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Various exclamations from the series finale:
"Goddamn you, Chief. Can you not ruin just one thing?"
"What the hell, Starbuck? What the hell? You get back here and explain yourself."
"Well, I guess they got tired of her character only being half-dead for most of the season."
And I was kind of expecting a throw-away joke in the newspaper articles at the very end about the discovery of a fossilized Raptor or something.
I think my favorite parts of the series were the Pegasus story arc, Baltar's trial, and Gaeta's uprising. My least favorite parts were Tory becoming a Cylon (a.k.a. her license to be a bitch), Lee's fat suit (why couldn't we at least have gotten a Rocky-esque training montage when he lost all the weight? (One of these days I'm going to get the opportunity to use the word 'burlesque-esque')), and the sheer inefficiency of cutting the corners off every single piece of paper in the world.
I also hated the resolution of the opera house visions Athena and Roslin were having. So many seasons of foreshadowing for what amounted to moving Hera from one room in Galactica to another. Like one time I dreamt I ate Raisin Bran cereal, and then a couple of years later I actually ate Raisin Bran cereal. It's just not something I need a religious vision about. But I did like the resolution of All Along the Watchtower. Assuming jump coordinates are measured relative to the ship, it was probably the only possible moment and time that Kara could have discovered Earth. It's what we came all the way here for.
At first I was put off by the whole 'God as plot' bit, but in a genre that is so dominantly secular, it's a nice change of pace. I'm also glad they kept the God angle kind of vague, because when you start getting into the details of a sci-fi religion you get stuff like midi-chlorians. The less said, the better. Most of the time shows are more interesting anyways when they build up mysteries, not when they resolve them. See the X-Files or every episode of Scooby-Doo. “Gee, Scoob. It's h'like that character introduced earlier in the episode.”
I really thought (or hoped) that after Starbuck returned from the dead she would be all shining and awesome like Gandalf the White, sent back to life until her job was done. Plus, you know, kicking ass and taking names along the way. I mean, she had God on her side. She could have gone through Season 4 confident and pushy, but instead she acts unlikable and irritable. And then disappears.
After I finished watching Season 4 I went back and watched the introductory mini-series for the first time, which probably should have been the first thing I watched, but you know how things go. Anyways, it was still fun pointing at all the different characters and saying, "Traitor. Cylon. Screw-Up. Traitorous Cylon Screw-Up."
And now I finally understand one of my board game group's in jokes. Whenever someone is taking too long to decide on their move, eventually someone will shout out, "Why don't you just kill yourself?" This started before I joined the group when they were playing the Battlestar Galactica board game (which is fantastic, by the way. When else do you get the opportunity to say, "Ah crap, both of you are frakking toasters, aren't you?"). Near the end of the game, one guy was taking way too long to make up his mind, so finally one especially impatient player shouted out, "Why don't you just kill yourself already?" Of course, the guy who couldn't make up his mind was playing as Communications Officer Dualla.
