Why George RR Martin Hated Battlestar Galacticas Ending

Why George R.R. Martin Hated Battlestar Galactica’s Ending

Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin was a huge fan of Battlestar Galactica. However, like many viewers, he had real issues with its ending.

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Why George RR Martin Hated Battlestar Galacticas Ending

As the orchestrator of arguably the 21st century’s biggest TV event, George R.R. Martin is more than qualified to pass judgment on the ending of a show like Battlestar Galactica. The man behind the Game of Thrones books is a self-confessed sci-fi buff and regularly shares his insights on his favorite things to watch. During its original 2004 to 2009 run, Syfy’s Battlestar Galactica was high on his list. However, despite his general enthusiasm for the hit show, Martin is not a fan of its notoriously divisive finale.

Set in a distant galaxy, the series chronicles the conflict between humans and a race of androids known as the Cylons. After most of humanity is wiped out by a surprise Cylon attack, the Battlestar Galactica is one of the only human spaceships to survive, providing sanctuary to about 50,000 refugees. Over the course of four seasons, the crew leads other members of a fugitive fleet around the system in search of Earth. Receiving 17 Emmy nominations and four wins during its run, the show was one of the most critically acclaimed series of the early 2000s. Sadly, in the eyes of Martin, this legacy is seriously tarnished by a substandard ending.

Martin’s main criticism of the finale revolves around the extensive religious references. At the climax of Battlestar Galactica, it is revealed that the events of the entire series actually took place 150,000 years in the past and that several key characters are in fact angel-like beings – including the presumed dead Kara “Starbuck” Thrace – working in the service of a higher power. The epilogue makes explicit reference to the events that bring the characters to “our” Earth as “all part of God’s plan,” seemingly removing all human autonomy from the drama and suggesting that the action was somehow preordained.

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Like many fans, Martin was seriously unimpressed with this Battlestar Galactica revelation. In fact, in a 2009 blog post on the subject, he fumed: “Battlestar Galactica ends with ‘God Did It.’ Looks like somebody skipped Writing 101, when you learn that a deus ex machina is a crappy way to end a story…damn it, doesn’t anybody know how to write an ending any more?”

Given the show’s huge following and willingness to tackle difficult themes like theology and philosophy, it was always going to be difficult for the writers to bring Battlestar Galactica to a neat conclusion. However, as Martin so clearly pointed out, the eventual resolution to the story seemed, to many, less like a well-considered ending and more like an unfortunate cop-out. Considering TV and cinema’s mixed history with deus ex machina plot devices, it’s unsurprising that a writer like Martin took issue with its use in one of his favorite shows.

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