Quickie BSG finale post (spoilers)

I thought there were some strong points, but ultimately some parts might have been better with no wrap up than a less satisfying wrap up.  Missed the last few minutes, but I caught the synopsis and will watch it in a bit and probably do some more in depth posting then. I do feel I correctly called the divine aspects, and I’m willing to bet more elaboration there wouldn’t have helped as I suspect there’s not more to elaborate on..

The anti-technology bit was dumb and wasn’t really sold by the series itself.  Instead the series mostly avoided the science-side of science fiction, so I wasn’t surprised by that twist but I don’t see why anyone but crazy hippy Apollo would buy that idea.  On the whole, it made me want to get to reading World War Z which I’m told does a better job of handling rebuilding from the apocalypse.

Also, man did the chief go down hill post-final five knowledge.  With the exception of his repairs to the ship pretty much every decision he’s made has been dumb and not even dumb with a consistent pattern.  A better, harder, ending would have been to take the deal.  If it were Helo, he’d have waited to finish the transmission first and then requested permission to take the shot.  As another lawful good but not lawful stupid character as said, personal isn’t the same as important.  The finace also pointed out that Tigh’s comment is really disingenuous considering that he killed Ellen.

All and all, I’m putting labeling this one as an average ending.  Some good stuff in the finale, on the character by character level I think it pulled it off well, and it did actually wrap the major threads, so points there. 

Finally, I am also wanting to read WWZ because we’re going to need some zombie bank slayers.

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[That Fiancee-Type Person]

Ironically enough, I realized that I have similar problems with the ending to BSG as I did with the ending of Wall-E, namely a urbanized civilization trying to make it on a rough/primitive planet. The BSG folks got a better planet, while the Wall-E folks got the benefit of some of their technology.