AS ALWAYS, IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THE SHOW YET, DON'T READ FURTHER, AS THERE ARE SPOILERS.

Episode One.

Episode Two.

Episode Three.

Episode Four.

Episode Five.

Episode Six. 

Episode Seven.

Episode Eight. 

Episode Nine.

Well, well, here we are. At the final blog of the final season of Battlestar Galactica. I'm both happy and sad about it. I mean, I'm happy the show is going out before it dies an ugly death twelve seasons from now. But, I'm sad one of my favorite shows is going away forever. Ah well.

Anyway, just so you know, those with TIVO, you may be cursing Scifi as of tomorrow morning BECAUSE on my television, not only did the first viewing start at 6pm, which means I have to wait until 8pm to see it. (I'm putting the Kid to bed at 6.) But my television guide tells me that the current two hour episode is actually two hours and eleven minutes and ends at 8:11pm. And so, I imagine tomorrow I'm going to hear some nasty cursing about this stuff. 

The boys are fine. 

He Who Is Sweet is looking particularly spooky.

And He Who Is Handome is admiring his handsomeness. 

And has clearly put his damp paw on my computer screen.

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I loved this show. I think that goes without saying. I mean, obviously I loved this show. I was nutball enough to blog it every Friday, instead of grading papers, which is what I should be doing, let me tell you.

I'm pretty certain a big bunch of people will be disappointed in the finale. Who knows? I may be one of them. But my guess is, for me, it's going to be hard to separate the disappointment of it ending from any other disappointments. My guess about others is that some people will continue to ostentatiously hate the Space Religion stuff, which, it's been here since the first season, people! How can this stuff be a shock? 

 But I guess we'll find out, won't we?

By the way, I'm bound to make TONS of mistakes tonight. It's two hours and some. I'll be tired. Feel free to call me on any mistake you find. Then, after it's over, we'll discuss. Well, okay, I'll discuss a little. And then you can all comment. Which will be fun. Or you know, not, if there's a lot of yelling. 

My predictions for tonight. More people we like will die. Not every part of the story will end to our satisfaction. Some of it will be mystical in nature. Maybe a lot of it.

I DO have an actual theory, but it's super, duper dark. So, I'll let you know at the end if I was right about it or not. 

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Before we begin, I must tell you I watched the last episode again, and I'm convinced it's brilliant television or brilliant any other vision actually. Very subtle stuff occurs that's pretty clear on a second viewing. Gaius's father's cruelty to Gaius. The cracks about farming when Gaius is so into his urban identity. Laura's behavior after finding out her whole family is dead. We see why she can become the president of the last of humanity and why part of her died that day with her family. Hotdog with Nikki. Clearly, he's taken over that father role, huh? Sam talking about perfection, that perfection is the perfect throw, making the perfect catch, those moments when you feel the perfection of creation, the beauty of physics and mathematics, that perfection to which he wants to be connected.

But the main thing is showing the beginning, before the fall of Caprica, how we got here.

We must go back to the beginning.

Revisit how it all began to understand how far the characters have come and why they arrive where they do. 

And how does it start?

 With the previouslies, of course. 

We see Caprica before the Fall. Lee and Kara meeting.Laura's family. Gaius's. Then, Galactica, preset day. We see the previouslies of all the events leading up to Kara not quite herself, the notes, Sam, and Hera. maybe getting cut up. Yikes. The location of the colony and everything else. And we're off!

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We start back with Caprica of the past. In a go-go strip bar. Well. Saul has both eyes, which means I hardly recognize him, and he and Bill are drinking to Saul's retirement. While mostly naked women dance. Bill is debating taking the job, which involved a lie detector test and whether he's made a mistake. Then, Ellen shows up, throwing herself over Saul's shoulder. And they drink and toast. 

Meanwhile, at Kara's, Lee and Kara are sitting at the table, drinking and talking. Hey, where's Zak? Ah, Lee is talking government, and Zak is getting wine. Zak mentions that Lee and Adama aren't on speaking terms. And we find that Lee has followed in his father's footsteps but won't admit it. 

At Laura's, we see the guy who's come to take her to dinner. He's handsome and all. Laura keeps thinking that she knows him. And then she realizes he was one of her students!!! The Student/Teacher Fantasy!! Right there on the small screen! She looks flustered but lets him stay. Well, he is hunky there. 

Back at the bar, Adama and Saul are utterly shitfaced and talking about accepting money for a civilian desk job. I see now that I misinterpreted last time as an interview for Galactica, but it wasn't. It was an interview for a civilian job. 

Then back to Kara and Zak's, where Zak has passed out on the couch and Kara and Lee are left to drink together and er, really, really have great chemistry and nearly kiss.

Then to Adama, outside of the club, having the most convincing onscreen vomit I've ever seen. And then he laughs.

We segue to present day Galactica, where Gaius is wondering if he did the right thing. And the Head Six is talking about God's Plan. Whatever that is. One of his minionettes comes to check on him, but he's still talking with Head Six, whatever she is. Although I guess we did establish last time that she was some sort of angel, or something like that. I guess.

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Then, we're back to Laura and Cottle having a discussion about her meds, enough for two days, and how this is going to kill her faster, the getting out of bed and going stuff. Laura tells him she knows, and that she's grateful to him. That he kept her alive longer than she should have been and he has her heartfelt gratitude. He cries, which makes me a bit weepy. He kisses her hand and lets her go. She tells the nurse that her vision is going and the nurse says she only has a few days left before pretty much everything goes. And she prepares for everything.

Back at the briefing room, Helo is briefing everyone (thus, the whole briefing room thing) while Athena looks on, and things look a little better for them personally. Then, we go to the bridge where the planning continues. Basically, the idea is to just shoot everything that moves. Well, that's a plan of some sort anyway. In Sam's room, Kara is briefing the Cylons. They think Sam should be able to help keep everyone, like the hybrid actually, busy long enough to start the fight. Tyrol says the best view for Sam would be from the CIC. 

Then, we got to Adama asking someone to lead the fleet. He gives his pins to Hoshi. Awww. That's nice. Newly-made Admiral Hoshi tells Adama he'll see him at the rendevous point. And Adama tells him not to wait more than 12 hours, because, after that, they won't be coming. 

We see that Sam is being hooked into the CIC. Then, we see Adama hating it. Tight tells him that it's not too late to flush them all out the airlock, to which Adama replies, not enough time. ha.

Then, the lights flicker, and Sam goes online.

We see Romo has been elected president. (!!!) Wow. And everyone in charge of the fleet etc. is leaving. They all salute each other. Lee yells for the last raptor to go out. And Baltar walks up and starts to put his things on board. But then, he tells the religious nuts that he's leaving. He gives his cult to Paulla. How generous of him. And he gets back on the Galactica. Lee throws him a weapon. 

We go to the Centurians marching and we're abruptly out...

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We are back and in the CIC with everyone, getting ready to go. Tigh tells everyone to get to their battle stations. Laura is helping with everything in sickbay. The nurse tells her to put an X on anyone who is too badly hurt, who can't be helped. She picks up the phone and tells them sick bay's a go. And Bill looks up at her voice in concern. 

We see everyone ready to do battle, including Baltar in full battle-ready gear. Which is vaguely humorous. And then Caprica Six sees him and belittles him. When has he ever fought for his life? (My counter to that might be, when has he not?) He confesses he is worried and doesn't know why he's there.

Back on the CIC, Ellen says Sam is ready. Then, Adama gives his speech. We see glimpses of everyone's face during this part. It's pretty much "We're probably going to die but let's get going!"

Then, they go.

We cut to the singularity where the colony is. We see the SCARIEST CYLON SHIP IN THE UNIVERSE begin firing driectly onto Galactica. Lots of CGI throughout here. It's pretty good for television CGI.

And in the CIC, the Galactica is clearly taking a pounding. We also see that Sam and the hybrid are connecting. And Sam gets the hybrid to stop shooting! Wowza.

Then, there's battle. I'm not going to write as much on this part except to say, holy crap, there's a lot going on and all at once, and I'm completely confident I'm missing parts of it.

For example, I am completely taken aback actually when I realize that Galactica is going to, holy FRAK!, ram a hole into the other ship, the EVIL CYLON SHIP OF EVIL!!! Damn.

Lots of chaos and carnage ensue.

 Amazingly, Galactica still holds after the intrusion into someone else's hull, and then, out go the vipers. Then, we watch the ground assault team climb into the hole made by Galactica, to go after Hera. What's great here are the Centurians we see right with them. 

The bigger ships are getting pummeled with Athena and Helo inside. Then, we see Racetrack's ship go down. 

Back on the CIC, Adama tells Hotdog to move, and we see a lot of amazing shooting. Then, the bigger ships begin their part, tunneling into the outside hull of the Cylon ship. 

Inside, we see Lee and others continue to go after Hera, with some crazy shooting.

We cut to Boomer watching the operation commence. She's stunned it would still go forward because, I mean, they're being invaded. When it doesn't stop, she snaps the surgeon's neck and takes Hera.

I think I saw that plot thread coming a mile away. No way could she let them cut up Hera. No way.

We go back to a nasty firefight where the assault team still looks for Hera.

We see Laura waiting in the sick bay.

We see Sam having problems. Tyrol tries to help him and while that's happening, we realize Sam is basically trying to tell him that Evil Tory killed his wife. While Evil Tory looks on nervously. oops.

We cut to Cavil and company getting pissy.

Then quickly to Caprica Six and Gaius waiting with their weapons. We see that they have feelings for each other. Whoa. They kiss!! A bunch!! Then, we hear the Head Six say, "All the pieces are falling into place." And Gaius and Capria Six can both see Head Six and Head Baltar. Then, there's an explosion. 

Intensive firefighting ensues again. The assault team continues to look for Hera. And we see Boomer come around a corner with Hera to give her to the assault team. Boomer hands her to Athena. Helo says it doesn't change what she did. She agrees; she's made her choice. Kara asks them to get moving. Boomer tells them stuff about the direction that they need to go, etc. But Kara recognizes she can't be trusted. Even Boomer knows it. She waits and then ... Athena shoots Boomer, because she must. 

Then, we cut to the past on the Galactica where Boomer is talking to Tigh and Adama about being a pilot and taking her job seriously. Apparently, she's messed up. Adama is telling he's read her file and not to be wrapped up in survivor's guilt. Then, they talk about the ghosts of the dead who run around the ship. They tell her to do her job better. And she leaves. Boomer says she owes Adama one. She'll pay him back. Adama is doubtful. But I guess, finally, even after shooting him and everything else, she's kept good on her promise by returning Hera and sacrificing herself for the greater good.

In sick bay, Laura is putting Xs on the ones that are dying. 

Then, back to the assault team, who are still trying to get to Hera. They run into Lee who asks where the other raptor teams are. Kara tells him they seem to be the only one. They get going. 

Back in the CIC, we see things are quite a mess, but that Lee is reporting they've gotten Hera. 

Lots of explosions. Adama yelling, ETA five minutes! And ...

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Back to massive firefighting. Caprica Six and Baltar are shooting. Then, we see that they've made way for the team with Hera. Lee compliments Baltar. Then, there's another start of shooting.

We cut back to Laura. She's injecting herself with a drug to keep her going. We see then that she's having a Hera vision. She strips herself of her hospital gear and goes after the vision, to try to see what's happening.

We cut back to the crew coming in with Hera and yikes! Cylon at seven o'clock! Helo gets shot in the leg. Hera runs, while Athena begs her to come back, and Helo tells Athena to leave him and go after her. Athena is torn but does what he says.

We watch Hera go, and now she's in the vision again. Athena is walking thorugh the carnage, and we see Laura following her in her part of the vision as well. Then, we see Cavil with some Centurians coming in under heavy fire. 

We watch Laura run to look for Hera. The vision continues. We see Laura grab Hera as Centurians come through, shooting. She hides Hera, and Cavil and the Centurians go by without seeing them. Then, she looks around, and Hera is gone.

We watch Baltar and Caprica Six going down hallways, low on bullets. Then, we see that they see Hera standing there with her hands over her ears. In another part of the ship, the vision continues as Laura and Athena see each other, as they did in the opera house, and continue after Hera. 

And then we see opera house vision in full force, only now we see Gaius and Caprica Six are the rescuers, not abductors. They grab Hera and race to get to the safer part of the ship. Baltar starts to see the vision now, in the opera house and says he's been there before. And Caprica Six realizes she has as well. Baltar says that they are suppposed to take Hera to safety.

They leave just as Athena and Laura arrive, but they've closed a port door behind them. Laura and Athena struggle to get through.

In the meantime, Caprica Six, Baltar and Athena reach the CIC and see many dead people and Cylons, with Adama killing a Cylon as they enter. It's pretty gruesome actually.

Baltar and Six look up to the balconies of the CIC. The Final Five stand above them. Well, okay, not SAM, who is most definitely not standing. But you know, ha, they're there. Some of this is very corny, but I like it. And now the vision is complete. Adama realizes they've got Hera and tries to reach her, but there's an explosion. In that confusion, Cavil grabs Hera and holds a gun to her head. 

A stalemate begins. Cavil says they have to let him leave. Everyone refuses. Cavil calls Hera an 'it.' Baltar says she's not an 'it.' She's a child.

And then, Baltar starts to speak. He tells Cavil that he sees angels. Which is bat shit crazy. He admits he might be crazy, but begs Cavil to recognize that another force has been at work all along. Dreams. Prophecies.

He admits he doesn't know what it is, whether it's good or evil. Cavil asks how they know it has their best interests in mind. And Baltar says he doesn't, that It isn't on anyone's side. That there is no good or evil except in the human heart. 

A professor in religion would have a field day with this.

Baltar says it all requires is a leap of faith. This line actually appears to be reaching Cavil. Then, Tigh offers resurrection in exchange for Hera. Cavil agrees. They ask how they can trust him. He says they have to take  a leap of faith.

To prove it, Cavil calls off the other Cylons. 

It works. Hotdog tells Adama that they are pulling back. 

Cavil lets go of Hera and says he's as good as his word.

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We open back to the Cylons and the fighting as it breaks up. Everyone is standing around waiting. The losses on both sides are bad. Athena hugs Hera. Caprica Six and Gaius hold hands. Bill and Laura stand together. There's an hilarious part here with Bill talking about how the Cylons are going to share their technology where he talks about how ridiculously complicated it is, saying it's all technical mumbo jumbo. Which makes me think they were tired in the writer's room and threw that in as exposition, probably laughing about it as they did it. But I forgive them, because they don't really need to get technical here. It'll work.

The Final Five are going to put their hands in Sam's water and somehow connect with him and give the information of resurrection to the bad Cylons. Ellen mentions everyone will see everything everyone else has ever done.

HA!! Evil Tory gets nervous. as well she should. She tries to do an end run the problem, but Saul basically tells her to shut up.  They put their hands in the water and connect with Sam. And the download begins. 

As they download, flashes of their lives go through the heads.

Then, Tyrol sees what Tory's been worried about him seeing, her murder of Cally. He stops what he's doing and goes for her throat. Cavil thinks they've been betrayed. Everyone starts shooting. Tyrol breaks Tory's neck. And then, realizing he's frakked as the other Cylons have retreated, Cavil shoots himself in the head. 

Whew. Damn.

Then, one of the ships, with a dead pilot, Racetrack, it's Racetrack, dead, comes into view. We see the dead pilot's hand slips onto the controls. Shooting from the ship starts. And more firing occurs. Adama tells Kara to get them out of there. Kara doesn't know the rendevous ccoordinates but puts in the coordinates from the song, which she mentions and quotes. A series of flashbacks culminate in her seeing herself being called an angel by Leoben.

They jump.

We see Kara and Lee back on Caprica. completely plowed, still talking about destiny. They are talking about thoughts about death and we notice how closely they are talking and himmm, isn't there a fiance on a couch over there? Lee asks Kara what does scare her. She says being forgotten. 

We see Galactica arrive through space. She's buckling and twisting from the jump. (The rest of the fleet gets here, too, by the way.). And Galactica shudders a bit and seems to recover slightly. Saul tells everyone that she'll never jump again. Well, you know, duh. Tyrol looks depressed. Adama says basically, well, wherever we are now, that's where we're staying. And  Laura says well, Kara, where are we? 

And the ship passes what is recognizably our moon, and then to our Earth. Well, well. I was partly right. I thought that even fewer of them would make it actually though.

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We return 12 hours later. (Well, not really. In Galactica tv time.) The entire fleet is there, and they are landing on the beautiful planet Earth. Our Earth. Apparently, it's lightly inhabited by ... Man. Of some sort. Apparently, the DNA is compatible. But early Man anyway. They make jokes about breeding with them and tease Baltar when he takes it too seriously. They marvel that Mankind has already been recreated elsewhere. They contemplate the divine.

And where the hell did they film this? It's awesomely beautiful.

They've set up some tents, and we see Romo, Lee and Hoshi talking about the best place to build a city, but Lee says, no, no city. He thinks they should chuck the technology and start anew.

This part I must admit I don't totally buy. No one is going to give up their technology to start fresh, especially the shooting technology when they have to catch food. But we'll ignore that for now and cut to Lee saying to Adama that starting fresh without all the technology is a good idea. 

So, they decide to do it despite my protests.

Back on Galactica, Adama is relaying the way in which he wants to distribute people over the planet. Romo's like me and isn't convinced people will do this either. But Adama says people want a clean slate.

The Cylons agree to stay as well and see if they can be of some use in the new world. They are  giving the baseship to the Centurians. There's some chatter about whether the Centurians will turn evil and come back, but everyone seems to think 'Nah.'  And we see the Centurians jump away.

Then we see the more depressing part of the plan, where Sam is going to connect to the entire fleet and fly it into the sun. So, Sam will die. Some more.

We go to Kara saying good bye to Sam. She gives him her ring and kisses him. She tells him that she loves him. When she leaves, he tells her he'll see her on the other side. Which, hmm, what does that mean? 

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We come back to Adama, the last one to leave the fleet, which is as it should be.

He looks around and then gets into his raptor. He flies it out of the tube, and we flashback to the past where he is taking a lie detector test and resenting every minute of it. He's asked if he's a cylon. If he ever took money. He gets angry and rips the test from him and refuses to continue. Back in present day, he flies his ship past the Galactica and all the fleet, as it heads off into the sun. 

We see Sam talking about perfection again, as he flies the fleet to be destroyed. It's pretty beautiful stuff, this moment. 

Back on Earth, we see Saul and Ellen and Tyrol talking. Tyrol is going to go to what sound like some island off of Canada (I bet the actor really lives there, and these lines are a bit of a joke) to live all by himself.

They hug goodbye. We see Ellen and Tigh flashback to the hoochie bar, hugging and smiling. Ellen is telling him how happy she is that he retired. Because she wants them to be together. Now, their story is wrapping up as we see why she's been so pissed at him, for not retiring and staying with Bill. Back in the past, they drink to each other. In the present day, they are hugging and look at each other. They look a bit sad. Those days are at an end, certainly.

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We come back to a beautiful Earth, where Laura and Bill are watching what look like impala on the green plains. Laura is having trouble seeing. And breathing.

I do start crying during this part because well frankly the actors kick ass in this section. Damn it. I hate that she's dying.

Laura asks what they're gonna call the planet, and Bill says, Earth. She laughs at this. Then, she has more trouble breathing. Bill asks her if she wants to be closer to the impala and other wildlife. He picks her up and carries her to the raptor. oh man. 

More wimpy weeping from me here.

Lee and Kara see this exodus happening and head out to see him off. Because he's leaving for good. Lee hugs him goodbye. More wimpy weeping from me. Adama hugs Kara. And he and Laura leave. Laura puts her hand to the glass of the raptor, and they're off.

Lee and Kara are left standing in the field, realizing he's not coming back. Kara says she's not coming back either. That she's done. She's completed her journey.

We cut back to Caprica and the drinking night. Kara tells Lee she wants him to have sex with her immediately. They are both laughing. They start to climb up on the table to do it, and then, Zak wakes up as a candle falls. They stop, chagrined that they were going to do have sex and betray the brother/fiance. 

Lee says he better go. Kara says yes. They shake hands. Glad to have met one another. 

Then, back in the present, Kara asks Lee what he wants to do. That big goof.

At first, he says, when he envisioned himself here, he wanted to do nothing, just hang out and relax. But now that he's here ... He says he wants to go exploring. The camera cuts to him only. He says he wants to see all the mountains and ... he looks back, and Kara is gone. He's alone on the open plain. Kara was an angel. She really was dead after all. Damn. He tells her goodbye, that she won't be forgotten. 

We cut back to Caprica, where the dove (**pigeon, actually) has come in Lee's house. He wakes and looks at it. It gazes back at him, and then it flies out the window and away. It's free. (And the somewhat heavy-handed, but still very pretty metaphor goes with it. ;) )

We continue flashing back to Caprica, where we see that Laura has just had wild monkey teacher/student sex with her former hot student. She is looking in the mirror, annoyed with herself and looking lonely. Then, she asks Mr. Hot for Teacher to leave. He does, and she calls and says she'll accept the position helping the candidate Adar run for president. She actually uses the phrase "all the way to the end."

We take a moment to appreciate those events set in motion.

Back in the present day, Adama and Laura are in the raptor. She says the planet is beautiful. He says it's a rich continent. He tells her he's looking for their mountaintop, but while he's telling her that, she dies. He see that it's happened and takes her hand. He puts his wedding ring on her finger. I cry like a little baby. He finds their mountaintop. He lands the raptor. 

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 The sun rises on Earth, and we see different groups of people going off in different directions. Romo is going with his group. Ellen and Tigh are going hand in hand. We also see Helo and Athena with Hera, talking about hunting, which Athena says she does better. (I totally believe her, by the way.) Hera looks very happy.

And the camera pulls back to Caprica Six and Blatar and the Angel Six and Angel Baltar, watching the family. Six and Baltar ask if it's over (basically) and Angel Baltar tells them their lives will be a little less eventful. Then, the angels disappear. Baltar takes Six's hand and ...

We see them back on Caprica. Baltar is about to betray the entire world. They meet in the courtyard. Baltar almost confesses he's doing it for love, and we realize he really did love her but was too afraid to ever say that. He blows off the suggestion. In the present he tells her that there's a good place to start a farm. She is a bit surpised at him as a farmer. Then, we remember his father was one, and he starts to cry. She kisses him. And they go off together hand in hand, two ex-destroyers of worlds. 

We cut to Adama sitting and talking about where he's built the cabin. He's at Laura's grave. I choke up again like the weenie I am. The camera pulls back to beautiful land. We fade to black and then  .... And then, it reopens on Hera, walking. As she  looks up to the sky, the camera skims over land and desert and sea to segue to present day New York. 

150,000 years later ...

Angel Six is reading about archaeologists finding the DNA "mother" of all humanity. Angel Six remarks jokingly to Angel Baltar, "where she used to live with her cylon mother and human father."

Then, as they walk, they talk about how the society has degraded and wonder if the cycle will begin again. Angel Six says no, because if you run a complex system enough something surprising may occur. Which is an interesting way to put it. Angel Baltar is less convinced.

She talk about God, and then, Angel Gaius says "You know It doesn't like to be called that." Which ... Yikes. What is this mysterious force anyway? It's beginning to sound like the whole world is a computer program, trying to get it right.

And then, we see beggars and the rich, all the present day technology of robots and cluttered, crowded cities and people starving and walking and the two angels, walking away from us. 

And that's it.

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It didn't, I must say, turn out as darkly as I thought it did. Well, kind of. Because that last part was bleak and somewhat true. I'm intrigued by the misuse of technology leading to apocolypse. It's a pretty common science fiction theme. But I'll have to think on that some more. 

Frankly, I loved it.

This stupid frakking episode made me cry like a baby in places. Damn it. I so wanted Laura and Bill to have that damned cabin in the mountains. 

Best Line of the Night goes to ...

Cavil: "Hey, I don't mean to rush you but we have two civilizations waiting!!"

And I have no questions. Except ... when is the next series? 

See you in the comments!