Kara, Kara, Kara, what were you.

I really enjoyed the ending. I could not help but think of the Bibile and whether it is God's word, or a revisionist history of an era when others walked among us with technology the people living then could not imagine.

A lot to think about from a sci-fi series.

I was stunned by the way Ron Moore managed to sew up the loose ends of the BSG mythos so neatly. Loved this series finale - they should all end so gracefully.

I actually predicted that we current day humans on this planet were Cylons. Maybe Ron Moore read my blog post about that! Just kidding!

Did you catch the old 1978 BSG theme music interwoven towards the end of the program? And - the dog? These were subtle paeans to the original series; I liked that.

I think Kara was as she was told, a messenger or angel, but along the lines of St. Michael the Archangel, who protects people from danger and in battle. Very complex and not resolved, as you said. I suspect Kara Thrace could be a spin-off program on its own right!

It's reassuring to see that the Stargate *ahem* Syfy channel will have at least one show for me to look forward to - one set in my favorite space universe since Star Trek. Not sure I dig the parallel storyline thing.

It'd be nice to hop back to the first Human-Cylon war, with pivotal story lines around the young Husker Adama.

I wanted to love the ending too and I did until they decided to ditch the ships and go primitive. No frakking way, given these characters and their circumstances. Stone tools survive but no one has noticed 150,000 year old raptors? How do the disembodied Baltar and Six not kill each other after having no one else to talk to for 150,000 years? First hour and a half, great. The twist of the peace falling apart immediately, and ending up at a new planet that happens to be real-life Earth, neat. But cut out the last half hour. Doesn't fit the rest of the series.

Can anyone explain the cryptic ending where Baltar says to Six that it doesn't like to be called God?

i might be in an extreme minority, but instead of going back to see the beginning of the wars, or viewing everything from the cylon perspective, i'd be interested in seeing a continuation of at least some of the survivors on this new earth... how did they survive with (honestly) little knowledge in the way of surviving without technology? did they avoid the native humans or integrate? how did their presence influence humankind on earth2 (hey wait, that was a pretty cool, short-lived series, wasn't it?)... just my two cents...

in the end, i liked the ending very much but couldn't forget that somewhere out there, a cylon nest was still in existence... are the cylons the ones buzzing our present-day earth? and on and on (rated)

Well, on my end, it was a more satisfying series finale than say The L Word. However, because of the whole mystical aspect of the premise with angels and such, it was a major letdown (the same with my wife, who not only loves science fiction, but writes novels on that topic). This did not fit the original concept of the series. It would have been much better to leave the supernatural stuff outside the series entirely and end it with a more reasonable ending. Based on this alone, I do not intent to watch any spinoff, if any, or prequel (i.e., Caprica). I also believed the story was set in the past.

While I truly enjoyed the entertaining series and ending, I have to admit, I found very disturbing scenarios and biases in BSG. First and foremost was the deliberate killing off and emasculating of 100% of the black race in the script, story and ending. This series and its final episode ended up being nothing more than a pure 'White' fantasy, with a pure,lilly 'White' ending, in a pure 'White' Universe, with pure 'White' survivors, Gods and demons. Every single black character was killed, murdered and mutilated in the BSG Universe. Adolf Hitler could not have dreamed up a more inspirational script. I found the ending disturbing. And I have zero taste for any more of this racist crap! There was no higher purpose here. It was in the end, just more bigoted space garbage.

Perhaps the show's Mormon past had something to do with both the supernatural themes and the doomed Black people. Mormons are big on angels - the angel Moroni gave Joseph Smith the Book of Mormon on gold tablets; and Mormon theology was rather anti-Black until a "revelation from God" in the 1970s led to the Black race as a whole being forgiven and finally allowed to enter the highest level of heaven.

I really wanted to like the finale, and I appreciate the hard work on the part of the fine acting ensemble and technical teams, but the writing was lazy and weak. Swept under the rug were so many (now-) false leads and missed opportunities: to keep the philosophical level at where it initially seemed to be going in the first few seasons, to truly "boldly go where no series has gone before", and to use some hard logic to make it more believable.

The "suspension of disbelief" is so critical to good entertainment.

While generations of cinematic science fiction enthusiasts have all been willing to set aside a part of their brains for the sake of following a human drama (I am specifically referring to Gravity, or the lack thereof in space, which would make running around in, landing on, pooping/pissing in, let alone drinking and f*cking on Galactica a rather difficult affair) it makes it all the more important to include common sense in everything else.

So here are just a few of the significant unanswered questions that arise from such common sense (which when unresolved, or blatantly neglected as in many cases here, render the entirety a big, gooey mess) - in no particular order, they are:
1. Why was Kara called "the harbinger of death" for so long?
2. How could a group with such loyal unit cohesion not even struggle with the issue of "going their separate ways" at the end, particularly in a presumably unfamiliar, potentially hostile environment? (Earth "2")
3. How could anyone build anything without any tools, let alone survive long enough to create said tools without access water, food and shelter (Bill's gonna get awful cold and thirsty up there on Memorial Hill. Oh wait, he has a flying craft...just fill it up at the local station I reckon.)
4. Where is Baltar going to get seeds to farm with?
5. The "Angel logic" questions raised by another post here...
6. Letting the "toaster slaves" go it alone int he cosmos, also mentioned by another post here, so they can eventually create more "skin jobs" and mess with Earth(2) again? That isn't too smart at all.
7. Hera...little Hera. So special for so long, and then disturbingly insignificant at the end. Besides, couldn't other Cylon-Human offspring be created quite easily?
8. If Ty was Bill Adama's friend from way back, that would mean that the Cylons created "skin jobs" way before the story arc/time-line indicates..in fact it would predate the 40-year Cylon-Human rift that begins the show's premise.

As I said, these are but a few of the "holes" - and not even all the biggest ones.

Lastly, I really hoped that the writers would have had the guts to explore the whole god/gods thing more, and particularly the amazing potential to suggest, or at least point to the possibility that gee-oh-dee is largely a human construct. And/or that the very existence of human-like Cylons capable of emotions, principles and higher thought indicate that man not only makes gee-oh-dee in his own image, but that consciousness as we understand it, is an organic phenomenon - THIS IS NOT TO DENOUNCE THE EXISTENCE OF A HIGHER POWER, only that our brain-mind complex is but a tuning mechanism for a certain set of frequencies (bandwidth) of frequencies in the all-vibrating, all-particulate Universe - albeit one which is capable of occasionally tuning in to other, more complex and comprehensive frequencies.

But I digress...or do I?

@ Sarah Place:
Good point about the Mormon influence on the script/story. But if this show was really just all about moron 'Moronic' dogma, then it should be tossed into the trashbin of TV propaganda where it belongs. That makes me even more convinced that my uneasiness was justified. Mormonism is much more like a cult than a religion. And many Christians think it is actually Satanic and Demonically inspired. After all, Jesus and his 12 disciples were very decidedly non-white. I am not here to pass judgement on that. But I can say this. Battlestar Gallactica was a racist story-line with a very racist conclusion. I, for one, will never watch another episode of this hateful trash. It is pure hatred masquerading as uplifting prophesy. Good Riddance BSG!

Radames Pera: Very good discussion points! I agree with all of them. I could add some more, such as the whereabouts of Tyrel's son (Hot Dog’s son to be exact). I assume he does not care anymore. I believe the show went for too long, which created problems with plot consistencies.

John Borders: My wife also noticed how all the characters of color were either cylons, mutineers or killed. She also felt the show was very homophobic, especially when they did not covered the sexual orientation of Gaeta in the main show, but did in the web episodes.

At about the point where Starbuck goes all Bewitched I was going, "This is mish-mash shoveled together." Also agree with above commenter re 39000 hi-tech star-faring kidz just shoot the fleet into the sun and walk off into the wilderness with their little bags of stuff.

Unfortunately for the producers of BSG, their up-to-then masterful story-telling probably requires another 10 episodes to properly flesh out.

At least we didn't have to see Starbuck twinkle her nose.

John: I feel your pain. There was only one disabled person (two if you count Roslin) and he ended up staging a mutiny and getting offed for his troubles.

The lack of genuine disabled characters doesn't make Battlestar Galactica any less beautiful to me. If you must judge it through the prism of a very narrow view of racism (Grace Park wasn't white, for example), then BSG isn't the right show for you.