I admire Ron D. Moore very much. He has taken a campy 1970's sci-fi show and turned it into a work of dramatic genius. I've been hooked since around season two first aired, when I decided to watch the mini-series to see what all the fuss was all about. I had been a bit nervous of BSG until I started watching the re-imagining because when I was a small child I had a very freakish nightmare one Christmas Eve when Cylons started coming out of my Battlestar Galactica curtains and started singing Christmas carols, necessitating getting my mother to destroy all BSG merchandise – bedspreads, curtains, etc., the next morning.
The series finale to BSG was nothing short of absolute brilliance. It reveals enough to answer the important questions, but then set-ups new mysteries which may or may not be resolved in the forthcoming Cyclon-centric one-off drama, The Plan, or in the spin-off series about the creation of the Cylons: Caprica.
I was shocked to find myself bawling like a baby when Roslin slipped away after dying of cancer, and when Adama slipped his wedding ring onto her hand when he discovered she had gone. The floodgates also opened when Baltar and Caprica Six were about to set off for their new life as farmers.
The show is very much centered around spirituality, and the "head people" play a very important role in this finale – not least right at the end when they appear in modern day New York discussing the possibility of whether the same events that played out on Kobol, the 13 colonies (including Earth Mk I) would once again occur. Were they Gods, the devil and God, or angels? Who knows. But whatever or whoever they were – they're old. And definitely not Cylon or human.
As to Kara Thrace – just what she was will remain a mystery. But that's what I love about this show – the storyteller doesn't (and shouldn't) need to spell everything out.
There is room for the viewer to fill in the gaps themselves. They don't spoon feed everything to you. There's enough imagination to go around.
Thank you, Ron Moore, David Eick and everyone else involved in the production of Battlestar Galactica. It's been a hell of a ride. And special thanks to the visual effects team – if you guys don't win award for this one, I'll be eating hats. Absolutely spectacular stuff.
