Ongoing Battlestar Galactica thread of doom.

[Volpone]

I think I've mentioned before, technically, I was in the same building as Katee Sackhoff for the series finale. The...Baghdad?...McMenamin's theater had her and they showed it. Got there 10-15 minutes before the event. There was a line around the block and it was at capacity before I even got in line, but it is an old stage theater and they turned the backstage into a separate pool hall so I went there and had a beer and watched on the TVs.

 

[Volpone]

OK. I remembered what I felt like saying: Back in the relatively early days of theater, when stagecraft became more refined, it was popular to have clouds or chariots or such things descend onto the stage because it was cool and impressive--basically the special FX of the day. So the play would get to its end, where it didn't look like there was a solution and BAM! A god would descend and fix everything, lowered from the catwalks. The term for this type of contrived ending was *Deus ex machina,* literally "The God out of the machine." I can't help but wonder if Ron Moore got a chuckle out of the resolution of the series being the god of the machine Cylons resolving the story.

 

[Colonel Kira's Left Tit]

Still one of the best.

 

[CaptainWacky]

Written by Jane Espenson of Buffy fame, fact fans! It definitely looks like Olmos and Hogan are laughing for real.