The ending may be one of the most brilliant endings ever in TV (my previous vote having always gone to Angel’s “Not Fade Away”).

All valid criticisms. However.

Making the Cylons mortal and blurring the lines between them and the humans was done on purpose. I think this will be part of the final season, as the various factions come to terms with their condition. Watching them fight it out and deal with these issues will be good drama.

We don’t know if Earth is completely toast yet and they do have the know how to survive on a nuked world. As we’ve recently learned about Chernobyl, nature can recover from our messes far faster than we ever thought possible. So, there’s still a lot of wiggle room left to fuck each other up more. It’ll be awesome!

In Six months.

Bastards.

Also, the irradiation of Earth makes many of the mysteries that have sustained this series, to my mind at least, irrelevant. I mean, who cares who the final Cylon is now? Everyone on Earth is toast, there are less than 40,000 humans left, and even the Cylons are now mortal. If they don’t kill each other or die of radiation poisoning, they’ll peter out because the gene pool isn’t big enough to sustain itself anymore.

Where do they head now? In three years and zillions of light years, they’ve only discovered four remotely habitable worlds: Kobol (cursed), New Caprica (no way in hell they go back there), Algae Planet (incinerated in supernova) and Earth (crispy.) How long do they keep searching, with all their hopes dashed?

Maybe it would’ve been better if they had faded to black on Earth. I just don’t see how they squeeze another season out of this after what happened.