I hate to say it . . .

[Richard D]

. . . but I was really disappointed with the last episode of BSG. Just too many leaps of logic, too many leaps of faith, too many unanswered questions, too much 'hand of God' stuff. Perhaps my expectations were too high, but I was left with a "huh" at the end rather than a "wow".

[jjanpundt]

1. I agree with the "huh". I was hoping for much more. n/t

[wyldwolf]

2. it was a little heavy on the 'God' stuff and even though it was somewhat predictable...

.. I did like the way it turned out - how the events of the series happened 100,000 years ago.

[seasat]

3. I was originally a little disappointed but it grew on me.

I was guessing another ending. Something along the lines of humans and cylons actually having similar origins and the original creators of both races having disappeared millenia ago. I thought that the one true god of the Cylons would be some sort of ancient computer that was trying to bring the two groups together. Their ending caught me by surprise but they had dropped hints about it throughout the series.

I started recalling the other episodes and the hints that they had laid down. The whole story loosely comes from the Judeo/Christian Bible. It had the 12 tribes with a chosen people lost in the wilderness. It had the sacrificial death followed by miraculous resurrection of Starbuck who then disappeared after her work was finished. A child was born that represented their salvation. Cavil came across as a pretty good Herod. Baltar became a John the Baptist prophet. There were many more references that followed the Bible. It was a puzzle that should have been more obvious but they obscured it with some clever misdirection.

[Ezlivin]

4. So say we all

I was bitterly disappointed at the BSG finale. Where'd all the science go?

After all those years they just abandon modern technology and set out with backpacks? C'mon! Who would really want to go back to primitive medicine? It's hard to believe that the Doctor would just walk away from X-Rays, antibiotics and blood transfusions. And there was no dissenters, not even one? Hell, if we tried to simply ban cellphone use while driving people would not want to give up that technology without a big fight. Not one person out of the 30K+ wanted to retain all or even some of the technology? Really?

I also found it quite unbelievable that Admiral Adama would leave all of his friends behind. Did he not have a life-long bond with Tigh?

But when Starbuck simply vanished I knew that the show had FTL jumped the shark.

Deus ex machina is a poor writer's exit strategy.

[Richard D]

5. Plus . . . .

. . . the idea that Hera was the primal Eve. I mean, none of the other 30K people had kids? And there were already tribal people present. Didn't work for me.

And then the Greek Gods - the idea of that somehow vanishing and then re-appearing full blown 140 plus thousand years later along with a very Judaic concept of one God. Aarrgghhh. It felt like i used to feel when I was writing a paper I was sick of writing and just finished the last few parts as fast as I could without thinking it all through. Got a few C's doing that. About what I'd grade that episode. Pity because I totally was enthralled with the series till then.

[Touchdown]

6. Well, at least Gaelen's departure was clever.

Found an Island off of a northern continent that's cold and rainy. He'll live in the highlands... Centuries later his descendants would speak Gaelic.:D

[Orrex]

7. Cute, but...

It wasn't just centuries later... More like 100+ millennia later!

[Touchdown]

8. OK 14,640 centuries later

I like "century".:P

EDIT: Off a decimal point.:dunce: