Well why the frak didnt God just beam the whole Galactica to Earth in the first place? I guess for the same reasons he made the entire BSG writing team completely sh*t the bed for the finale.

This was a piss poor ending to a completely incredible series. Very dissapointing.

Now, one could pull the usual arguments about the “powerful being.” For instance, if it really cares about all sentient beings and has their best interests in mind, how come it allows them to blow themselves up – repeatedly? How come it allows them to be so cruel to each other? Et cetera.

As for humans evolving on Earth, I didn’t mean our species. I mean one genetically compatible with the ones we’ve been following (the Colonials).

They weren’t our species until Hera did the nasty with some tribal pre-humans.

# I’m still a little confused over the Thirteenth Tribe. Were they created by the other twelve, then went their own way, and then somehow the other twelve lost the technology? And how did they end up blowing themselves up – or did they end up creating their own machines?

Watch The Plan. You Will Know The Truth.

# I also saw some oddities. For instance, why does Cavil just kill himself like that? He never gave up so easily before. And why was Hoshi chosen for Admiral? And Lampkin as president? I thought those last two were particularly hilarious.

Cavil kills himself because it’s completely in his character to do so. He ALREADY LOST when he killed himself. It was over. There was no way he could get resurrection tech (one of the Final Five was already dead), the Colonials over-powered the skinjobs, and it was over. He took the cowardly way out. The idea for Cavil to commit suicide was actually the Dean Stockwell’s (the actor who played) choice. Originally, Colonel Tigh was supposed to kill him by throwing him over the ledge they were on, but Stockwell thought this ending would be more appropriate and Ron Moore loved it.

For those of you complaining that Kara is an angel, the show has always had a metaphysical aspect. Things have happened that have gone unexplained before. Head Six turned into a corporeal being that framed Baltar with some sort of futuristic photoshop, and then she promptly disappeared off the Galactica.

Point isn’t that there is a God, but there is something pulling the strings. Something that has the best interest of sentient beings in mind, something pushing us all along, and something far more powerful than we can comprehend. I love this ending because it leaves so much more to the imagination than any regular scientific explanation ever could, and it sets BSG far apart from anything else I’ve seen.

The ending was brilliant. It was far better than it had any right to be. They were making things up as they went along, so to have such a satisfying ending says a lot about Ron Moore, in my opinion. The one thing they always knew was that humanity would end up on Earth, and that Earth would be our Earth… But most of what they did was made up without any real idea of how it would end, and they somehow made it work.

I loved the Opera House thing, I love the fact that we’re all Cylons and we’re going to risk killing ourselves again, I love how sushi came from the colonies, and how so much of what happened to the Colonials was brought down to us – It makes it feel like it’s actually reality.

Here’s what I figured: Kara’s father was Daniel. Remember Daniel? The other model of cylon whose whole model was corrupted and destroyed? The artistic one whom Ellen liked and Number One/Cavil was jealous of? The mysterious cylon model who was mentioned a grand total of once? So say Kara was this model’s daughter. This would make her half-cylon, like Hera. And we see that Hera seems to have some clarvoyant abilities, so it would make sense that Kara has them too (more sense than Kara being an angel, at least!). Also, the whole “artist” thing ties in well with Kara’s father’s piano playing, and the super-important song he taught her.

Seriously, they thought Kara being an angel made more sense than this?

As far as the connection of Roslyn, Athena/Boomer etc, Galactica represented (or was..) the Opera House, and all of those people were there at that place at the same time……foreshadowing I guess.

I had much the same thoughts as you on the other issues.

I had much the

Hera sure had some knowledge, but I’m sure that Earth’s coordinates are tied together with the song in some way woven into the fabric of the universe (or whatever). I don’t think she specifically had the coordinates, she was just “enlightened” and able to see pieces of the universe others couldn’t, such as the song.

It was also pretty clear that Baltar wasn’t the final Cylon. Baltar never projected, Head/Virtual/Angelic Six doesn’t count as a projection. The existence of Angelic Baltar and Six independent of the real Baltar and Six indicates that their existences are separate and, in some way, real.

Hera had certain critical knowledge, such as Earth’s jump coordinates, which she passed on to her descendents as the Mitochondrial mother. She passed it on encoded in her DNA, to be activated again by herself 150,000 years in the future.

Baltar was the final Cylon, Daniel, whose model was subsequently boxed. Why? Because he was the only other character who could actually project. (Kara and Roslin could dream, but they never projected.)

I don’t know what the f*k Kara was, and I agree that this was the big copout. But I am still processing. Something might pop in there.