nameandnature

Contains spoilers, obviously.

The pace was good until they reached Earth, at which point there were multiple "endings" as we saw in the Lord of the Rings films.

infinitemonkeys said Golgafrincham, and I mentioned shaggy God stories (there's this guy called Adama looking for Earth: see what they did there?).

I was sceptical about the way the survivors all decided to chuck away their technology. As Pratchett and Gaiman said, people who try going back to nature soon find out why civilisation has been a quest to get as far away from nature as possible. That seemed like forcing the characters to meet the demands of the plot.

Speaking of Good Omens, Angel Gaius and Angel Six reminded me of Crowley and Aziraphale, somehow (perhaps because Gaius looked a bit demonic). In a way, I thought the explicit talk about God (who doesn't like that name) spoilt the mystery of just what the angels were. If it'd been me, I'd've ended with Adama on his hilltop; the stuff about modern robots made it look like it was going to turn into the Sarah Connor Chronicles.

They got the supernatural stuff right with Kara: she just vanishes, and we never quite find out what she was. She walked with God and was not, for God took her.

Loved the nods to the original BSG: the old style Centurions, and the old theme playing as Adama takes one last look at Galactica (this video and this one are fun if you remember the old series).

The opera house stuff was a nice way to tie off that mystery. The flashbacks worked well to show us the beginnings of the endings we saw. The endings were satisfying (and in Roslin's case, moving). I think Ron Moore did well there.

Now to re-watch the miniseries :-)

Edit: Peter Watts describes it as emotionally satisfying but intellectually empty. Metafilter has more thoughts.