\nAdmiral Adama says goodbye to Laura Roslin (Mary McDonnell) in the show\u2019s final moments of \u201cDaybreak.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Without sharing those feelings with the characters on the show, it\u2019s easy to become bogged down in wanting something else for them. We want them to land and build a great civilization or defeat the Cylons or somehow take back Caprica, or something equally grandiose. But that\u2019s not what these people would want, in this place. And it\u2019s something the audience can only fully experience when they\u2019re watching episodes back to back to back.<\/p>\n
Unless you bought the Battlestar Galactica<\/em> DVD box sets (and a lot of people did), it\u2019s not something you could have understood, viewing the show in its carefully scheduled out broadcast television format.<\/p>\nBattlestar Galactica\u2019s Ending Is About The Need To Forget<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\nFinal moments aboard the Galactica, before sending the ship into the sun.<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
By the end of Battlestar Galactica<\/em>, every character, whether hero or villain, has endured years of continual hell. The show began with every person in the Colonial fleet having everyone and everything they know and love. And then things get worse from there. It never gets better.<\/p>\nThere are occasional bright spots in the series, enough to keep the light of life alive, but by the time the Galactica<\/em> reaches its last episode, both the ship and everyone on her is done. The Galactica\u2019s back is literally broken. Many of her characters are on the verge of death. Those who aren\u2019t dying are done with all of it. Done with fighting, done with running, done with fancy flights of hope.<\/p>\n\n\nGalactica\u2019s back is broken in \u201cDaybreak.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
So they find a place they decide is Earth. They decide it\u2019s Earth because it\u2019s habitable, it is there, and they are tired.<\/p>\n
Earth is empty. It seems nice, but that doesn\u2019t matter. Because they\u2019re done, they\u2019re all done. With everything. With each other. Too much has happened, too much has been lost. There\u2019s no way to recover.<\/p>\n\n\n\nSo the Colonials and the Cylons land and wander off into the wilderness, some to die, others to try and live out a life. Cylons and humans together, to live and breed and die and forget.\u00a0Whatever happens, hope, ambition, it\u2019s all been traumatized out of them. Forgetting is what our characters need more than anything else.<\/p>\n
Watching it now on streaming, where the time between episodes is compressed, that ending makes sense because you too feel their fatigue, their trauma, and their acceptance.<\/p>\n\n\n\nAfter all their struggle and suffering, the people of the Colonial fleet have nothing left to give. There are questions they haven\u2019t answered, but those questions no longer feel like they matter to them. They reach Earth in one final, exhausted gasp, then lie down to rest.<\/p>\n
We Are All Part Of Battlestar Galactica\u2019s Struggle<\/strong><\/h3>\n\nIt\u2019s time for the audience to rest, too, because the most satisfying final reveal of the show is that these people are us. All those endless questions about who or what the Cylons are have a simple answer: It\u2019s us.<\/p>\n
We, the viewers. We are all Cylons, and we are all humans, too. We have been all along.<\/p>\n
The final scene of the show is one of warning and hope, one that now seems almost prescient in light of recent developments in artificial intelligence. Battlestar Galactica<\/em> flashes forward to modern Earth and asks if things will be different this time. Will we repeat the AI mistakes of our Colonial\/Cylon ancestors, or will we do something different this time?<\/p>\n\n\nSeries creator Ronald D. Moore cameos in the final shot of Battlestar Galactica<\/em>, as it takes place on modern-day Earth.<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nAll of this has happened before, and all of this will happen again. But it doesn\u2019t have to. It\u2019s not just the right ending, it\u2019s the only ending Battlestar Galactica<\/em> could have ever had. So say we all.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Ronald D. Moore\u2019s Battlestar Galactica reboot delivered its finale episode in 2009, it was met with mild disappointment. Fans walked away feeling as if they needed something more, a more clearly happy or sad wrap-up with more questions answered. Instead, they got an ending in which the show\u2019s surviving characters shrugged their shoulders and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1987706,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[358298,358299,358300],"class_list":["post-1987705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-admiral-adama","tag-battlestar","tag-ronald-d-moore"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Its-Time-To-Re-Evaluate-Battlestar-Galacticas-Ending-Because-It-Was.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1987705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1987705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1987705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1987706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1987705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1987705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1987705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}