BSG: Daybreak
Oh my God, I loved it.
I was fully expecting to cry. I am very surprised I did not. It didn't blow my mind or shock me, but aside from the fact I wanted a curtain call for all the dead characters, I was completely satisfied.
Something we didn't expect? Yeah, that's for sure. A HAPPY ENDING.
I didn't comment last week on Daybreak I because I felt it was such a first act, and I definitely agree with that assessment. It was a great episode, with some good character moments, space porn, and lots of questions answered, and now I'm just gonna go into fangirl mode.
-The truth of the Opera House: Holy shit, was that perfect. I LOVED the resolution there. It was Occum's Razor- simple, direct, and eloquent, and beautiful.
-Tory died. YAY! I am one of the few who adored Cally, so this made me ludicrously happy. Although when Tory was talking about 'finding out each other's deepest secrets', she sounded like a teenaged girl at a slumber party playing a drinking game for the first time.
-I counted seven named deaths: Skulls and Racetrack, Boomer (AWESOME death for her, and falafel_musings, I was thinking of your story, Cavil, Tory, Anders, and Laura. I am at peace with all of those.
-I actually really liked the angel thing, because they didn't elaborate any further. (Both the head people being angels and Kara being an angel.) And wow, way to end Kara so that both Sam and Lee shippers can be happy.
-I am at peace with Adama now. And I was at peace with Laura's passing.
-ADMIRAL HOSHI AND PRESIDENT LAMPKIN. Oh. My. God. We hit that point, hit commercial, and Al and I looked at each other and burst into hysterical laughter. All they need is a theme song.
-That said, I'm REALLY glad they used Hoshi and not Narcho for the webisodes. It did work out better, because it fleshed Hoshi out a little more. And that moment when Adama gave Gaeta's lover the Admiral pins??????? I WANT FIC, PEOPLE!
-Also, while I'm sure if Gaeta had survived he would have been Admiral, I'm glad he went out on the mutiny arc. It was a better way to go- much juicier.
-I adore Galen, and I'm glad he lived to the end. I'm glad he found out what happened to Cally. I get that he wanted to live the rest of his life alone. I'm sad that he completely abandoned Nicky. A part of me wants to say HotDog and Nicky went with him, but no. Nicky deserves to be around kids and people. So Hot Dog and Nicky lived right near the nice man who Nicky called Uncle Louis, and Hot Dog and Hoshi became good friends and neither of them quite hooked up with anyone but they had a bromance that rivaled Adama and Tigh's and they all lived happily ever after.
-The Fighting Agathons got a happy ending. AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW. Although for a moment, I thought Helo was going to lose his leg and I would have laughed my ass off.
-The closest I came to crying was when Cottle said goodbye to Laura. When Laura died, I was at peace with it. She saw Earth, she died happy, Adama buried her, and he was at peace.
-Caprica Six and Baltar. HOW MUCH DID I LOVE THIS??????????????? OMG, so much. Yes, I like Gaeta loving Baltar, but I don't like Baltar loving Gaeta romantically in return. His OTP for me is Caprica Six. Well, really Baltar/himself, but he's come a ways. And his destiny was to carry Hera into the CIC. HEHEHEEHHEHEEHE. And he ended up becoming a farmer anyway. And Ron Moore, I don't care WHAT you say, when Gaius and Six had their first son, he was named Felix.
-Oh, and head!Baltar and head!Six appearing? My second laugh-out-loud moment of the finale.
-Racetrack and Skulls have such luck that they took out the Colony when they were DEAD. I love it.
-The ending. Wow, someone's read Good Omens. :) I actually really liked Hera being the Eve they found back a ways back. And Ron Moore's cameo made me laugh, too, because it was so frakking obvious. Although I wish they'd used the time for the robot montage to remember the dead characters. YES, I WANTED MY CURTAIN CALL!!!!!
-Want extended editions. NOW!
I'm sure that's only scratching the surface, but well done, show. Well done.