Comments on: An Alternate Ending to Battlestar Galactica

By: Dave D.

Dave D. — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 05:15:39 +0000

I loved the show but I hated the ron moore “shower epiphany” created ending. I really wish id shut off the tv right as the galactica jumped – that way i could write my own ending.

The ending was so contrary to what I wanted it killed all further interest for me in the show. I wont be buying any dvds. Ive tried to get the ending but cant Its too much luddite based BS to me.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:00:11 +0000

I think you could indeed have continued the episode past Cavil’s suicide, but it needed much more careful handling.

By: abovenyquist

abovenyquist — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 06:26:14 +0000

I remember Joyce saying “if it turns out there really are Gods, I’m going to be pretty annoyed.” BSG had some of the most amazing moments I’ve ever seen on television, but as a whole, it didn’t really hang together – too many threads spiraling out that could only be brought back together with a fairly literal deus ex machina. (BSG ended much better than the X-Files did, though – the X-Files should have ended a couple of seasons sooner.) I think the writers kept shifting around their perception of what the Cylons were, and that got the writers into trouble.

Just Huckleberry Finn should have ended before Tom Sawyer shows up, the BSG finale really ends with Cavil’s suicide.

By: jayemeff

jayemeff — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 17:56:30 +0000

Putting aside the fact that this is fiction… I just think that if these are our ancestors, looking back over human history I think it would have been better if the Cylons had finished the job. Humans learned squat. When Boomer asked Adama if humans deserved to survive, she had a point.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:24:32 +0000

I’m wondering if they decided on “they’re in the *past*” because they decided that them being our future was too obvious.

By: jayemeff

jayemeff — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 16:15:02 +0000

One simple change would have made the ending more satisfying for me. Set the finale 150,000 years in the futrue rather than the past; make them our descendents not our ancesters. At some point in our future, technology goes rampant and we nearly destroy ourselves. Many survivors set out and settle on Kobol and eventually to the 12 colonies. As for the “other” earth, the original humanoid cylons decide to go back to Earth but along the way end up on this one instead and just keep the name. The humans they discover living here are descendents of those survivors who were left behind.
This scenario better explains why their culture and technology is similar to ours, why they have the names of ancient gods as nicknames and signs of the zodiac as the colonies. It doesn’t help Kara’s story anymore than the original. And totally makes Hera’s significance a mystery but that is minor compared to the mystery of how these people were supposed to evolve into us. And if they did, what was the point of surviving?
The “all this has happened before ….” line still works. Ron Moore still gets to tout his evils of technology lecture and offer a warning. And quite frankly it gives more of a glimmer of hope that things can change and the cycle can be broken.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:25:07 +0000

I think that however you or I may tweek BSG, this way or that, it shows that this series touched not only our hearts but our minds. I don’t see us having these conversations most TV shows these days. They may have bent the edges of the series to tie it up, but really after five years getting knocked around a semi simplified “shiny” ending can be nice. I had thoughts on reincarnation and Starbuck being an Arch Angel but they don’t really matter,really. It was a good series which we will all watch again and again. All this has happened before and all of this will happen again.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 17:25:53 +0000

Having Roslyn dead and Adama mourning her was a great ending to their arc, and fit in with where they’d been heading for several seasons. Sure, a perfectly happy ending would have been nice, but it wouldn’t have been in keeping with the show’s approach.

By: BSGFan

BSGFan — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 14:47:48 +0000

Also they introduced this concept that when people die, ‘they cross the river’….why bring that up 8 episodes earlier and not ellaberate on what it means in the BSG universe….why couldn’t they have shown us they were still somehow together in this ‘other-space-place-heaven’ ….I want to watch Caprica, but it is going to be hard to see a 9 year Bill knowing the last image that was shown of his life was him sobbing by Laura grave watching the sun rise…all alone at age 67….not kewl dudes. not kewl.

By: BSGFan

BSGFan — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 14:42:48 +0000

IMO the anti-technology is not the thing that bothers me…it is the fact they split up….In addition it would have been a comfort to have seen them get along and treat the Aberiginies well…it would have showed that they went back to simplisity, but still had the better part of humanity, compassion and family. Just a scene with Lee helping Bill build the cabin (I just buy the last minute, “Apollo is a cynical jerk theme), having everyone come together now and again, and sharing Baltar and Caprica’s Crop, while Here played with the Aberiginie children would have done the trick, making inner six’s last wierds sinsear and not sadisitcal, becuase it is not to late for us to get ‘that’ out of control…we can start caring about eachother and for what purpose we use our ‘tools’ NOW! -The moral should of been ‘people don’t have to go through all of that unessesary pain, it NEVER to late….vs this ‘the BSG/Cylons ‘failed’ and were what Starbuck didn’t want to happen, happened as our people didn’t know of them at all. That was my gripe.