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spoilers for “Revelations” (4.10)

To think we were this close to that being the end of the series. Thank goodness the writers’ strike ended in time.

Since Sci-Fi is making us wait until an unspecified month in 2009, I’m putting down this list for my own benefit:

1. Which came first—Earth or Kobol?
2. How did Starbuck and her Viper return?
3. What happened to Earth?
4. Where are the Cavils, Simons, and Dorals?
5. If the Fifth is known by D’Anna but is not in the Fleet, will it be Helo, someone already dead, or someone yet unknown to us?
6. Why is Hera so weird?
7. Do the parents have to die for the next generation to reach its full potential?
8. How did the Final Five come into being?
9. Is/Was there a master plan/planner?
10. Seriously. Everything else. Opera house? Six in Baltar’s head? Cylon homeworld?
11. Now that the journey is over, will the show be able to keep up its tense urgency?
12. What the heck am I going to find to take the place of this show?

I’ve been kind of down ever since I saw this episode. It may be because I won’t get another episode until months from now. It may be because of a general life malaise.

But it can also be that I’m so disappointed for these characters. As much as I love the series, I didn’t think I was this attached.

Earth may not be the sine qua non of the Colonial Fleet, but it is their raison d’être. It became so for the rebel Cylons.

For the dream of Earth, these travelers pushed their loses into corners, compartmentalized the excruciating things they had to do, and swallowed down the horrors of their conditions. All for the Earth of tomorrow.

In reality, I know we still have a half season. In fiction, I know these characters are tough.

… But I’m so sad for them.

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