My thoughts on BSG finale
1. It was God all along. Seriously? SERIOUSLY?!?!?!
2. "Kara Thrace will lead you all to your doom." - Still waitin for that doom. Seen doom, anyone? Hello? Here doomy, doomy, doomy!
3. Hera is the most important thing. She's absolutely vital to humanity's survival. We must risk everything to get her. Because... (Yes, she was the progenitor for our species, but as Baltar said, they were all genetically compatible. Hera was NOT necessary.)
4. "The leader will die before they reach their new home." - yeah, I suppose Laura died before she reached her home on the planet, but that's a bit technical (as in, it technically fulfills the prophecy).
5. Robot montage at the end = BE AFRAID OF PROGRESS!!!! TECHNOLOGY BAD!!!! GOD GOOD!!!!
6. Remember the end of Return of the King, with all the weepy goodbyes? This was like that, only... I didn't care.
7. Taking Hera to the Opera House. That means... going into a hostage negotiation situation with Cavil? What?!
8. I thought that there were TONS of cylons still out there. I didn't realize there were only two base ships left (the good one and the bad one). When things went bad with the technology transfer, I thought that it was "ON" again. Apparently, all the badguys are dead. When did I miss that?
9. Why did Cavil kill himself? I mean, I get that he lost, but... he was so in love with his own survival and evolution. It just seemed waaaay out of character.
10. So, that one ship just happened to rotate in just the right direction, and it just happened to fire its nukes, that just happened to arm themselves at the right range, and happened to hit the cylon base ship at the right spot and just happened to... oh, right, God. Well if it's God's will for the heroes to win, then I suppose there's no reason to feel any tension here. They're going to win. Period. Great. NEXT!
The good note was that I liked how they ended Starbuck. IF you accept the God thing, it was a nice sendout. I didn't mind the ambiguity. I would have liked it if her "I'm afraid of being forgotten" had been a series long fear of hers, rather than a set up 5 minutes earlier to make her end more poignant. Still, I thought it was neat, given the context.
As someone at work here put it, first they reimagined BSG, and then in the finale, they reimagined "sucking."
I really liked this show. I'm pissed off that it ended so poorly.