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We saw the finale just before heading off to Carmel for a couple days for Bill Shatner's birthday (and mine, a day later). James Tiberious is 78. And today, so is Spock. We took Pascoe, as Carmel is possibly the most dog-friendly place ever. Though we stayed off other people's lawns. Granted, it's been many years since Clint Eastwood was mayor there, but still. Anyway, thoughts on the last Robots to follow. -I thought the finale was good, not spectacular, but it did what it needed to do. I wonder if the Chief was thinking, damn, a whole lot of people are going to die because I still had a hard-on for Boomer? Poor Chief. He very gradually became one of my favorite characters over the years, and really, who could blame him for staking out his own island at the end? -the Kara thing, eh. So it wasn't just me who couldn't think of a way to write them out of that corner. So she was a collective ghost? Um, ok. I'm not too bothered, I just feel like the whole "dying" thing was unneeded, she was a great character without that. The show did have a weakness for prophecy and destiny and all that, and Kara's was maybe one too many. Still, she embodied the dysfunctional heart of the show, along with-- -Gaius Baltar, and I was disappointed with his end of things. I felt he needed a reckoning, either in death or just in some manner of self-awareness at the end, and I don't feel we got that, but rather he remained self-deceiving to the end. A missed opportunity. -not alot to say about Adama and Roslin. Great characters, great acting, but I don't think they had their best moments in season 4. -Sol Tigh. This bit of dialogue (from memory, so inexact): (to Bill) "There's still time to flush them out an airlock." Yes, them. See, even Tigh himself doesn't buy that he's a robot. Neither did I. Maybe Robert Zimmerman could explain it. I doubt Ronald Moore could. -Justice for Cally! Oh that was so goddamned sweet, all the more because I didn't think it would happen. Tory, you're such an asshole. I loved that just when I was afraid they were giving us some kumbaya let's all just get along tripe, it got fracked to hell, and it was Tory's fault. I should have had faith. This was always a show about genocide, and they were never going to gloss over that. And one last time, fuck you, TWOP, and your random jihads against random characters for purely random reasons. Feh. Seriously, seeing what was about to happen, seeing it in the Chief's eyes, seeing it in Tory's eyes, we couldn't stop laughing. -very glad they found a planet. This was the bleakest of bleak shows, but I really didn't want to see it end with them still drifting on a metal ship, into more uncertainty. Very glad it didn't. -and a nod to Felix Gaeta and Tom Zarak, two of my favorite supporting characters. Felix was the everyman who kept his head down, never stood out, and followed orders. Until he couldn't anymore. The brilliant thing about the mutiny episodes was how divided I felt about who was right. Not that I could ever really sign on to it, but there were legitimate grievances. And all the while you had Adama & Tigh more or less saying, if these damned civilians and civilian govt. would just do what we tell them to do and not ask questions, the fracking trains would run on time. Zarak was a brilliant variable to add to the mix. He was hard to pin down, but I always saw him as having genuine principles which were undercut by his impatience and instincts for ruthlessness. One of the best, most chilling moments the show had was Zarak's line, spoken half with resignation and half matter of fact, "Shoot them." Brrr. -and finally, Doc Cottle. You improved every episode you appeared in. In other news, I got a belated birthday present today, sort of from myself. A year or two ago, Julia & Nigel, my sister-in-law and almost-brother-in-law, gave me an amazon gift certificate, and I ordered the 2nd season of one of my favorite and seriously underrated shows, Once & Again. Which was out of print, it turned out. Months went by, occasionally I would get an email from amazon asking if I wanted to give up on it or if they should keep trying to find it. I wasn't bothered, we're always behind on our dvd watching anyway, so I never canceled the order. I'd pretty much forgotten all about it, and then today I get an email telling me it's finally on its way. Sweet!
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