Battlestar Galactica - The Final Episode

[hsawaknow]

Cut and pasted from my comments at The Colonial Fleet:

I'm a mess of emotion right now.

I loved it and I didn't. "All will be revealed." Well, that wasn't entirely true... but I suppose I can take comfort in the fact that the show was ended the way the writers wanted to end it.

• The first 45 mins. are absolutely intense.
• The flashbacks, while nice, seemed kinda pointless in hindsight. Cool to see Tigh so happy though! (Could have done without the puking...)
• The VFX in this episode were great for the most part. Beautiful city shots. Seeing Galactica so tiny next to the Colony...whoa.  Not as good as Season 2 VFX, though.  The Centurions looked really fake in this episode.
• Centurions fighting alongside humans...very strange, and very cool.
• Nice to see the old school centurions too.
• Admiral Hoshi!
• President Lampkin!
• The Cottle/Laura scene -- I almost lost it there... Beautiful.
• We got to see the people operating Galactica's main guns. I've always wanted to see that.
• What is up with Hera? A lot of people died for her, and she seems so distant...projecting, I suppose...
• Athena vs. Boomer ended the way I thought it should. Interesting 'Boomer' flashback. "I owe you one."
• Hybrid Sam networked to Galactica: I recall the scene from the miniseries where Adama voices his rule of 'no networked computers'. He's traveled a long road.
• The Opera House? Okay, I like the connections...but it still didn't explain anything.
• Saw Ventrue in CIC! Did he survive though?
• Chief/Tory -- who didn't see that coming?
• Where was Leoben in all of this? Hiding under a desk somewhere?
• Starbuck -- an angel of god? Didn't explain her reappearance in a flashy new Viper, or her connection to Hera, or the music her dad taught her, or the mandella...
• Baltar and Caprica both seeing the head people at the same time -- brilliant!
• What about Baltar's armed followers?
• Cavil... surprising.
• RACETRACK!!!!
• Earth(2) -- I'm glad they all found a new home. (What was wrong with Kobol?)
• Tossing the spaceships didn't seem necessary. Didn't make any sense to me. At all. Centurions get spaceships and we don't?
• Bill and Laura in the raptor...I lost it there! (Got any more tissue, Professor?)
• I'm so happy Helo, Athena, and Hera got to be a family. Everybody else just scatters?
• Baltar/Six: I know a bit about farming.... I lost it here too! Wonderful performances from everyone. Big props to James Callis here.
• The "coda"...really? Really? The cameo and everything too? A bit too on the nose... (Why not just show clips from Blade Runner and then roll credits?)

I don't really care for the show being connected to our world. It lessens it somehow. I'm definitely gonna have to watch it again to really get a feel for it I think.

Still can't believe it's all done... No more new episodes with Adama, Laura, Tigh, Lee, Kara, Chief, Gaius, Six, Athena, Helo, Cottle, Felix, Dee, Sam, Cally, Ellen, Tory, Racetrack, Romo, and they many others.

The program ends, but doesn't have many resolutions to it's many plot threads and ideas.  Gods I miss it already...e.