D'Anna actually is gone, but it's easy to miss. I forgot that at the beginning of 4.5 she decides to stay on nuked Earth, and she was the only Three still living.
*headsmack* I remember now. Another character ending that seemed a bit weird but not too awful at the time, but looking back now feels completely ... uhm ...unwoven (I know that's not actually a word but it's late and I can't think of the right one!) into the story as a whole.
I don't think I can say what would have been a satisfying ending for me, because I just can't get my head around the way they butchered the really interesting, subtle universe and story they'd created. My issues with it are bigger than the lack of closure for individual characters. I didn't want Kara to have been brought back to life in a mystical way by a divine power, but that's what happened, so what would have been an improvement on her disappearing the way she did? I can't think of a different way that would have been better within those parameters.
It was ridiculous to me that the survivors happily went their separate ways never to see one another again. Lee's speech about crossing oceans and climbing mountains just made me wonder how he was going to do it without any transport or equipment.
I hated that Chief's pronouncement to Helo that the cylons were blow-up dolls went completely unchallenged (if anything it was supported by the writers in the 150,000 years later epilogue). Then he murders Tory and somehow that's OK because there's no more society or rule of law and he can bugger off to sit in a tree because he's sick of people? Way to ruin another interesting character.
Why did Boomer deserve to die more than other characters who also did awful things, and for it to be OK for Athena to murder her while she was defenceless?
I didn't mind Laura's final scenes but I would have preferred her to die saving people in the infirmary and Bill just to be there for her last few seconds. I'd have found that more poignant.
So many other issues... I'll stop now before I run out of space in this comment!
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*headsmack* I remember now. Another character ending that seemed a bit weird but not too awful at the time, but looking back now feels completely ... uhm ...unwoven (I know that's not actually a word but it's late and I can't think of the right one!) into the story as a whole.
I don't think I can say what would have been a satisfying ending for me, because I just can't get my head around the way they butchered the really interesting, subtle universe and story they'd created. My issues with it are bigger than the lack of closure for individual characters. I didn't want Kara to have been brought back to life in a mystical way by a divine power, but that's what happened, so what would have been an improvement on her disappearing the way she did? I can't think of a different way that would have been better within those parameters.
It was ridiculous to me that the survivors happily went their separate ways never to see one another again. Lee's speech about crossing oceans and climbing mountains just made me wonder how he was going to do it without any transport or equipment.
I hated that Chief's pronouncement to Helo that the cylons were blow-up dolls went completely unchallenged (if anything it was supported by the writers in the 150,000 years later epilogue). Then he murders Tory and somehow that's OK because there's no more society or rule of law and he can bugger off to sit in a tree because he's sick of people? Way to ruin another interesting character.
Why did Boomer deserve to die more than other characters who also did awful things, and for it to be OK for Athena to murder her while she was defenceless?
I didn't mind Laura's final scenes but I would have preferred her to die saving people in the infirmary and Bill just to be there for her last few seconds. I'd have found that more poignant.
So many other issues... I'll stop now before I run out of space in this comment!