BSG Finale Short Thoughts

On the whole, I thought the first half was much, much stronger than the second half. It felt like BSG, whereas the Our Earth / Nouveau-"Earth" segments were much weaker.

HELO LIVED. LORD GOD ALMIGHTY HELO LIVED. Which is good, or I'd be sending Ron Moore some flaming poo.

I really liked Baltar's final arc, where he finally got it. That it wasn't about him. If Gaius Baltar of all people can be redeemed, can't we all? Also, the farmer reference made me just a little misty.

Also loved how Caprica Six played out. She's consistently been one of my favorite characters, and I was glad that in the end, she found some bit of happiness.

True to form, even dead, Racetrack saves everyone.

Ohhhh, Roslin. The moment we were all waiting for and dreading. Her death was beautifully played. Also, she got a measure of her humanity back in the sickbay-- a return to the Roslin who was all about people as people and not as concepts. Beautiful.

I hated, hated, HATED the sorta-kinda-resolution of Kara's story. It's clear to me that the writers wrote themselves into a goddamn corner and had no idea how to write themselves out. So, if Head!Six and Head!Baltar were somehow agents of a higher power... which, okay, whatever, I'll buy that... what the fuck was Kara? Or Slick, the piano player? 'Angels'? A ghost? I'll buy that for Slick (who may have existed only for Kara), but it makes no fucking sense for Kara. Several people saw/touched her. I really, really wish they'd have explained this better... you don't kill off a main character dramatically, then make a big stink about "WHAT AM I???" and never quite pay it off. BLARGH. And dude, if she was an angel, wouldn't she fucking know she was an angel? Or a ghost? It played like "oh, I did what I knew I had to do, even though before right now I had no clue what that was, and I am at peace now. BAI."

HOW DID HERA KNOW WATCHTOWER/THE LOCATION OF 'EARTH'?? PLEASE TO BE 'SPLAINING GODSDAMMIT.

PS. I remember having an EPIC argument with the ex about how the use of Watchtower clearly meant that the BSG universe was in our distant past and he was having none of it. SUCK ON THAT, WEINER. ALSO, SAUL TIGH WAS SO A CYLON. NEENER MOTHERFUCKING NEENER.

Okay, back to positive. The Opera House played out pretty cool, actually. Except then Cavill was there and I was yelling at my TV "WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR, SHOOT HIM" for about five minutes. But I liked that he ate his gun in the end.

Also, Galen killing Tory with his bare hands was SO AWESOME. (I find it hilarious that I hate Tory so much, as I love Rekha Sharma... the story she told about her father, the Hindu priest, during The Last Frakking Special made me DIIIIE.)

Oh Sam. Not really sure how else he could have gone out, but I would have loved to see him live. Ah well. I think Trucco did a great job in these last couple of eps.

The back to nature thing felt really weird to me. I think I buy it, but I would have definitely preferred to see Lee assume power with Romo at his back and Hoshi as the new military commander. To have everything just erased... well, I guess it makes thematic sense, but it was a little emotionally unsatisfying to me.

What WAS emotionally satisfying? Lee leading a group of frakkin' CENTURIONS into battle and watching them interact. THAT WAS AWESOME.

AS WELL AS GALACTICA FUCKING CRASHING INTO THE COLONY. BAD. ASS.

THE AGATHONS LIVED. LALALALALALLA. LA!

Hera Agathon, human-cylon hybrid... mankind's missing link.

Hahaha, RDM cameo.

I would have rather seen Starbuck in NYC instead of the other head characters, but... enh, I guess the point got across.

PPS, we are all human/cylon hybrids. If that means I'm a descendant of Helo, is it therefore wrong for me to perv on him?

So, I think that's all I got on the first watch. Your take?