Ok, I'm breathing a sigh of relief. Episode 10 of Season 4 is the end of the series. That's a half-season finale; I forgot they do that on BSG. It would have made an interesting conclusion to the series, but now that I realize it's only half-way, I see a few things I was missing.

(Perhaps part of my problem is watching via bittorrent. I don't necessarily follow some of the meta-info that I would get watching SciFi, where they would also announce the second, etc. I'm paying for my pirating sins.)

(spoilers follow the jump)

For one thing, there's still a damn missing Cylon. We have the four out in the open; where's #5? And even though we made it to Earth, it kind of happened all of a sudden. One moment we're waiting to slaughter the last living humans and most of the Cylons, and minutes later we've jumped to Earth. That would be weak story-telling on a series that has been anything but.

And the other half of the Cylon gang: where the hell are they? They're still out there somewhere; even without the Four to show them the way, you know they will reappear. (Perhaps they'll have technology to fix the planet?)

Gaius gave the Centurions have been given some new info to consider: they are equals with the skinjobs. At some point, they are likely to act upon that knowledge.

Lots of fun stuff ahead.

I read Ronald Moore's blog just now regarding the finale of the "The Sopranos" —

Chase managed to do the unthinkable, the unbelievable and the unprecedented: he yanked us out of their lives without any resolution whatsoever. We were torn away from Tony, Carmella, AJ, Meadow, Paulie, Sil and the all the rest without any idea what happens to them tomorrow or even later that same evening. In real life, when you lose contact with someone, you seldom if ever have the satisfaction of knowing how the myriad threads of their lives resolved themselves. They are removed from your circle of knowledge and yet their lives go on unbeknownst to you in ways you can only imagine. The Sopranos are gone from our lives, but their lives go on without resolution, much like ours. None of us have tidy, revelatory endings that are the culmination of our "story arcs" and neither will they.

Moore calls the ending "poetic ... exciting ... perfect" and he wishes he had done it. So as we wait for BSG to return and to countdown its final episodes, bear that in mind: Ron Moore is not only going to try to emulate David Chase, he'll likely want to out-do him.

I can't even begin to imagine.

(And I completely forgot: What about Hera? She's not the only half-Cylon baby on the ship, either.)