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rachg82Okaaaaay, so remember how I said I was going to put off watching the BSG finale until after I'd already recapped the last few eps preceding it? Yeah, I kinda gave up on that today. I just could not resist any longer, not when I had the whole day off work and it was sitting there beckoning to me.
And I'm not going to do a recap of it tonight--because I'm still going to talk about those other episodes first, and also because I need at least one more rewatch before I can truly say what I think about it here--but I will say this: I pretty much bawled. Like, tears streaming down my face and shoulders shaking type bawling. Like, "I'm glad no one's here to watch me embarass myself as I sob over a freaking tv show" bawling. I mean, seriously, the final scenes between Roslin & Adama? Oh my God. Okay, you know that part of Alice in Wonderland where she starts crying and her tears create a flood that carry her through the keyhole and out to sea? That was basically me.
As far as my initial reactions to the ep go, I can also say this: some of it I totally hated, and some of it I absolutely loved. Which is what I expected going into it based on other people's reactions, so it came as no surprise (which probably helped, I'm sure). I've already decided I'm going to pretend the very last scene didn't happen, because it was just waaaaaay too heavy-handed and cheesy and this show never usually falls victim to that. So I'm fanwanking it out of existence, and choosing to ignore a couple other annoying bits of dialogue as well. Overall though, there were far more things I liked than things I didn't, which is all I ask of a series finale at the end of the day. Aside from those few "WTF Ron Moore? WHY THE SUCK?" moments, the majority of the finale was actually really enjoyable and very, very satisfying on an emotional level in my opinion. And, again, I'll have a lot more to say about it later (along with some thoughts on the show overall now that it's over, of course), but for now I just wanted to at least mark the moment & give a few brief thoughts after watching it.
(I will add one last thing though before I go: the Roslin/Adama stuff? Could not have been better. It was so sad but so completely & utterly perfect and beautiful. I really cannot give the show and the actors a big enough thumbs up for their send-off to that pairing, seriously. A++++.)
And in honor of the above, I hereby give you this finale-centric Vid of the Day, created by EVG4815. It does a lovely job of touching on the emotionally satisfying aspect of the finale that I mentioned above. It's also making me start to get all teary again. *sniff*
And I'm not going to do a recap of it tonight--because I'm still going to talk about those other episodes first, and also because I need at least one more rewatch before I can truly say what I think about it here--but I will say this: I pretty much bawled. Like, tears streaming down my face and shoulders shaking type bawling. Like, "I'm glad no one's here to watch me embarass myself as I sob over a freaking tv show" bawling. I mean, seriously, the final scenes between Roslin & Adama? Oh my God. Okay, you know that part of Alice in Wonderland where she starts crying and her tears create a flood that carry her through the keyhole and out to sea? That was basically me.
As far as my initial reactions to the ep go, I can also say this: some of it I totally hated, and some of it I absolutely loved. Which is what I expected going into it based on other people's reactions, so it came as no surprise (which probably helped, I'm sure). I've already decided I'm going to pretend the very last scene didn't happen, because it was just waaaaaay too heavy-handed and cheesy and this show never usually falls victim to that. So I'm fanwanking it out of existence, and choosing to ignore a couple other annoying bits of dialogue as well. Overall though, there were far more things I liked than things I didn't, which is all I ask of a series finale at the end of the day. Aside from those few "WTF Ron Moore? WHY THE SUCK?" moments, the majority of the finale was actually really enjoyable and very, very satisfying on an emotional level in my opinion. And, again, I'll have a lot more to say about it later (along with some thoughts on the show overall now that it's over, of course), but for now I just wanted to at least mark the moment & give a few brief thoughts after watching it.
(I will add one last thing though before I go: the Roslin/Adama stuff? Could not have been better. It was so sad but so completely & utterly perfect and beautiful. I really cannot give the show and the actors a big enough thumbs up for their send-off to that pairing, seriously. A++++.)
And in honor of the above, I hereby give you this finale-centric Vid of the Day, created by EVG4815. It does a lovely job of touching on the emotionally satisfying aspect of the finale that I mentioned above. It's also making me start to get all teary again. *sniff*
