Battlestar Galactica: Daybreak part 2

Battlestar Galactica has never been an easy show with easy answers and though I wanted answers to many of the things in it I also feared that they would answer them.

Much of the difficulty in this episode came from the fact that they didn’t give us strait answers on some of the questions instead only coming close enough to open discussion.

In the end we do find out what Kara, head six and head Baltar are, but that doesn’t really tell us everything we expected it to, and we find out what happens to most of the characters but that doesn’t always mean that we are happy with that ending.

It’s difficult to know exactly what to think of this episode, except to say that like much of Battlestar Galactica it made me think. It encouraged me to examine ideas, sometimes comfortable, sometimes uncomfortable ideas and I can certainly understand why some people wouldn’t like that. Brushing up against difficult ideas is often uncomfortable.

On the other hand i do not personally think that the writers took the easy way out by not fulling answering everything. The easy way out would have been the fairytale ending that in some ways we all want. The idea that they found a beautiful world, created a city, Kara and Lee live together happily, the fresh air or something like it heals Rosyln and she can build the cabin with Adama, and Hera becomes the leader of this place.

I see no way that in the end the writers of Battlestar Galactica could have written a truly satisfying ending because the themes of their show are themes that we as a race have not yet solved and if they had the answers to all of the questions of battlestar galactica’s moral ambaguities and decided to wait four years to put them out so they would have a great end to a series that would seem a little wrong.