bluerosefairy

Okay, so it's 2 am and I've just finished downloading and watching the finale of BSG - and do you KNOW how much that breaks my heart, that it's the LAST EVER BSG?

Have some spoiler-ridden flailing and capslock.



- Bill, Saul, and Ellen at the strip club! I love how Saul's entranced with the dancers, and how Bill is all "grumble, growl, desk job", and Ellen's bringing on the shots. They are an utterly awesome OT3.

- NO, KARA. DO NOT START THE ADAMA MEN ON THEIR DADDY ISSUES. Oh man, Zak really can't hold his liquor, can he? Ten bucks says he and Kara got smashed on shots, had sex, and that's what caused the drunken pigeon-chasing.

- Shut UP, Gaius. Oh, Head!Six, you're still as cryptic and awesome as ever. Nice to know some things don't change.

- DOC COTTLE! Oh, he and Laura just broke my heart! I can't stand to see Mary cry - I'm a total wreck and it's barely 10 minutes in!

- Two days, huh? Two days for Laura to live.

- Wow, they're really going balls-to-the-wall, aren't they? Hooking Sam up to CIC, Bill ordering his gunners to throw everything at the baseship, Lee and his Marines taking responsibility for Hera, Helo admitting to his Raptor jocks that - as usual - they've got the most dangerous part of the mission. And oh, the little moments, with Saul at Bill's side and not with the Cylons, and Athena managing a smile for Helo, and Chief mentioning the snag in the Cylons' plan for Sam.

- ADMIRAL HOSHI!!!! Oh, Louis, if Gaeta could see you now, he'd be so, so proud. Bill entrusts the Fleet to the one successful transfer from Pegasus, from the first time they had a hostile alliance. Lovely.

- "Still some time to flush 'em all out the airlock." "Not enough time." SAUL. Oh, my bitter, wry, and racist Saul - still pissy about skinjobs in his CIC even though he's a toaster himself.

- WE'RE LEAVING ROMO LAMPKIN IN CHARGE OF THE FLEET? WHO, IN THE EVERLOVING HELL, HAD THAT BRIGHT IDEA?! Oh my god, President Romo.

- Ohhhhhh, Lee. "President of the Colonies and Admiral of the Fleet, departing."

- Hell has frozen over, people. One honestly selfless act from Gaius McCrazypants Baltar. Having the opportunity to leave the ship and not taking it, knowing that if he stays, he's going to die with the rest of them. I honestly didn't think he had it in him.

- Oh, lovely, Laura's in sickbay assisting with triage. Very fitting, very apropos for a woman who's got her own death sentence hanging over her head. I think that's a good place for her to be.

- Ooh, the roll call of stations is totally reminiscent of NASA's mission countdowns, and I love it. Laura reports for Sickbay, Tyrol for FTL, Lee for Assault One, Hot Dog for the Viper Wing, Kara for Assault Two.

- Gaius and Caprica with the Marine remnant, very nice. Dying together once again - because this has all happened before and it will all happen again. And oh, lovely moment when Gaius asks what he's doing here, and Caprica smiles briefly at him. Tricia's been fantastic this entire three-parter.

- And Ellen, watching over Sam's hookup into CIC. She would have to, you know.

- OH MY GOD, DID THEY JUST - THEY DID. THE RAPTORS JUST JUMPED FROM INSIDE GALACTICA'S HANGAR BAY TO RIGHT SMACK OVER THE COLONY. BADASS.

- Oh, NICE. They rammed Galactica right into the Colony, and Lee's assault team rappels right the fuck in.

- Man, Lee, that's some serious fucking metal hair you're sporting. What the hell is UP with his hair?

- Eeee, Racetrack and Skulls. Man, they are the elite of the elite when it comes to Raptor jocks, aren't they?

- KARA, HELO, AND ATHENA, BACK IN THE SADDLE. AWESOME.

- YEAH BOOMER! NECK-SNAPPING FOR THE WIN! Simon's all "blah, blah, tests and numbers and superior mathematics, I'm gonna keep drilling holes in the small child", and Boomer is having NONE of it.

- OH MY GOD, THE FANBOYS MUST BE GOING NUTS. Old Skool Cylon Centurions vs. New Skool Cylon Centurions in an epic cage match.

- Ohhh, Caprica. "I've always wanted to be proud of you."

- *bursts out laughing* Head!Six and Head!Gaius appearing to Caprica and Gaius right as they're making out before their almost-certain deaths. The simultaneous-talking: "I do? You see them?"

- AKFJDSJLKFGHKDFJGH BOOMER HANDING HERA TO ATHENA. "TELL THE OLD MAN I OWED HIM ONE." KARA NOT-WANTING TO TELL BOOMER THE PLAN. ATHENA SHOOTING BOOMER. OMG.

- Ohhh, wee baby Boomer, when she was just a Rook who couldn't land her bird on the deck. Oh, god, of COURSE she was an orphan. Because that's what Bill Adama does - he takes the orphans, the broken, the wash-outs, and he gives them a home and a purpose and that uniform.

- "The doctor is in. Check your neuroses at the door." SAUL. God, I miss when he was more wry than bitter, more teasing. He's so bitter now because, well, he has nothing left but Bill - and maybe, sometimes, now that she's back, Ellen.

- And there we have it - Laura Roslin finally, finally has some real blood on her hands. Digging in to tend to the wounded, the casualties of a mission that, once upon a time, she would have ordered without a second thought for the consequences.

- Awww, the lovers have formed a foursome - Kara and Lee and Helo and Athena. Love love love Helo carrying his little girl.

- Ouch - that shot of the Centaurion falling right in front of Caprica and Gaius is SO CGI IT HURTS. Pulls you right out.

- Leemo Kid! That's really actually sweet of you, telling Gaius he's done well.

- NONONONONONONO HELO IS NOT ALLOWED TO BE SHOT DEAD. OH MY GOD NO, HE TOLD ATHENA TO GO SAVE HERA AND LEAVE HIM AND IT'S JUST LIKE SAM AND KARA.

- Oh God, the Opera House vision's going to come true, isn't it? Athena and Laura chasing after Hera, only to have her run into Caprica and Gaius's arms. What that white light means, I don't know, but I'm hoping it's not death.

- Ew, Cavil no, get your creepy toaster ass off Galactica.

- Wait, what - Laura gets her? But Hera doesn't run into Laura's arms in the Opera House, she runs into Caprica's. Oh boy.

- AUGH WHAT THE HELL? SOMEONE PUT A LEASH ON HERA AGATHON, OKAY?

- Aaaand the vision is true - Laura and Athena are searching, but Hera runs to Gaius and Caprica. I swear to God, if the Opera House is CIC, I'm going to freak, because that's where they're headed.

- OH MY GOD. WHAT DID I SAY?! OH MY GOD, IT HAPPENS, THE FIVE ARE UP IN THE RAFTERS LIKE IN BALTAR AND CAPRICA'S ORIGINAL OPERA HOUSE VISION.

- OH MY GOD. OH MY FRAKKING GOD. BILL AND CAPRICA AND GAIUS AND THE FIVE, FACING OFF AGAINST CAVIL, WHO'S GOT A GUN TO HERA'S HEAD. GAIUS FRAKKING BALTAR BEING BADASS AND AWESOME AND STANDING UP TO CAVIL FOR HERA. Callis, you are fucking amazing - speechifying at a time like this and having there be a POINT to it.

- Ohhhh, Dylan again! "How do you know that this force, this God, is on your side, Doctor?" "I don't." Because well, what if Judas Iscariot had God on his side?

- SAUL. OH MY GOD, SAUL. "We'll give you resurrection. You give us the girl, we'll give you resurrection."

- Oh, wow. What an end to part two - Gaius Baltar and Saul Tigh united in a common purpose, bringing the war to an end. And Cavil tells his forces to stand down.

- . . . it occurs to me that I should shut this the hell off right now, shouldn't I? Only Helo and Boomer are dead, the peace has been established, Hera is safe, Laura and Bill, Lee and Kara, Gaius and Caprica, Saul and Ellen are together and happy. IT CANNOT POSSIBLY END THIS WELL.

- OH SAUL, YOU CAN ALWAYS BE COUNTED ON TO BE HYSTERICALLY AND INAPPROPRIATELY AWESOME. "For a moment, we're going to know everything there is to know about one another." "Looking forward to THAT."

- "Hey I don't mean to rush you, but you're keeping two civilizations waiting!" Oh, Cavil, you got your inappropriate and hilarious sense of humor from Daddy, didn't you?

- OH SHIT. TORY'S KILLING OF CALLY IS GOING TO ROYALLY FUCK THIS UP, ISN'T IT?

- . . . well, fuck, Tory. THAT'S why you don't go around using Laura's airlock on people. It breaks entire political alliances and gets you KILLED.

- OMIGOD, RACETRACK'S NUKES. She's DEAD, but the turbulence makes her hand push the button at the exact critical moment.

- STARBUCK'S NUMBERS! I KNEW THEY'D BE IMPORTANT. WITH THE SONG AND THE NUMBERS CORRESPONDING TO THE NOTES - THEY'RE FRAKKING COORDINATES. Oh, Kara, honey. There IS some kind of way out of here, and you had it the whole time. Your father - Daniel, most likely - taught you well.

- Dorky pilots! Oh, heart - I don't even LIKE Lee/Kara, but I love their drunken conversations and doofy superhero noises and everything.

- Ohhh, she has lead the human race to their end - Earth. But, but, not a broken and nuclear wasteland?

- AKDGMNSLKFNGLSFGN BILL AND SAUL AND DOC COTTLE AND HOSHI AND BALTAR ON EARTH!

- HO SHIT. THEY LANDED IN PRIMITIVE TIMES?

- . . . oh, wow. I think I know what they're going to do. They're going to live the way the primitives do, and set themselves up as benevolent gods and what the frak, didn't anyone *read* Paradise Lost or any of the fey legends. It is a BAD PLAN to set yourselves up as gods. And they've even got the names - Hera, Athena, Apollo.

- Ohhhhh, oh wow. They really are doing this clean-slate thing, aren't they? Splitting up the Fleet, settling on Earth, giving the baseship to the Centaurions, and then having Sam link the empty Fleet ships together and pilot them into the sun.

- *cries* Oh, Kara, honey. Beautiful. Saying goodbye to Sam, ripping off her tags and putting them in the goo, telling him she loves him. And Sam's response - "See you on the other side."

- Ohhh, Bill. Last one off the deck, last Viper out of the bay.

- *cries* Sam Anders achieved perfection, finally. He kept Galactica alive until they found home, and then he sent her and the Fleet off into the sun, burning everything fresh to start anew.

- Galen, honey, oh, no. Oh, you absolutely would want to be away from people. It's a death sentence, but it's your choice. Like Boomer, you have to make it, eventually. And oh, Ellen, achieving that rare grace again that she occasionally has, understanding his choice. And Saul, understanding his killing Tory, because if it'd been Ellen, he'd have done the same thing.

- HAPPY TIGHS. YAY HAPPY TIGHS AT STRIP CLUBS, DRINKING AND CELEBRATING. DRUNKEN HAPPY TIGHS ARE THE BEST.

- NO NO NONONONONONONO LAURA CANNOT DIE. SHE'S SHAKING AND WEAK AND IT'S PROBABLY BEEN MORE THAN TWO DAYS AND SHE'S GOING TO DIE IN BILL'S ARMS, ISN'T SHE?

- *sniffles* Ohhhh, Bill and Laura bickering over what they're calling the planet, and it's Earth, because dammit, they need to put that journey behind them.

- Okay, I fucking lost it when Bill picks Laura up and carries her out to the Raptor to see the giraffes. I am typing this through streams of tears and I do not care who knows it. And Lee and Kara following and OH NO. NO NO NO NO. HE'S GOING TO DIE WITH HER, ISN'T HE? AND HE'S SAYING GOODBYE TO LEE AND KARA AND "WHADDAYA HEAR, STARBUCK?" "NOTHING BUT THE RAIN". AND OH, NONONONO ADAMAS. AND KARA TELLS HIM TO GO AND HE KISSES HER GOODBYE AND OH.

- OH FUCK, NO. HE'S NOT COMING BACK, LEE. HE'S GOING TO DIE WITH HER.

- RON, I AM GOING TO FUCKING KILL YOU. STOP IT. I LIKE THE PILOTS, AND I LIKE KARA'S NEWFOUND SERENITY, AND I LIKE LEE'S DAWNING COMPREHENSION, BUT ONE DOES NOT FLASHBACK TO ALMOST-SEX WHILE BILL AND LAURA ARE RUNNING OFF TO DIE TOGETHER!!!

- YES THAT'S A BEAUTIFUL FUCKING METAPHOR WITH THE BIRD AND KARA DISAPPEARING, BUT LAURA IS STILL DYING.

- FUCKING FINALLY. LAURA GETS SOME ACTION ON THIS GODDAMN SHOW. YES, I KNOW SHE'S FRAKKING BILL, BUT SHE IS TOTALLY SMOKIN', HITTING ONE OF HER FORMER STUDENTS. YIKES.

- "We won't be doing this again. You can show yourself out." OH MY GOD, I WANT TO BE LAURA ROSLIN WHEN I GROW UP.

- MARY MCFRAKKINGDONNELL? I BOW TO YOUR UTTER AWESOME AND HOTTNESS. YOU ARE ROCKIN' THE TINY NEGLIGEE AND THE CIGARETTE AND THE YOUNGER MAN.

- Yes, that's *perfect*. That's what made her join Adar's campaign.

- BILL, DO NOT TALK ABOUT THE CABIN WHEN SHE'S JUST DIED RIGHT NEXT TO YOU. OHHHH, HE'S JUST LOOKED OVER, AND SHE'S DEAD, AND OH, GOD, THAT'S HIDEOUSLY PERFECT . . . OH, IN FACT, FUCK. THE SECOND NEAR-DEATH VISION CAME TRUE - HE MARRIES HER IN DEATH.

- HELO LIVES! HELO IS OKAY AND IS HOLDING HANDS WITH HIS WIFE AND DAUGHTER IN AUSTRALIA OR AFRICA OR WHEREVER THE FRAK THEY ARE. OH, THIS ALMOST MAKES ME SMILE.

- Ohhhhh, Caprica and Gaius and how far they've come. From mutually assured seduction and destruction to partnership, love, and admitting out loud you're nothing but a farmboy from Aerilon.

- All right - the last five minutes? With Ron's cameo and Head!Baltar and Head!Six talking about it all happened before, and it will all happen again, and Hendrix's "All Along the Watchtower" playing? Pure and utter crack which feels more like a movie ending than a show ending, but I don't HATE it. I can actually just ignore it the way I ignore anything in Deathly Hallows after the last chapter.

- . . . you know, I think I've figured out who Head!Baltar and Head!Six are. They're either Lucifer and Beelzebub, the two highest of the fallen angels, or they're the anthropomorphic personifications of Desire and Destruction (the meaner, less Gaiman one). Discuss.