My epic analysis of the Battlestar Galactica finale…
Recently, I joined the editorial team of the Galactica Sitrep, the biggest and best of the billions of Battlestar Galactica blogs. My inaugural post is a lengthy analysis of the series finale, entitled
“Not In Our Stars: The Betrayals of the Battlestar Galactica”…
“…And that’s when I started to feel sick. This lush green blue paradise, this answered prayer, this FUCKING! HAPPY! ENDING! Such bright sunshine was utterly out of character for Battlestar Galactica. The show’s darkness did not derive from the lightless vacuum of space in which it was set, but rather in the hearts of the characters. Old Man Adama’s words, uttered in the miniseries, became Battlestar Galactica’s first article of faith: ?we are the flawed creation.? We get what we deserve. We must answer for our mistakes.”
April 26th, 2009 at 7:57 am
Excellent analysis, except this: “FUCKING! HAPPY! ENDING!”. For me there is no happy ending. It’s a false happy ending, exactly like The Lord of The rings finale: the hobbits comes back home, but there‘s no real “return home”. In BSG the protagonists are all going to die or to separate from each other; The mankind itself, like the cylon species, is going to die, to make space for the human/cylon generation. Sure, the quest “Search of the Earth” is successfully concluded, even if tragically, but a conclusion with no happiness for the protagonists (maybe only Athena, Helo and Hera are the really exception). And maybe there is a kind of “peace” in the hearts of the survivors, peace for the end of their tragic journey, but for sure not happiness. Kara disappears, Roslin die, Sam die (exactly like Boomer, Skulls, Racetrack, Tory Foster and many co-protagonists during the show: the “real” Starbuck, Zarek, Gaeta, Cain, Cat, Cally, Dualla, Billy, Crashdown, Jammer), Adama, Apollo, Chief are going to end their lives in loneliness, the mankind and the cylons reject all the technologies etc. etc.. Where is happy ending in this? In any tragedy (and BSG is a tragedy not a melodrama) there is a catharsis, but In the catharsis there is no “happy ending”. Is it possible to conclude BSG with: “happily ever after”? For me the answer is no.