Well, it frakkin ended.

[Hammerskjold]

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I said, after the finale to last season, that if Starbuck wasn't the fifth cylon, then they had some explaining to do. Well, they did, and they didn't do it,

For the storytellers to even have the spheroids to attempt what they did, aka having their cake, and eating it too. But yeah, I came to a similar conclusion too. They handled it well enough for me. Sometimes better a mystery than a po-faced heavy handed explanation.

I liked the episodes overall. I did see the ending coming to some extent, but even so, the sheer impact of "150,000 years later" was quite impressive. Not quite as shocking as the one at the end of season two, but still dramatic. They did the ending to the Matrix trilogy better than the Matrix trilogy did, especially since you know why you should give a flying frack about this cycle.

I was getting real antsy at first, looking at my clock and the scene before that fast forward jump. If it ended with Hera smiling on 'Earth', I'd probably shout 'FRAKKKK THIS!!!' It'd be a real downer for me if it all ended so saccharinely. Thankfully it didn't. While some folks didn't like it, I thought those real life clips of the progression of robotics was great. It worked in this context IMO.

... the grand arc of Saul Tigh, who is probably the only character story to really reach beyond its initial confines into something entirely greater.

I'm going to be slightly more generous here, and say through out the series almost everyone seems put their best effort in, even the actors that played characters who didn't have a lot of screen time managed to add something special. But if there is a character that deserves a 'grand arc' title, I would definitely agree Saul gets that nod.

Poor Galen, so often the one who throws the wrench into the works, who has to live with the guilt.

Cavil died perfectly. Hearing Dean Stockwell, well, Frack himself, was simply stunning.

With Galen in close second, at least in my book. Maybe that's because his character voiced my sometimes wish out loud, badly paraphrasing here,' humans, cylons, I'm sick of them all for now, I think I'm going to take a break and live out a hermit.' The guy can't catch a break especially when it comes to women in this lifetime at least.

If I was Cavil in that particular moment, I'd probably do the same. Damn final five can't even do a simple all hands in the hybrid hot tub download without something major frakking up. The final 5 has less connection stability than an AOL account. It's enough to make a guy say Frakk this and overdose on lead.

Overall, a fittingly epic and highly appropriate end to one of the finest science fiction series of all time. It was not transcendent, and it does not alter my fundamental judgement that they never did top the miniseries. But they didn't let us down either, and for a show of this quality, my hat is off to them.

This guy seems to like it as well.

http://www.space.com/entertainment/090319-...-galactica.html

And he sums up my feelings on it much better than I could.

"Science fiction works best when it's done as an allegory," Reisman said. "That's what's so powerful about the new show. They take on a lot of contemporary issues."
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"The new mission drives at the gray area, where you assume what's right and wrong, and it forces you to reexamine your concept of that," Reisman said. "Well, couple that with some good spaceship shoot 'em ups."

So say we all. :D