Rgirvan44
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Finished!
SPOILERS END OF THE SHOW
MIXED FEELINGS
Annoyed at
- No explanation of what Kara is / was and how she returned.
- Was the final Cylon ship truly destroyed by the nukes from one Raptor?
- Why did the Cylon leader kill himself?
- Why resurrection was offered up so freely in the first place? The main thing the Cylon seemed to have wanted was to become a Robot again. Resurrection doesn't fix this. Though I guess it removes the issue of mortality and everything that stems from it.
- Why the Chief got away with killing the other final/original Cylon?
Enjoyed
- The lead up to the final stand off in the bridge.
- The idea of tying the new Earth to ours.
To add I thought some time travel would be involved with all the black holes and vortex's (quite sure Sam mentions it too in his ramblings before the op). I thought Kara goes through the vortex and from that moment there was one that finds Earth and one that dies. Then to skip to the end Kara finds Earth again but this time it's Earth ... the same one they found before but waaaaaaay in the past.
Oh and this http://en.battlestarwiki.org/wiki/Number_Seven my mind started to race about Kara's father / step father being the seventh.
To answer your points - (not sure why I am putting SPOILER but there you go)
No explanation of what Kara is / was and how she returned.
Kara was one of the HeadCharacters at the end - what the colonists called an "angel" but could be the visual representation of any advanced being.
Yet there's no closure on this. Was she always this higher being? Or was it only once the real Kara died did she awaken? Completely ambiguous. Which can be fine but in this instance felt like a cop out.
Was the final Cylon ship truly destroyed by the nukes from one Raptor?
The ship was sitting right on the edge of a black hole. The nukes knocked it out of orbit and towards the hole. The sheer pressure was crushing the ship and so while the nukes did some damage, it was really this which took it out.
Fair enough I'd forgotten the were within an asteroid field, next to a black hole.
Why did the Cylon leader kill himself?
Cavill had lost - he could no longer ressurect and with the other Cylons being shot to death, he killed himself - a final expression of choice which made his race more than just machines. It was actually the actors idea, and played into the character wanting to be more human than human.
It all kicked off so quickly. Why didn't they just stop the chief strangling Tory? Fair enough there was clearly a lack of trust ... bit of a stand off and you could say Cavil didn't want to live without at least having the ability to resurrect. I accept that. But before that point it looked like they were winning! They had battered Galactica a hell of a lot from the exterior and they'd managed to get to the bridge and they had the girl. The show made it seem as if everything was on their side and Galactica were the under dogs. Yet suddenly the tables turned too quickly for me to get with it.
Why resurrection was offered up so freely in the first place? The main thing the Cylon seemed to have wanted was to become a Robot again. Resurrection doesn't fix this. Though I guess it removes the issue of mortality and everything that stems from it.
Resurrection gave them immortality - when it was removed the Cylons finally understood what death was. Cavil wanted it back in order to continue his journey of escaping the elderly man he was designed to be.
Why the Chief got away with killing the other final/original Cylon
As Tigh says, no one would blame him for killing Tory. Rememeber he experienced the death of his wife in those moments. It was a pure, human reaction. After they get to Earth, what reason would they have to punish him?
Because he's a liability? Not the first time he's lost it. Add to the fact he had serious issues with his wife. Goes outright to say he resents her. Finally discovering the child isn't his he doesn't seem to care. Then starts to fall for Boomer. It's not as cut and dry as that but it's also not black and white to just say it's fine he strangled Tory to death when peace between the Cylons and Humans was resting on them simply completing that download. Hell if she had to die it could have waited?
Oh and this http://en.battlestarwiki.org/wiki/Number_Seven my mind started to race about Kara's father / step father being the seventh.
Daniel was invented in order to explain away a numbering problem with the Cylons
Number One (John Cavil)
Number Two (Leoben Conoy)
Number Three (D'Anna Biers)
Number Four (Simon O'Neill)
Number Five (Aaron Doral)
Number Six (Six)
Number Eight (Boomer)
Either one of the Final Five was in the position of Seven, which doesn't make sense or there was a Cylon between Six and Eight. So they invented Daniel to plug that gap so it is now;
Number One (John Cavil)
Number Two (Leoben Conoy)
Number Three (D'Anna Biers)
Number Four (Simon O'Neill)
Number Five (Aaron Doral)
Number Six (Caprica-Six / Shelly Godfrey / Gina Inviere / Natalie Faust / Lida / Sonja)
Number Seven (Daniel)
Number Eight (Sharon "Boomer" Valerii / Sharon "Athena" Agathon)
The Final Five (Samuel Anders, Galen Tyrol, Tory Foster, Saul Tigh, Ellen Tigh)
I did read the page I linked too  Just noting that it would have been quite interesting.
I loved the journey but I feel the Cylon story could have been fleshed out more in the last season. So I'm looking forward to the Plan to discover ... well their agenda ... honestly start of the series they are a large and immortal fleet ... against two battle stars. The fact that by the end they are a complete ruin is mind boggling.
Then the whole Kara / Six Inner / Gaius Inner - not clear what these are? Angels? Truly? Or some program created to guide events? They refer to God at the end ... is that actually God ... or a man made God ...
Whilst I was glad to see certain characters finally being able to quit fighting and live the rest of their lives ... it felt quite rushed and as it sinks in my disappointment is growing.
Apologies for the rambling. 
Some of your questions are left out there to be answered by yourself. But just because the word "God" is used, doesn't mean it is literally God.
And as for the angels - they are no different really to the Monliths of 2001 - guiding mankind at certain key points.
By the by - about Kara - she died in that werid formatation - and what came back was the HeadCharacter that HeadSix and HeadBalter were. What they are is up to you really. I don't really feel like they needed to be explained more than they were - the point was that even with the very human events on the ships, there is a grander scheme in the galaxy which we are only a small part of.
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