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Go Frack Yourself

It’s been nearly two weeks since the series finale of Battlestar Galactica. Oh the whole I really love this show. It’s full of great characters and situations and plot and everything. It just works. The actors are great, the stories are (mostly) great. The emotion they invoke is real, and powerful.

Having said that: Ronold D. Moore, sir, you can go frack yourself.

Series fanales, must I think, suck badly. As a fan you are too emotionally wrapped up in the show to accept that it must end. You don’t want it to end, you selfishly want to keep watching it forever. There are a few things which I can/will accept with the ending of the show, however there are also things which I will not accept.

1) Starbuck. Give me a fracking break. After all that, after all the bad ass girl stuff all we get is *poof* Clearly she isn’t the same as Head 6 and Head Baltar (which we are lead to believe are some kind of Angels). After all this time and character development all we get for poor old Kara Thrace is…fracking poof? And, “It’s up to the viewer” from Mr. Moore? What the frack? You and your team of writers are paid FAR more than “it’s up to the viewer.” I, the viewer, thought you guys had your fracking stuff together and were trying to tell a coherient story…not just sort of making it up as you went. Which brings me to my next point…

2) Caprica 6. We learn through some of the flashbacks that Caprica 6 really struggles with her inner humanity right before she wipes out most of the human race…and brutally murders a baby on the street. By helping Baltar deal with his father, who he obviously doesn’t want to have to deal with…ever, she opens him up to the idea that she should give him access to the defense mainframe. Queue the annilation of the human race. I would have found it much more in character if they just left us thinking that she fracked her way to the access. I mean, it’s Giaus fracking Baltar. Stroke his ego and his cock, he’ll do it.

3) Giaus fracking Baltar. This despicable, selfish, self centered worm made it all the way to the end? Frack that! He directly caused the near extinction of the human race, and he makes it to the end? To ‘new’ Earth to help repopulate the human race?!?!?! Somehow this is part of God’s great plan to move the human race from Caprica (and surrounding) to ‘new’ Earth? At the cost of billions of lives? This doesn’t make any fracking sense.

I could go on and on. In retrospect I’m very disappointed with the way it ended. The writers never recovered from the writers strike, and anything they may have had was lost.

They should have just left us looking over nuked Earth and fade to black.