SPOILERS

* Well. Well, well, well.

* A while ago I wondered aloud whether the final act of the show would end up having been about what happens to a society when it gives up. Turns out I was right, but not in the way I expected. ‘Tis a consummation devoutly to be wished, I think.

* In general I think the show went with the ballsiest possible “out” for each of its central conundrums. The Colonials’ “Earth” wasn’t our “Earth”! They really were angels! Kara just disappears! The inevitable rapprochement between humans, rebel Cylons, and hardline Cylons is scuttled because of freaking Cally! Hera is only kinda sorta the key to survival, all the visions about the opera house were really just set-up to make sure that a bunch of people saved this kid’s life…but then as it turns out, she’s Eve! Tack on a good old-fashioned thought-provoking science-fiction ending and I’m sound as a pound.

* It was a very, very good decision to spend so much of the end focusing on Gaius, my favorite character and my favorite performance in the series. I found myself wishing a bit that he was given as much close-up time as he was during that episode a few seasons back where Adama tortured him, which was where I really fell in love with him, but what he did with what he had was just lovely. When he said “I know about farming” and cried, that’s when I finally teared up. I love that poor man.

* Other things I liked: Tory getting her comeuppance and the Chief’s lonely denouement in Scotland. Tigh saying if someone had done that to Ellen, he’d have done the same thing Chief did, when of course someone DID do that to Ellen–Tigh himself. (Ellen seemed to notice.) All the climactic battle stuff, particularly the fate of Racetrack and Skulls and the Centurion-on-Centurion violence. The whole cockamamie plan for the attack. Cavil’s last word. Anders’s fate. Apollo finally getting something of weight to do once again: a) guide the human and Cylon civilizations into a new dawn; b) see Kara off. Laura getting laid (HOT). Kara and Lee nearly doing it (also HOT, and also a callback to the fact that those two were never meant to wind up together, godsdammit). Seeing Bulldog (I think???) among the Marines boarding the Cylon Colony. Admiral Hoshi and President Lampkin, no matter how ridiculous that might have been. The fact that the Baltar Army subplot went nowhere except as a headfake. The randomness and camaraderie of the Apollo/Doc Cottle/Baltar/Hoshi/Tigh/Adama scouting party. Giving the last words to Head Six and Head Baltar.

* Unsolved mysteries: What happens to the hardline skinjob Cylons? What happens to the freed Centurions?

* And of course, “You know it doesn’t like that name.”

* Oh, Battlestar Galactica, I will miss you very much.

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