The end of Battlestar Galactica

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First, thanks so much for y'all's help on my Dreamwidth questions.

I just finished watching the final ep of Battlestar Galactica, and was wondering what you all thought of it (of the ep, the show itself, and especially the last chunk that most recently aired, AKA the second half of season 4, AKA the last 10 eps). I'd love to hear your random thoughts and/or be linked to your reactions.

I'll be rooting among your journals myself, so if you're suddenly getting comments on older BSG posts, this is why!

I have Thoughts I Have Thinked, but I don't even know where to begin, so mostly I'm just sitting back a bit.

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This is kind of not relevant at all, but before I answer I just feel like I should mention that I was never a BSG fan until just a few months before season 4.5 started airing when I started watching the whole series straight from the beginning. I just thought I should mention that because I obviously never participated in BSG discussion before and never made mentions in my LJ that I was watching it (not like I ever post in my LJ these days) so I have this weird paranoid feeling that if ever I respond to BSG posts, people will be like, "Wait, where did you come from? You watch this show?" Anywho...

Anyway, I was kind of devastated and pained by the finale while at the same time feeling like story-wise, it was the best way it could have possibly gone, except for the part where Adama decides that because his lady love's gonna die soon, that means he ought to ditch his son and his bromance and live the rest of his life alone. And the whole devastated and pained feeling kind of made me feel like I won't ever be able to rewatch the episode - I certainly haven't yet, and there was a moment when I wanted to just rewatch one particular scene and had to be very careful to not watch anything else when I was searching for it for fear of getting upset again. I think my upsets mainly stem from people going off their separate ways - I'm sad that Tyrol and Adama were going to be alone for the rest of their lives, I'm sad that we didn't get any sign that Adama and Tigh had any goodbyes, I'm sad that Lee was the only person Kara said goodbye to and then he didn't really have anyone he loved left, etc... But, yeah, in general, I'm satisfied with the whole starting over on new!Earth 150,000 years ago thing.