls of Pithia ) they might have avoided the whole enslaving of robots mess that is apparently our greatest weakness.

But maybe I'm giving this too much thought?