BSG Finale explanation by editing for YouTube

[FormCritic]

The episode "Ship of the Gods," explains the central tenets of Mormonism.

[soxster101]

OMG! The re-imagined BSG! The over-the-top drama on this show is what killed it. The characters choked on their own dramatic blood. And the characterizations were just attitudes.

[doctorclu]

Mixing old and new... bleck..

[TheElectron504]

So what happened to Starbuck in the present BSG.

[metalhead0043]

@TheElectron504 I believe she was sent back as an angel to guide the fleet to Earth. She died, but it was not her time. After she led the fleet to the Earth, her job was done and she returned to...wherever dead people in the BSG universe go.

[TheElectron504]

@metalhead0043 what about Apollo

[TheElectron504]

Can anyone tell me what was the true ending to all of this.

[plasm2]

@TheElectron504 they became who we are now. in other words they were our ancestors and we are theyre children. so bascicaly 150000 years from then it jumped to our present meaning the cylce has been broken for a while atleast.

[msa1985]

wow i didn't realize they hinted at the ancient astronaut theme in the first BSG too.

i guess people shouldn't have been so surprised by the lame ending of the new series.

[SteveSabbai]

...the new BSG sucks...

[greenpenguino]

@SteveSabbai Agreed.

[OswaldvonWolkenstein]

nice job - this is it - but they could have done a better job explaining it at the end.

[msa1985]

@OswaldvonWolkenstein they could have done a much better job with just about everything after the second season.

the mutiny arch was good though.

[zetareticuli4]

The whole underlying plot of this show and Caprica is: mankind has discovered immortality. The Cylons are simply human minds in mechanical bodies. The gestalt of the show is, once people were able to leave their bodies they soon discovered a higher realm of being and yes, God. This is canon with the original BSG with Lorne Green "War of the Gods" (Original Battlestar Galactica)

[knoxvilleguy2]

@zetareticuli4

It's unusual how ascended beings & pseudo - angelic beings are part of science fiction: " Head - Six " & Baltar AND Kara, Original BSG & The Ship of Lights, the Ascended & Ancients in the 2 Stargate series, The First Ones in Babylon 5. Even the Organians in Original Star Trek. It's strange for a medium that relies on rationality & logic, for the most part.

[magog1138]

Very good, but I still cry every time Kara vanishes. T_T

[Coraxuss]

Good presentation, though I think you could have done better with transitions when skipping past certain clips and stuff. Also I think YouTube messed up your video by throwing the audio and video off sync.

[thuggie1]

to be honest i Battlestar Galactica dose have a religious narrative through it and i would say is a nice dimension to it.

but i think with the origional one it is more to do with the writer religion that he placed it in the show. i suppose you write from your own exsperiances.

but the Mormon ideology though out it is thick and fast with natural progression to the whole thing over the fight of good over evil. i could write about everthing but that will just get boring manly for me

[GwLDS]

that is true you can see a lot of LDS doctrine as well it is eternal progression

[toshibavoodoo]

@GwLDS I like shows that make you think, and are not made for the mass (sheple) I thought that they took a lot from LDS Doctrine and it worked very well. Still thinking about the loose ends, but this is a good story line.

[VonAwesome]

I was let down because at the beginning Ronald Moore advised that the new BSG was a "combat show about an aircraft carrier in space". Then at the end it was about the mysteries of life and stuff.

That's not why I started watching it. I don't mind mystical theories as entertainment on TV, but this show was not about that.

[EugeneR1963]

Since so few people have responded, I am gratified that the few who have agree with me.

[zetareticuli4]

@EugeneR1963

One person is a cylon spy.

[hellspawnID]

I came to the same conclusion you did. I was leaning towards the Angel theory with caporal 6 and caporal baltar but when starbuck came back her ship was brand new and it was so clean it looked White like TOS people that had contact with them.

[VonAwesome]

Whatever they meant, it ruined the new BSG for me. I was a defender of the new series untl this last crap. They explained NOTHING.

[codebreaker2001]

That's the whole point. They leave it to you to decide what the frak was happening. Did you honestly think they would wrap up everything in a nice little red bow? Of course not! Life isn't like that. We ask a lot of questions, not all of them get answers. And like life, for the ending, we're left to make up our own frakkin' minds. Just my opinion, of course.

[dakotagerman1]

The Seraphs aboard the Ship of Lights are, indeed, Space Brothers or Lighted Ones or Beings of Light.