bsg, up to 420 Well, that was interesting. I'm not quite sure how I feel about it. I mean, yay that humanity survived and all, but. Idk. It's grown on me as a few days go by -- I finished it Friday night, and here I am on Sunday.

I always want happy, shippy endings, so I'm really trying to tamp down on my annoyance at how the whole Kara/Lee/Anders things worked out. I mean, seriously, flying into the sun? And disappearing? And just hanging out in a field? Dnw. At first, it really pissed me off. Now that I've had time to think about it, I'm more okay with it. Kara and Lee have been just STUPID over each other for the entire series and I see no reason why they wouldn't continue to be stupid on Earth, even if they were together, and without those pesky spouses. I am a little (uh, or a lot) confused over what was supposed to have happened with Kara there at the end, though. /:)

I certainly could have done without the whole ~we can give civilization to the natives!!!1~ discussion there at the very end, especially coming from a group of people who have managed to almost wipe themselves out over and over and over again. Maybe your civilization shouldn't be passed on, dude? I'm also not entirely happy with all the Earthisms throughout the show, which I guess are actually Colonialisms that, idk, hung out in the collective unconscious until we got around to them? ...ok, now that I've typed that out, I'm more okay with it as an answer, too. 150,000 years is a long time for dry erase boards bide their time, but if astrology can do it, why not.

Somehow it just doesn't feel big enough for my tastes, and I realize this is weird. What would be bigger? Giant space opera battle, bad guys fall into a black whole, birth of Earth humanity, etc. In my head, saving Hera (and therefore all of us) is just as big a deal as wiping out all the colonies, but it doesn't feel that way. I don't even know what I would have wanted. I think I'm a little thrown by the lack of happy endings. It's really bittersweet, that so many people (ok, or four, whatever) wound up alone, with all their loved ones dead. They made it to Earth, and that's great in general, but where's the payoff?

Anyway, I'm glad I watched it. I wish I'd watched it as it came out, at least for the last few eps, but whatever. I sort of want to watch it again, because it seems like I've run across a lot of reaction posts talking about how it just tanked in season two and never came back. I didn't feel that way marathoning it, but maybe I wound have if it had been stretched out. I loved Prison Break and SGA when I marathoned them but stopped watching entirely once I started watching week by week, so maybe I would have done the same here? Dunno.