In the final episode of Battlestar Galactica the surviving crew members find Earth. They go their seperate ways to plant stuff and multiply and what have you. Appolo and Starbuck stand and watch Commander Adama fly his ship away, then Appolo turns back to Starbuck, and she's gone! Earlier on in the season Starbuck "died" in the episode maelstrom, but reappeared at a later time, unable to explain what happened.
Was she an angel? A ghost? An hallucination? Well, I have my theory but whatever you have been thinking..keep on thinking it! Because although Moore does elaborate on his idea of what was supposed to have became of ol Kara Thrace, he still says that it should be a bit ambiguous..
She is what you want to think of her. It was left deliberately nebulous and vague. And I think she was a representative of an entity that didn't like to be called God, but everybody else talked about it in godlike terms. If you want to call her an angel, you could say that. She went through a resurrection story that was very Christlike. And you know, what are the implications of that? I felt, as I went into the finale, that the more I defined exactly what she was, the less interesting she became. And so I just made a choice to go out on a more ambiguous note, and to let people argue about it perpetually.
Well, there you are now! The final ep of BSG..and for some the entire last part of the season was seen as a bit of a disappointment(putting it mildly). For such a consistently brilliant show to go out on what seemed like a bit of a cop out ending angered a lot of fans. I actually didn't think it was all that bad. Sure I was disappointed, but I understand that , much like
Lost, they wanted to go out giving us an emotional pay off rather than explaining everything. They could have did it better definitely, but it wasn't really anything bad enough to taint the show for me in any way(Billyblack I know you disagree!). So what do you guys think? Should that final be re watched and reassessed? Or did they really throw the S with
BSG?
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