Sorry, I vomited a little in my mouth there when I heard Torreeani trying to use the word "frak" in a nonchalant manner.

At first, I thought maybe I was feeling a sense of 'cute', like a little kid trying on her Dad's sport coat and shoes in front of a mirror.

But no. It was just nausea. Like the image of a young actress / show walking on the grave of a departed legend (BSG).

Sigh.

I thought it was supposed to be about the Greystones and the Adamas. Where did the Adams come from?

The Adamas took the name of Adams to escape their past, they come back full circle and reclaim it accordingly

After the Battlestar finale, no thanks. Way to completely wreck a good show with a lame ending. Starbuck's a ghost, Baltar and Six are angels, and 38,000 people who could travel faster than light all agree to become cavemen. Riiiight. The dumbasses wrote themselves into a corner with all that prophecy BS and didn't know how to get out, so they screwed the fans.

Thank you Edward Longshanks that will be all!....Just kidding. I totally agree with you and these things are just some of the reasons why I believed the whole BSG revival to be a doomed project from the ill concieved start. Now were getting a prequel that has all the appeal of a spoiled potato, and apparently none of the personality of said potato either. But hey, I could be wrong. I do plan on giving the movie a shot.

Hey Longshanks:

It seems you didn't quite understand the finale of BSG. First, the whole Starbuck thing: It wasn't just RDM that had Starbuck being more than human, look at the original show and how Starbuck "ascended" at the end of that series.

Second, Baltar and Six themselves were not "angels." They were FLESH and BLOOD. The "angels" you were referring to only took the FORM of Baltar and Six. Watch it again, but this time take yer head outta yer arse!

Now, as to the whole "going caveman" thing. PErsonally, it is not a choice I would probably have made, but I can understand how the survivors ended up going this route.

Think about this: you've been stuck inside a big tin can in space for the last 4 years or so, breathing recycled air, drinking recycled URINE, eating food processed from algae, no wind in your face, no sunlight, no sound of nature. You miss your home world (whichever of the 12 colonies it was) and dearly want to feel at home somewhere, instead of wandering lost through the void. Your life has been nothing but techno junk and misery and claustrophobia and hell for 4 years, and now you have a beautifull blue and green world to settle on. A chance to get away from all the evils that technology has wrought upon your culture and existance.

Want a change? Of course you do!

Lee Adama's idea made sense in many ways.

thanks someone else, you said perfectly what many of us think about bsg's ending. Instead of it being some cope-out I saw it's ending as incredibly complex, beautifully realised and it really took looking at the series as a whole to truly appreciate the messages found layered within it... many wanted a shoot-em-up-wrap-everything-up in-a-nice-satisfying-bow and instead Ron forces us to think and feel and really reflect, something he did at every corner... I could have not asked for a more perfect ending... (as to a "happy ending"- as with many, the thought that only hera lived on, that most if not all "humans" actually died out provides that quiet darkness that this series always spoke of...)

Longshanks & Someone Else both have very valid poiints. On one hand, just thru the lens of lit crit BSG is full of metaphor re: how we can't really just view exisitence in B&W, we must adopt more taoist perspective. Good & evil essentially human constructs reflectinig what feels pleasurable and works for our survival vs. unavoidable decay, death and very negative feelings engendered by inequality leading to very negative behaviors. I think the finale reflects wishful ideas in the here & now re: significant consensus that it would be very positive to return to a more "pristine -natural" state in our world.
On the other hand, just in terms of writing compelling & complicated fiction, the old "it was all just a dream" sort of conclusion is a cheap way out and does indicate the creators "wrote themselves into a corner..." I think they might have worked out a better endinig if given the time but failed to take into account the constraints of television series production and shelf life.