Five stars for tension and finally giving us an over-the-top space battle after a few preceding episodes that dragged. I loved how elegantly the Opera House vision was explained – a premonition of the Galactica bridge in the form of a Cylon projection. And the meaning of All Along The Watchtower was magnificent. What else could it be but the co-ordinates for real Earth?

BUT...

How did Starbuck resurrect? Why did she vanish at the end? Was she just a "head character" like the Six and Imaginary Baltar? In which case, how could she interact with the physical world? And what were Six and Imaginary Baltar doing in modern New York? The "angels" thing didn't really hold water for me. The key seems to be Imaginary Baltar saying that God doesn't like to be called God – is this a meta-fictional joke about scriptwriter Ronald D Moore, who was the guy reading Scientific American in the final scene?

As finales go, it was as bizarre and open to interpretation as the last episode of The Sopranos. Thoughts?

Given how mediocre the last few episodes had been I was bracing myself for a major let down, but fortunatly that did not prove to be the case. However I did feel that there were too many "deux ex machinas" used to tie the all the loose ends. The mystery of Starbuck was never explained to my satisfaction.

but I kind of hoped the coordinates had taken them back in time, and "150,000" years later we'd see the original apocalypse all over again, with the Final Five perishing for the first time etc. A cyclical story, if you will.

But altogether I thought it was tremendous. I sat gormless for the first hour, glued to the immense scrap, and was happy with how things tied up. Would possibly have preferred it if Starbuck hadn't turned out to be an angel.

I spent rather a lot of the last 40 minutes shouting 'Hitch-hiker's Guide!' at the TV. Landing on 'primitive planet' and eventually supplanting the original inhabitants? Check. Depressed machine character? Check. 'It's a wonderful world'? Check. (Dialogue. Not the song, thankfully.) Character wandering around in dressing gown? Check. Thousands of years on, it turning out to be 'our' Earth? Check.

I was waiting for Adama to decide to take a nice long bath, but no. Oh well.

We've not been given a big battle scene since Starbuck disappeared two series ago and what a way to go out, Toasters killing Toasters, Old style Cylons making a welcome reappearance, Galactica taking a massive pounding. The sudden realisation that the Chief was about to find out what happened to Cally was my personal highlight

http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/entertainment_tv/2009/03/battles...

from RDM but I think many of the answers are up to the viewer. Laxy I know but like it says 'it requires a leap of faith'.

When the original series theme started as the fleet flew off into the sun I suddenly had summat in my eye.

And who cheered when Tory got offed? That was sweet sweet justice. Seemed to screw the Chief up and doom him to a life alone but job done

OK, I guess you might have seen it coming, but it was a great quote as they were about to escape...

...zzzzzz...

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