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There's a problem with bringing in a character like Daniel and then, doing nothing with him! It's a bit rediculus, I think, or a purposeful misdirection.
And for the writers to be surprised that people see a connection between Starbuck, the song and Daniel is a bit farfetched, too, I think, no matter what they're saying now.
sigh

Be that as it may, I thought many parts of the ending were beautiful.

Starbucks goodbye to Sam made me cry, as did his final, unheard words to her.

The presidents death and the admirals words on the cliff were also gorgeous as was all of that incredible scenery.

How Starbuck disappeared and her peace and smile at the end were wonderful.

Ummm, I do wish they'd given just a little more information on Baltasar and the cylon, though.
Was/is he one of the very 'angels' that he was wondering about?
Was he a more lasting version of Starbuck?
A hundred and fifty thousand years later, there they were/are, with the idea that sooner or later, repeating history with have enough of a change that the human-cylon conflict won't happen.
But, how do we learn from history if we can't remember it?

God is obviiously very much involved ~ I don't see how the Galactica humans could fit so closely, genetically, to the new planet and its life, without help on a pretty grand scale.
Heras cylon gene additions, especially.

Anyway, I thought it was a pretty good ending to a show that was undoubtedly groundbreaking, but perhaps, not so engaging.

again i didnt like the lack of explanation for baltaar, so the only explanation is that God protected him. Baltaar and Caprica 6 were seeing "angels" or God;s little helpers, lol, whether they are tempting or helping.

The final episode was moving, but, y'know, I think the ending when they first discovered Earth had more of an impact.

I left on vacation the morning after the finale, and I've been processing it ever since. My initial reaction was an overwhelming feeling of renewal that has stuck with me for the 10 days since. The rescue of Hera was probably the best sci-fi action sequence filmed to date, and the second hour? It reminded me of how important, special rare our Earth is and our responsibility to not eff it up. It reminded me of humanity's ability to connect to it's past ("real" and "imagined") and to reach for the eternal, and the eternal's occasional appearance to meet us halfway. At first I was astounded by Starbuck's "ascension," but why not? It's worked for other important human stories. It's not really any more mysterious than the Monolith of 2001. And Baltar. What can you say about a a character who is both the destroyer and savior of humanity, spokesman for the transcendent power of god's love, and finally the first farmer on the new earth?

I'm just simultaneously interested that my man Dylan was channeling a song that was millenia old when he wrote "All Along the Watchtower." Hmmm, with all the speculation why wasn't it "Daniel?" Too many chord changes...

My theory/hope was that it would be revealed that Starbuck *was* Daniel resurrected - just in a female body. It would've been a great play on the fact that Starbuck was a man in the previous series.

I like that idea, Drake! It's funny how the whole "Daniel" thing was backstory for Cavil and a CYA for the writers for skipping Cylon #7, but it's achieved a life of its own among the fans. Shows how good the show is to inspire that much creativity.

As for "All Along the Watchtower", it hits at the central dilemma of the show:

"There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke
But you and I, we've been through that, and this is not our fate
So let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late".

Namely, is humanity worthy of survival? Adama poses that question at the start. The answer to me seems "just barely" -- Galactica's humanity "survives" only in the genes passed on by Hera.

An AR thought I've had -- back in the Kobol episodes, the tomb of Athena contained the (2nd) Earth zodiacal constellations, which were also on the colonial flags. Now, there is probably NO way that the 1st, "real" earth could have had those same constellations unless it was REALLY close to our earth. So, I think the long-run "god/gods" plan was for humanity to end up on our earth.

As always when I finish a movie or TV series or book, now I want to go back and rewatch the whole thing with the context of the ending. Maybe SciFi ("seefee" is how I read the new name) will rerun over the summer. SO not looking forward to the end of Lost--there's a lot of that show I don't want to rewatch!

See i like lost, and i watch the reruns the next week when they have the Pop Up Info along the bottom. But they havent been playing the Pop Up episodes the past 2 weeks