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Spoilers ahead.
First off, this was as good if not better than I expected. The attack on the cylon base was outstanding. Baltar and Six, Roselyn and Bill, Kara and Anders, Kara and Lee, etc. all really worked. I must admit I especially loved Athena and Helo coming out alive, I was very afraid that Helo was done for. I'm sad about the destruction of basically the entire skin job race, but it makes sense. It needed to happen for Hera to be the shape of things to come: humanity on Earth.
Still, very big things are still a mystery. We don't know who the third party is. We know that they were making sure that the cycle continued so that humanity was given another chance to make the right decisions, but we don't know who they are and how it is they do what they do. I've got my suspicion (I'm pretty sure it's a Baltar from a previous cycle that evolved into something god-like), but we don't have enough information to know. And while we do know why Kara was brought back and by whom, we don't know how.
All-in-all, Battlestar Galactica was about what television can do as a vehicle for storytelling. It was about throwing out convention and precedent, throwing off the chains of monotony. My hope is that Battlestar can stand as a model of how entertainment doesn't just have to be escapism, but it can be a mirror into our own selves, the best and worst of what we are, allowing us a better understanding of our existence.
Now, I'm off to make the thread about Caprica... this thread has happened before and it will happen again.
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