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So the last season of the reimagined Battlestar Galactica aired in the U.S. last night.

The rest of this post is my reaction to it, and contains spoilers, so

***HERE THERE BE SPOILERS***

Okay, so they found Earth, and apparently it's The Planet That Makes People Act Wildly Out of Character and Do Dippy Things. All of the tension was forced; I was seriously yawning at the scene between Adama and Tigh. The story about the foxes was clever, but not clever enough to salvage this dud of an episode (show?).

The whole Dee subplot was handled nicely and acted well, but dude, it came out of nowhere. Did they just want to get rid of the actress or something? Why was she more distressed about Disappointment Earth than anybody else? Or was she just the first person who had the bright idea of offing herself because of that disappointment?

Ellen Tigh... you know, I couldn't care less. This reveal was so painfully underwhelming. Plus, with a whole planetful of Cylons, there must be more than twelve anyhow.

I found it laughable that the Final Four all found some critical bit of wreckage at that particular spot on Earth to make them remember their past lives.

Conejo and I both thought Starbuck burning her body was a little silly. Other than the "golly, I just don't want anybody else to find out I'm a frakking ghost" thing, we couldn't think of a single good reason for her to do that.

Totally not enough Athena/Helo action to make this episode worthwhile.BAH.

I'll give it a good solid D.

The rest of the episodes had better answer these questions:

1. Why is Hera sooper speshul and Nicky is not?

2. Whatever happened to the accidental offspring of Tigh and Six? What does Ellen have to say about that?

3. What did Leoban know/think about Earth that others didn't? (Really, I just want more Leoban scenes, and not ones where somebody is beating him up.)

4. Did the Cylons give up on nabbing Hera or something?

5. Can plants even grow in seriously irradiated areas? If plants can grow there, and people can breathe there, why couldn't they just settle there? It doesn't look any bleaker than New Caprica.

[dolarabee]

I just DVR and fast-forward to Helo-shirtless scenes

So guilty!

I just watched it. I'm like you; I don't quite understand why they can't stay there. There's plant life, trees, breathable air and, as you say, it doesn't look any worse than New Caprica (in fact, it looked like a good day in England! ). If it is fear of exposure to radiation, they didn't seem concerned of it when they were digging around. Is 2000 years enough to be rid of nuclear fall-out?

But I can understand the disappointment. They've been on the run for so long, endured so much. They must have had dreams of a welcoming, inhabited world which would have taken them in with open arms. Comfy houses, beautiful gardens, wholesome food, culture, colourful markets, vibrant cities... everything they had lost they were hoping to find there.

For some (and I suspect it was Dee's case), that dream must have been the only thing that kept them going. Take that away and there's nothing left. Even that 'date' with Lee, though I'm sure he didn't mean it that way, was like rubbing her face in what she had, what she lost and what she'd never have a again with him. Hell, I think she came to believe that she never really had him to begin with. I was really sad to see her go and I thought, wow, that's a bit heavy and out of left field, but then again, maybe not. She'd just reached her breaking point. She was one who kept everything inside, wasn't she? Well, I guess she could no longer contain it.

And bloody Bill... made me cry when he came to see her body in the infirmary, eyes brimming with tears.

Couldn't care less about Ellen Tigh either. wtf?

I truly liked what happened to the Chief, the shadow burnt on the wall (always a haunting image for me the Cold War burned - pardon the pun - in my brain) and all that... but yeah, then you expect all four of them to touch something to remind them of where they came and, lo and behold, they do.

And I still can't stand Tory, especially since she found out she was Cylon.

Ma'am President having a serious crisis of faith is understandable. Again, I believe finding a Earth was what kept her going and fighting her cancer, and she finds out the 13th tribe were Cylon. Must be a vicious kick in the gut. Thing is, they're all revulsed by it but they've been allying themselves with other Cylons for a while now so... you know... you'd think they would get over that. Somehow.

But I want to know what Loeben knows. *And* I want more Helo!

Oh, and that reminds me... when I saw Tigh and Ellen together... they made this big deal about Cylons not being able to procreate because they didn't know true love (or some such thing) and only Helo (powerful lover boy) and Athena managed it at the beginning. But that's bull now, isn't it? I mean they show us in flashbacks that Tigh and Ellen were already much in love 2000 years back and apparently so were Anders and Tory. So what gives?

do.

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