But... it was entertaining?

*shrug* I managed to enjoy it, even with the creationism-sized plot hole of "godddidit"! I guess they decided that they wanted to not only mirror the personal and political climate of the War on Terror (TM), but the utter lack of thought of the religious right too.

This article is giant lulz, you didn't even spell the main characters name's right.

Oh and they made it completely clear what Kara Thrace was. She was sent back from the dead by god to help the fleet find earth. Remember Anders saying "I'll see you on the other side" right before he was sent off to die.

It was an amazing use of 2 hours and they tied up most of loose knots.

If I wrote a review of the last episode, it would read much like this one. I would spell Gaius Baltar's name correctly, though.

The first 60 minutes were incredible, maybe the best action sequence of the show. Ramming Galactica into the Cylon ship was too much and then when they came to the agreement on the spot for their mutual survival,which is what propelled the show along,after Herra lead them all to that fateful moment. I thought it was perfect. Then to have the final 5 download resurrection to the Cylons and the drama that played out was wow and justified! I think maybe you need to watch it again because the show was always about fate and plan, everyone seemed to be a victim of fate, but in the end plan was shown to be a greater force reguardless of their own decesions. Come on now, you did not like how that song, "there must be some way out of here", when she punched in the numbers into the FTL drive was not great?
I think the writers did a nod to Star Trek and the prime directive in their decesion to abondon their technology, it was the force behind the viscious cycle anyway, and start from scratch. If only life could be that simple!
The Baltar story line was about redempetion and he was always motivate by his love for Caprica 6 and it was a nice twist to know she was having the same experience. It both leading and guiding to that moment when they really understood what love really is or to simply being allowed to have that chance.Love was what the Cylons wanted, not ressurrection and that is what they resented so much in humans.No matter how advanced their technolgy became it eluded them and the 5 had no choice but to become part of humanity to attain that. It was clear that for all this was the lynch pin playing out this drama and it is the force that allows us greater insight into the unseen world that we are very much a part of.
I agree the wrap up with Kara, although it was clear she had become an angel and her good by to Sam was touching, you wanted more. As for Admiral and Laura it was not as emotionally moving as it could have been but we had felt so much of their pain over the years with them, plus their characters had always been drivin by forces outside themselves.The fianlly made the deesion they wanted too.I think they also stressed the theme about how dreams and aspirations are another aspect of our nature,as it seemed for Boomer too, we can so clearly manifest it in our minds that it can become a reality. Bill only wanted to share a simple dream with Laura and he was able to take her to that perfect moment . As Laura whispered " So much life"
I think if you watch it again in a week you might have another view. It will be on Hulu on Friday of Saturday.

In the immortal words of Bill Lumberg, "Yeah... I'm gonna have to go ahead and... disagree with you there."

I 'd be curious what other fans of the show think of the ending?

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As usual, you've articulated what I could not.

Bleh.

I'm still trying to decide if Ron Moore is a self-loathing Luddite religious freak or if his final moral was humanity and cylonity are in the end, really fucking dumb and were too blinded by a stupid, sentimental idea to see they'd be dead in the woods inside a year. I had always taken from the show that the religious angle was completely subject to interpretation. I didn't realize with 40 minutes to go I'd suddenly be watching Touched By An Angel.

At least this saves me $50 for the season 4 dvds.

what pist me off was that Brother Cavel got off easy. He just committed suicide. I was really hoping for a long slow satisfying death for him. Oh Well. It was god overall. But with Lee standing in that field it made the death of Dualla pointless. After all he went threw there is no love for Lee to walk into the sunset with? He didnt get Kara he didnt get D he got nothin. I felt that was wrong.An the guy who reviewed neesds to calm down!

It was Jungian. If you want to complain that it was Jungian noodling, there's certainly justification, but everything that happened in that finale was signposted in the frakkin' pilot so I'm continuing to be surprised by the nerd-rage that FTR has most recently re-iterated.

Consider "God's Plan" as a corrupt computer program. The series need not be spiritual at all, in fact, as long as you take the collective subconscious into account, which the finale makes clear that we should.

Also, as far as the Adama/Adama "decision," we already saw what happens when you try to go on with the unsustainable tech of the fleet; New Caprica. Was New Caprica a good place for humanity even before the Cylons came back, FTR? Emphatically not. So they get to the point where their ships are falling the fuck apart, their gunship can't function anymore, and everything is still equally unsustainable. Why would they try to re-create the massive fucking failure that was New Caprica? Why not enjoy the multitude of delicious meat-animals that don't know they're supposed to be afraid of you yet? It seems better than living in shacks made of blast-scorched ship metal.