Ok. This is a picspam of the series finale that happens to be two hours long. So this is a BIGspam. VERY IMAGE-HEAVY. And that itself is an understatement. I promised myself I would never make a spam this huge, but this is Battlestar Galactica, and I think, with that in mind, I can make an exception.
Obvious spoilers behind the cut. Click only if you've 1) seen the episode or 2) never seen BSG and don't plan to anytime soon -- in which case, do yourselves a favour, spend your life wisely and PLEASE watch the frakkin' show already.
I always wondered how the writers would open Galactica's series finale. And although the old men ridin' high on a strip club was the last thing I had in mind, I still enjoyed this scene. Particularly Tigh's "yaaaaaaaaahhhh." I mean it's not like they're never like this or anything. Oh, boys.
In one way or another, I am clearly deranged. PRETTY PEOPLE. There is a BIT of significance to this scene, however. It further proves the fact that there is a conscience within Gaius Baltar. It's been hiding for four seasons and it wants out! He is seriously pondering a selfless act, I think I was silently freaking out. My eyes were twitching!
Laura: Thank you, Doctor.
Doc: I'm just doing my job.
Laura: No. You've done much more than that. You've taken a patient who should have died years ago, and you've given her a chance, despite cancer and the Cylons and her own obstinate nature. You've given me the little time I have left. For that, you have my - my heartfelt gratitude. My thanks.
Doc: I.. don't know what to say.
Laura: Oh no, don't. Don't spoil your image. Just light a cigarette and go and grumble.
Even after finding out she's got two days left to live, Laura still has a sense of humour. And she still uses her very last energy to help save her people. WHY ARE YOU SO FANTASTIC?
Aw, look at you, you brave, brave bastard. I'm so proud of you!
This guy has done a complete 180, after 4.5 seasons and a mini-series. I really think he's changed, partly after finally recognizing that he is HUMAN. But I also think it's partly because he wants to prove to Six that he has changed since the last time they saw each other. Or maybe that's the fangirl in me talking? Eitherway, Mr. Nice Gaius has come a long way. From batshit crazy to batshit crazy with feelings.
Gaius Baltar? Abandoning selfishness? Sacrificing his life for the sake of humanity? Wearing a MILITARY UNIFORM? It can only mean one thing: Puberty.
Adama: This is the Admiral. Just so there'll be no misunderstandings later. Galactica's seen a lot of history, gone through a lot of battles. This WILL be her last. She will not fail us, if we do not fail her. If we succeed in our mission, Galactica will bring us home. If we don't.. it doesn't matter anyway. Start the clock.
This, by the bye, was the part where the tears and crying ensued. And I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHY.
SO FRAKKING AMAZING.
Erm.. this part might get a little out of hand, btw..
Caprica: I'm proud of you.
Gaius: Why?
Caprica: For doing this. For being here when you could've just walked away. I don't think I ever said it before but.. I always wanted to be proud of you.
downtorio: *crazy arm flailing*
Caprica: Guess I always felt that was the only thing missing.
Six: All the pieces are falling into place.
Baltar: You will hold the future of Cylons and humans in your hands.
Caprica and Gaius: I will? (to each other) You see them?
You guys!! They kissed!! In the middle of a battle! With angels looking after them! I think rainbows started coming out of MY EYES.
~~SIX WITH A GUN!!!!
Moving on..
Holy frak, that entire Opera House sequence was mind-blowing, was it not? (Say yes.) I bet the reason Six was really protective of Hera in this scene (or the reason she battled with the humans in the first place) was all because of that Liam incident. There seemed to have been a little switch in her character after her miscarriage. See? There was a purpose for that nuisance of a plot line after all.
Gaius:God's not on anyone's side. God's a force of nature, beyond good and evil. Good and evil, we created those. You wanna break the cycle? Break the cycle of birth, death, rebirth, destruction, escape, death? Well, that's in our hands. And our hands only. It requires a leap of faith. It requires that we live in hope, no fear.
Cavil: If I give you this girl, that means the destruction of my people. How does our extinction fit into this picture that you want us to believe in?
Tigh: We'll give you resurrection.
Ellen: Saul.
Tigh: You give us Hera, we'll give you resurrection. But the war ends here. You leave humanity in peace, and give up the pursuit now and for all time.
Cavil: ..agreed.
Adama: Starbuck! Jump the ship!
Kara: I don't have the rendezvous coordinates!
Adama: Doesn't matter! Just jump us out of here now. Jump!
Kara: There must be some kind of way outta here.
Kara: If that's me lying there, then what am I?
Leoben: I look at you now, I don't see Kara Thrace. I see an angel, blazing with the light of God. An angel.
Kara: Jump!
That was awesome. This point in the episode was when I began crazy!messaging
x_mitchie_x about how awesome this show is and how I knew Kara would lead them to Earth, and where she had absolutely no idea what I was talking about because she doesn't know who Kara Thrace is -- because she doesn't watch BSG, and should therefore be shot. But Starbuck! She did it! Head explosion commences!Kara: I'm not scared.
Lee: You said.. that you think about dying every time you get into a cockpit.
Kara: Uh-huh..
Lee: Well, hello.
Kara: Yeah, but it doesn't scare me, Lee. That's what you don't get.
Lee: What, so is, uh, Kara Thrace a fearless warrior?
Kara: No, I, uh, I know fear. And I get scared. Just.. it's not of dying.
Lee: So what does scare you?
Kara: .. being forgotten.
Tigh: She's broke her back. She'll never jump again.
Adama: Wherever we are is where we're gonna stay.
Laura: Where have you taken us, Kara?
Gaius: You mean we can breed with them?
Adama: You got a one-track mind, Doc.
Gaius: What? Listen, I'm talking about the survival of the human race, actually. Not some get-together with the natives.
Adama: You also have no sense of humor..
Tigh: Hehehe...
Adama: Hehehe..
downtorio: *dies laughing*
Gaius: .. right.
LOL!! Oh, boys.
Adama: Once the civilians have been offloaded, the fleet will leave the orbit and rendezvous with Galactica. The course of the fleet will be plotted into the nav computer ahead of time, but the actual piloting will be done by Mr. Anders. He'll guide the entire fleet.. directly into the sun.
Aw, the Centurions live happily ever after. Too bad Sam won't =((((
Btw, it took me three days just to colorize/edit-ize this scene, because every time I started, I turned into a puddle of tears. It was a mess. Just saying.
Kara: I love you. Goodbye, Sam.
Sam: I'll see you on the other side.
The music, and Kara crying, and her giving Sam her dogtag, and the 'I love you,' and the KISS, and just.. tears!! I don't even want to elaborate or talk about this scene. TRY NOT TO CRY.
Sam: Perfection. That's what it's about. It's those moments where you can feel the perfection of creation. The beauty of physics, the wonder of mathematics, the relation of action and reaction. And that is the kind of perfection that I wanna be connected to.
Watching Papadama take one last look at his ship was hard. And then just watching it take off into the sun. Geez. This would've been so much easier if I wasn't so attached to the show. Look at the size of this picspam, for frak's sake.
Bye-bye, Galactica. And bye-bye, Sam :( :( :(
Chief! Aw, look at that smile. I want a teddy-Chief. I feel so bad for the guy. Everyone just keeps disappointing him, and I hate it when characters I like are left all on their lonesome. I'll just pretend, in my own little Denialand, that he visited these guys every now and again.
Sidenote: Ellen's hair! Check out the 'do fluttering about in all sorts of directions. All the Cylons (except the 8's, they're okay) have fancy hair.
Happy Tighs!
Lee: Dad?
Adama: I don't have much time, son.
Lee: I understand.
Adama: What do you hear, Starbuck?
Kara: Nothing but the rain.
Despite the insane amount of tears (on my part), I love this. I love that Papadama decided he wanted to spend whatever time he has left with Laura. Or whatever time she has left. Whichever. And Lee totally gets it. Because that's what family is. And because if there's anyone that deserves a break after all hell that broke loose since the beginning of the series, it's these two. I'm just really crestfallen with the fact that there will be no more Lee/Papa scenes from this point on. Or Kara/Laura scenes. Or the happy-family-together scenes.
Stupid show and their stupid tearjerkers. To make myself feel better, I pretend Laura and Bill are saying their goodbye's not because they are reaching the end of their lives but because they are boarding the "Just Married" space-limo and are flying off to their honeymoon. Don't mock me, I know you were thinking it too.
Lee: Goodbye, Kara. You won't be forgotten.
Obviously Kara/Lee is not a part of God's plan. But it makes me ridiculously sad to think that Lee's probably got no one left. You know what he needs? A pet, that's what. Maybe a moose, or something.
Laura: I'd like you to give a message to Mayor Adar. Tell him that I will be joining his campaign. Thank you. All the way to the end. No matter what. All the way to the end.
Prettiest scene in the history of ever! But when he put the ring around her finger, I lost it. Hysterical. I don't even want to talk about it.
Caprica: That's it? That's all God wants of us?
Head!Six/ANGEL!SIX: God's plan is never complete.
Gaius: Great..
Head!Baltar/ANGEL!BALTAR: But, I think it's safe to say that from now on, your lives will be less.. eventful.
I was almost going to do this bit frame-by-frame. Up until I realized the absurdity of it all, of course, so I just did it every-other-frame-by-frame. Feel free to admire the pretty that is James Callis and Tricia Long Legs.
Gaius: The things men do for love..
Caprica: Love? Gaius.
Gaius: ... ... yeah ... well ... you know what I mean.
Keep telling yourself that, Nice Gaius. The world now knows you are not a total bastard. There's a heart in there.. somewhere.. deep, deep, deep down under.
THEY ARE SO.. AGASKDLFJ! Look at how worried she looks when he says he could get his head cut off (which is a very funny picture, btw). And look at how happy she looks when he says the L-word! And the last pic, with them being all smile-y and such! I died!
And they lived happily ever after! Happy Six/Gaius = happy me. It's all in the mathematics.
PS: Height difference!
Anyway. THIS is the team dream, people! I am so glad these two got a happy ending. And am relieved that Gaius did not die, because I seriously thought he would. I had this weird prediction that Gaius, after the Daybreak 1, would end up joining the war and doing something completely selfless and sacrifice himself to save humanity or something -- which, I know, is out there, even after this episode. And I would have loved him more than I do, if that had been the case. But I much prefer my favourite bastard alive, thank you.
Adama: I laid out the cabin today. It's gonna have an easterly view. You should see the light that we get here, when the sun comes from behind those mountains. It's almost heavenly - reminds me of you.
This was the one scene that really did me in. Laura dying, Kara saying goodbye to Sam, Adama/Laura departing from Starbuck/Apollo, did not break me as much as this bit did. I think it was because this was when I REALLY realized that this show was over, and from the next Friday onward, I'm going to have to survive a dull and boring weekend without my weekly fix of Galactica. It may have also been because just watching Papadama talking to Laura's grave is just too much for my poor soul to handle. And just the way he says it, I get chills every time. They did it! They found Earth!
I SEE YOU, RDM.
See Six's hand resting on RDM's shoulder? Tricia does the smallest things that eventually adds an extra touch to a scene. Is that a model thing, or is that just a fabulous person thing? A bit of both, maybe.
Six: Commercialism, decadence, technology ran a muck; remind you of anything?
Baltar: Take your pick. Kobol, Earth - the real Earth, before this one..
Six: All of this has happened before.
Baltar: But the question remains: does all of this have to happen again?
Six: This time, I bet no.
Baltar: You know, I've never known you to play the optimist. Why the change of heart?
Six: Mathematics, law of averages. Let a complex system repeat itself long enough, eventually something surprising might occur. That, too, is in God's plan.
Baltar: You know he doesn't like that name
Six: *gives him the look*
Baltar: Silly me. Silly, silly me.
I know a lot of people don't, and maybe I'm the only one, but I lllloooovveee this scene, although I would have rather the ep ended with Bill looking at the mountains, but lalala. And it's not just because I love me some Six/Baltar, though that is a huge part of it. The "150,000 years later" bit was pretty cliche. But idk, just look at them. They're supposed to be angels, what with the walking among us and watching after us, yet they're all smirks and narrow-eyed glances and Baltar with his sunglasses (SUNGLASSES!!), they look like such demons. I love it.
And THAT, bitches, is how you end a series. God. I don't think I've ever been this emotionally unstable since the finale of Buffy. (Seriously, though,
vibrantsarcasm and I got into this speculation about how the world may well explode if RDM collides forces with Joss Whedon, creating a show together using some of their old casts. If we decide to campaign this, you will all support, yes?)Frankly, I thought this was an excellent way to end the series. The biggest iff I think most people had with this ep was the fact that it slightly implies that the main theme of the series was robots/technology conquering the humans. Idk, I saw it more as an "all of this has happened before, all of this will happen again" type thing. The destruction of the human race due to their technology, and that being reflected on small robots being created in the new Earth, finding its way towards the same path as Caprica's, Kobol's, Earth the first's, etc.
Although I did favour the first half over the second, I still enjoyed the fact that RDM gave his audience an understanding as to what happens to our favourite
PHEW. So this is easily the longest journal entry I've ever done in my life. And I'm pretty sure this is the largest picspam ever created by a human being. I need a therapist.
I'll miss you, show!! Thanks for the tears, the laughs, the struggles, and the triumphs, for setting the standard for future (and current) television shows, and especially for finishing off with a wonderful ending. Despite all ups and downs and crazy zig-zaggy in-betweens, it was a spectacular journey. SIGH. How I may never love again..
So say we all.
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