You've encapsulated my feelings perfectly. The only thing I'd add to your "liked" would be Baltar's moments with Caprica, from both of them discovering they saw head-angels together (FINALLY!) to him being the first one to mention "love" to Caprica (albeit, in a shallow self-serving way, you know just like we humans often do) to that last moment where he breaks down when he mentions that he knows a thing or two about farming.
Seriously, there was a lot to disappoint in that finale but James Callis brought the thunder and proved to me why he's by far my favorite part of that show.
I have a total love-hate relationship with Baltar. He was just so smarmy and let the hot women take care of him over and over again that I would keep rooting for his come-uppance, and then he would go into bug-eyed panic mode and somehow pull the only thing that could possibly save him full formed from his ass and I would have to applaud. (This is also exactly how I felt about Iron Man; I think I'm doomed to be the guy sitting on the sidelines shaking my head)
Roslin was really the character I was watching for, right from the start, and the last half of this season especially. She had, I think, the most complete arc on the show. Caprica may have come further, but we got much more detail into how each event shaped Roslin's character. I loved how she'd been confronting her mortality for the last half-season and she got exactly the send-off I wanted for her, at peace and getting to know it was over.
I still have a grudge about Tyrol from when he beat up Callie and then she married him. Actually, everything about Tyrol and Callie from that point on. The writers just threw him (and her) all over the place, turned her into a shrew, all the petty bickering, it was just plain unpleasant for no good reason. I don't like that he got to talk shit about her when she was dead and then be all avengey when it gives him the chance to take it out on another woman. Maybe with more attention that storyline might have been ok but I really felt like the writers made Tyrol into a trainwreck seasons ago.
Starbuck's evaporation could have been great if it had come along with some sort of sense of what was going on with her character. Was she a head-angel construct since she died in Maelstrom? Was she a head-angel construct even before then? I just wanted something hinting at something and instead, 'hey I accomplished my special destiny guess it's time to evaporate! You know, like you do!'
Also, head-angels are my new favorite explanation for
I'm probably one of the few feminists who didn't freak out about that beating scene. Because I don't think he had any idea at all who he was hitting. I saw a terrified animal lashing out at anything close, not someone who was remotely self-aware at that time and could thus be held truly responsible for his actions.
But yeah, they did mis-handle a lot of stuff with them. I missed the Cally who bites people's ears off. ;)
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Seriously, there was a lot to disappoint in that finale but James Callis brought the thunder and proved to me why he's by far my favorite part of that show.
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Roslin was really the character I was watching for, right from the start, and the last half of this season especially. She had, I think, the most complete arc on the show. Caprica may have come further, but we got much more detail into how each event shaped Roslin's character. I loved how she'd been confronting her mortality for the last half-season and she got exactly the send-off I wanted for her, at peace and getting to know it was over.
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"and Tigh's 'if someone did that to Ellen...': um, YOU did that to Ellen)"
One of the few times I can type LOL and actually mean that I did, in fact, do just that. Perfect.
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I personally liked the way Starbuck just evaporated. I can believe she's still out there somewhere, instead of being dead for 150k years.
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Starbuck's evaporation could have been great if it had come along with some sort of sense of what was going on with her character. Was she a head-angel construct since she died in Maelstrom? Was she a head-angel construct even before then? I just wanted something hinting at something and instead, 'hey I accomplished my special destiny guess it's time to evaporate! You know, like you do!'
Also, head-angels are my new favorite explanation for
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But yeah, they did mis-handle a lot of stuff with them. I missed the Cally who bites people's ears off. ;)
As for Starbuck, I've decided she's Maiar. ;)
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