Any Battlestar fans on here going through withdraw right now?

[AllentownJake]

That show carried me through my break-up with my ex and the death of my father. It gave me something to look forward to when I looked forward to nothing. My best friend was afraid to introduce me to it because she said it was so depressing but it somehow lifted my spirits.

I guess I still have Lost and to a lesser extent Heroes (that show went downhill after season one fast but I still watch it).

[Yavin4]

1. Right Here.

I feel your pain. When Adama took Laura up in that raptor while she was dying, I almost lost it. After that, I really didn't care how they ended it. That scene was so beautiful, touching, and loving, I was almost overcome.

We still have Lost, and yes, Heroes has gotten awful. However, they got their old writer back from season 1, so maybe the show can rebound.

[JTG of the PRB]

3. That's exactly when I DID lose it.

When she finally died, I started sobbing. I cried for almost ten minutes and finally stopped... Only to start again when he was sitting on that hill, describing the cabin he was going to build, and the camera panned around to reveal the pile of rocks that was Laura's grave...

Gods, it's still getting me chocked up.

[targetpractice]

4. That should have been the ending right there.

Whenever I rewatch this (which I will a bunch of times)... I will stop after this scene.

I also got choked up with the homage to the original Battlestar Galactica theme music... I'm a sentimental nerd. ;-)

[JTG of the PRB]

6. I thought those last 10 minutes were very interesting, but...

...sending the series out on that scene with Adama alone on the hillside with Roslin's grave would have been a better ending. It was so touching, so sad, so simple, and so beautiful. I've never cried as hard as I did at anything in movies or TV as I did last night when Laura passed away aboard the Raptor...

[targetpractice]

2. I am...

I'm looking forward to the final Ron Moore podcast. I didn't like the last 10 minutes at all, maybe he'll explain himself.

BSG was the best show ever on television (in addition to Arrested Development).

Did you catch the first episode of "Kings"... that looks really promising.

[AllentownJake]

5. For the most part I liked it.

There was some complex things going on. Chief killed Torry who was his love before Cavil wiped his memories for killing his wife. Athena killed Boomer even though without Boomer she'd never have had Helo to begin with.

Cavil killed himself and he was doing everything he could to find a way towards immortality after he lost ressurection tech.

Baltar and six became simple farmers, when Baltar had fought his entire life against having his fathers life.

Lots of complex shit going on.

[Dogmudgeon]

7. I'm still in shock

I still haven't recovered from the mutiny and execution of Gaeta and Zarek.

The end was so sad. Everyone, it seemed, was suddenly alone, with the exception of Baltar and Six, and the Agathon family. However, BSG has been painful every week I've watched it, from the pilot movie onward. I am sure there will be more, because I missed about half a year (up through Baltar's trial, including Kara's death) and still haven't seen the Razor movie. AND there's going to be another movie, this one from the point of view of the Cylons.

I, too, have been through a rough couple of years, including illness and a death in my family. I can't say that BSG carried me through the period, but I know the uplift feeling very well. The ancient Greeks wrote plays that explicitly evoked that response. BSG was a renewal of classical Tragedy, with all the catharsis and redemption that Sophocles taught us about 2500 years ago. Modern tragedy is about the dissolute sons of wealth falling into despair; classical tragedy is about virtuous heroes encountering their own fateful hammartia, the sin of not being gods.

So Bill Adama, Admiral, was a boozer, a dysfunctional father, a sloppy sentimentalist, and an arrogant prick. He also managed to save the last 39,000 human beings and a select number of Cylons. He fought a winning battle against Death, but Death would take the one thing he loved above all else in the universe. He was powerless to save Laura.

Gaius, Lee, and Kara all had to make peace with their parents; Laura had to bury her father and sisters, and turn her back on her youth and a life of ease. Bill and Lee lost Carolanne and Zack. The remnant of the human race was not a happy lot, even before the massacre. Then, the Cylons gave up resurrection (and eternal life) to develop what we humans call Humanity.

All the stuff of Sophocles, Aeschylus, and Euripides.

Will we see Mourning Becomes Starbuck -- ? Maybe so. All this has happened before; and it will all happen again.

As painful as the series has been, it has been profoundly inspiring to many of us. I don't think most of the critics, even those who liked the series, realize just how much of a Big Thing it has been. In its twilight, the TV teleplay has finally found its place in the fine arts. I can imagine that on Mount Olympus, Serlingon the Wise is smiling, affectionately bragging to the rest of the Pantheon that his children have finally learned about heroism -- and how to produce a good TV series.

Caprica has some mighty big shoes to fill.

--d!

[AllentownJake]

8. It got me through because it was about survival to me

No matter how awful things were they were still fighting to survive. At the end of the show, that's what it is about to me surviving. No matter what was thrown at those characters they still fought to live.

Duella's suicide was the most shocking and sad moment for me. Seconded by Cavil's. I know he was supposed to be a bad guy but in the end he gave up.