Battlestar Galactica Discussions (MERGED)

Part of me feels that the "higher power" thing was a cop-out. Maybe they had written themselves into a corner. But if they had found another group of intelligent (even more technologically advanced) people, it probably would have raised more questions than it answered. Not every question needs answering (see the last episode of The Shield, for example). Although I'd have loved to have had a more "techy" answer to Starbuck's regeneration, this one sufficed. I was pretty satisfied with the ending, overall.

There are a few things which are left hanging - mostly, I think, due to needing to have another half-season or so to explain them.

Why was there such a big deal about giving guns to Baltar's people. I felt like they had a good plot idea and just decided to kill it before it got going.

Are there still other Cylons out there? I'm thinking probably so. They destroyed the colony, but there are certainly more base ships out there and surely there are some still on Caprica.

They never went anywhere with the plot-line of removing the restraining circuitry from the centurions. No big deal here.

And of course, why did Cavil kill himself?

Basically, there's probalby a lot of missing footage and perhaps some writing that got started but went nowhere. One of the producers said, in "The Last Frakking Special" that they were really having some problems with the plots, when it came to him to focus more on the characters because that was what was really important. I think he was probably right. I'd loved for there to have been a few more episodes and take care of both, but... cest la vie.

All in all, a very good ending to what I consider to be the greatest show in the history of television.