Theoria

For the benefit of those who haven’t had the chance to see the finale, sarcastic comments ‘below the fold.’

As predicted, a variation on “Happily Ever After.” The only part I got wrong was Adama and Saul – they survived while the ship did not. The rest is details: Hera as mitochondrial Eve on our Earth. No significant deaths at all, beyond the obvious death of Roslin – who got far too much time. Roslin, by the way, has to be the worst triage nurse who has ever or will ever exist in reality or fiction. The only important question left open involving Roslin is whether it was Lee who was the drunk driver who killed her family or not. It would have been a nice touch had he killed her family.

Much of the rest was silly details: Virtual Six and Baltar as “angels” and the suggestion that the resurrected Starbuck was also an angel. Cavil, as always, was by the far the best character (in fact, he hasn’t sucked once since his introduction as the atheist pastor): starts off with sarcastic comments directed at poor Simon and then kills himself in middle of the final firefight on the bridge of the Galactica. Blythe was very upset when Helo suffered what appeared to be a mortal wound, but because BSG succumbed to the logic of the blockbuster, there was no choice but to have him survive the gut shot. The close quarter fights between Centurions were well done, especially the hand to hand combat and Cavil’s march to the bridge of Galactica was well done as his Centurions slaughtered everyone in their path. I’ll give the writer’s an A for effort in their attempt to get the shared visions to actually work out on Galactica, but it was rather silly. Still no word on the mysterious source of the note received by Adama at the end of the mini-series: “There are twelve Cylon models.” The last scene with Angelic Six and Angelic Balter in modern New York was rather lame and heavy-handed.

And, seriously, for those of us stupid enough to watch spin-offs (“See how it all began!”), is “Caprica” really beginning with a DVD/download only movie?