Seldom have we experienced such controversy as the freak ending of Battlestar Galactica, 10 years ago as of this article! A HUGE clue…

Do you recall the final scene of the entire series whence Caprica Six tells Baltar that it’s all God’s will and famously Baltar replies, “you know it doesn’t like that name”

I could be completely wrong but I don’t think I am. I got it immediately and have been baffled ever since that no one else seems to. I suppose entire phony baloney kiddie religions were built and crushed on this simple remark. If you were around as I was at the end, this line may have frustrated you as well as millions of others. But there is hope. 

Not to beat about the old bush, here is what the line meant. It was an INSIDE JOKE. None other than the grand poobah of the show, and the writer of this particular one, Ronald D. Moore is…god. I say god with a little g for most assuredly he is not THE God. However, as the creator of the BG universe, as far as the characters know he’s a god sure enough. And I’m talking their one true god at that.

Of course Moore built in all sorts of religiosity into the show. You can look it up. No use in adding to the mythos here. And his religious background added to the confusion Rest now, assuredly that he is the guy that Baltar refers to as not liking that name. It’s a joke.

I don’t know Ronald D. Moore. Never met the guy…but I’m a writer and friends, it was just a small inside joke that nobody seems to have gotten. And unless he has fessed up long since…and he may have….people have gone to their graves believing everything about that crack other than what it was.

So why wouldn’t Moore just explain it…especially after all this time? Well, why should he? Would you? No, of course you wouldn’t…you’d relish the joke all the more.

Just look at it this way…as the guy in charge of production you can do whatever you like. You can kill off Starbuck and then resurrect her. You can. And when you do it you can do away with all that messy logicking..because God did it. Get it? And the music that turned the final 5 on. That was a super classic psychedelic move straight out of the sort of thing that dynamic team of Jerry Pournelle and Larry Niven used to do in their books, Ringworld being the most prominent. Introduce outrageous stuff…that actually made sense, sort of.

I guess I have seen BG 15 or 20 times. These days I just sort of FF through the show picking and choosing my favorites. But I’m never far from it because it was one of the best TV shows ever made for many many reasons.

That’s the there there on that friends. Oh…but wait…someone axes…”What’s  BG got to do with a frakkin’ apocalypse??”

Are you kidding? Really?