The Last Battlestar

Warning: if you haven't seen the final episode of Battlestar Galactica, and you don't want to know what's going to happen, then don't read this!

On to my brief and slightly disorganized notes on the last episode.

Overall, it wasn't the depressing, bloody, high-body-count finale I was expecting (along the lines of Forever Knight and Angel, where the survivors were outnumbered by the corpses). Of course, they'd killed off a substantial number of main and secondary (and tertiary) characters in the last four seasons, so it's not like everyone survived the whole series. (RIP Dualla, Billy, Cally, and too many others for me to list here.) Other than President (ex-President?) Roslin, the only other casualties were red-shirts and Cylons. The Big Battle ended with 45 minutes left before the end, and I sat through a commercial break wondering what they were going to do to fill the time. It actually ended on kind of a happy note, with finding another Earth, setting up settlements, and the idea that they survived to have descendants 150,000 years later.


Random notes, not in order:

• Did NOT need the Adama drunken barfing scene - we were eating dinner at the time!
  
• So their Earth 1 was not our Earth, but then Starbuck led them to our earth, 150,000 years ago. Meaning that the nuked "Earth" wasn't our Earth.
  
• Surprised at Cavil's end. (Apparently that was Dean Stockwell's idea, according to an interview I read.)
  
• Never found out about the 7s and their hypothetical connection with Starbuck and/or Daddy Starbuck.
• Who is Lt/Adm Hoshi? I haven't watched Razor yet, which probably would fill in some gaps. May have to buy/rent/borrow the DVDs for the whole series, if we ever have time to watch them. Our library doesn't own any (yet), so I may have to suggest them.
  
• Was Starbuck an angel or whatever, a la Head-6 and Head-Baltar? Cylon? Asgard with a transporter? I was really wanting to find out how Kara found her own corpse.
  
• I'm glad that Galen took out the bitch that killed Cally. I know a lot of fans didn't like Cally, but I did.
  
• Is Adama going to starve to death beside Laura's grave? He didn't seem to have packed any supplies before he flew off into the sunset with her.
  
• Glossed over the whole getting the fleet to Starbucks random jump location.
  
• What happened to Nicky & his bio-dad?
  
• Lee's all alone now (Starbuck, Adm. Adama, Dee all dead/disappeared).
  
• Did we really need a Ron Moore cameo at the end?
  
• Awesome Cottle/Roslin scene.
  
• Viva President Lampkin! Finally with a real live (presumably?) dog.
  
• End robot footage too cheesey/obvious/unsubtle?
• Really loved the theme from the Original BSG music when the Galactica was falling apart.

And that's about it for the first viewing. I recorded it and plan to watch again. I'd like to watch the last three hours at once, but that seems unlikely to happen these days.