Galactica over!
Filing this one under Praise for a change, not because the episode was great, but simply because it's finally over. Don't get me started on Caprica or whatever that other spinoff is going to be.
True to form, the episode sucked. Adama leads a huge rescue mission to find Hara, the little girl who is somehow the key to human and Cylon survival. Many lives are lost, Galactica is now totally busted, but they managed to save the cheerleader, err, little girl.
They manage to find a NEW Earth with a primitive human culture already in place. Abandoning their technology, they decide to settle down to a nice primitive lifestyle, living in log cabins (did anyone see them bring hatchets along in their packs?) and hiking across the continents living off berries and what they can kill with pointy sticks.
Is it just me, or did none of these folks seem like the outdoors type? Yeah, sitting on a beach or on a scenic overlook sounds pretty nice, but after a few days when you realize the ration bars have run out and there's no food in sight, things are going to start sucking pretty quickly.
What happened with the primitives that were found? Did they breed with the new inhabitants, or did they coexist? The final scene implies that everyone alive now came from Hara, not the primitives, not the new arrival humans. Or was it Hara, the words only said Cylon mother and human father, maybe other offspring from this pairing were born, that led to the 'new' humans?
The first few seasons, we were told at the beginning of each episode, the Cylons have a plan. Funny how they seemed pretty clueless through most of the series, as far as I can tell their only plan was kill a bunch of humans and screw as many survivors as they could.
Towards the end of the series, it seemed that God was the one with the plan, not the Cylons, all the various signs from holy texts, prophesies, angels(?) guiding the way, etc. Seriously, what was the point of all that then? If God wanted Hara to get to the new earth, all he had to do was arrange for an FTL drive malfunction that stranded her there, and then just supernova everyone left. Problem solved.
Too many questions unanswered, the only satisfying thing is that I actually got my wish that I posted earlier. Ultimately, none of them survived. A happy ending, I suppose.