The Working File

In a post written just before BSG resumed, Jonathan Last at Galley Slaves managed to list what I think is a good list of 4 questions that the show needs to answer in its last episodes:

1 Where do the humans go?

2 What was the original Cylon plan?

3 Is there a reconciling between human and Cylon cultures?

4 Whose theistic views are correct? The pagan humans or the monotheistic Cylons?

I’ve always thought that if Ron Moore et al could answer those questions is a satisfying way, then the series would have an enormously successful conclusion. Instead, we seem to have reached a place where series turns on a twist reveal, like an M. Knight Shyamalamalaman movie. Narratively speaking, I think that’s dangerous ground on which to make your final stand.

In a later post, he cuts it to two questions, without really explaining why, while also showing more disillusionment.  I’m withholding judgment still, but I’m worried, too.