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I enjoyed the Battlestar Galactica series finale. I certainly blubbered enough during it! The first half was pure poetry, with the brilliant payoff of the classic "vision" sequence. However, the episode tanked for me as soon as Lee's "no cities" plan came up and was actually embraced by the others.

Whuh? This is a society whose raptor pilots are offered the last tube of toothpaste as the ultimate form of incentive. This is a society that's used to a (more or less) ready supply of pharmaceuticals and cigarettes and feminine hygiene products and meals you may have to squabble for occasionally, but you don't have to grow yourself or track down and kill. Relief from an all-algae diet may be a brief morale booster, but I give them a week before some horde of survivors whose slates weren't all that dirty to begin with revolts and steals Adama's raptor and flies to some other part of the planet to create their own frakkin' city, thank you very much. Maybe that's what Atlantis was.

The idea of cities somehow being a source of evil boggles my mind. In its simplest form, evil is the human desire for power, unchecked by human empathy. Human, human, human. Whether you life in a city or a farm or a nomadic hunter/gatherer culture or a crumbling Battlestar, the potential for human weakness exists in equal measure. And the "moral education" of the prehistoric humans being painted as some kind of noble undertaking was WAY too "White Man's Burden" for me.

Also, I consider the explanation of Starbuck being some Wild Mass Hallucination (yet still capable of interacting with the world) to be a massive fumble.

Fortunately, there were enough Moments of Greatness that I'm happy with it, overall. The idea that modern man is descended from the Awesome Fighting Agathons gives me great hope for humanity! And Roslin's death scene had me in tears. Oh, and then there were Head!Six and Head!Baltar being awesomely smug in the Great Preachifying Coda! I kind of love the idea of them head!traveling about the globe, observing events and commenting in a similarly smug fashion. The Awesomely Smug Adventures of Head!Six and Head!Baltar! This I can get behind.

It was a fitting finale, a satisfying ending to an extraordinary show. Despite the fact that this post is 90% rant, I am a happy camper.

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