by Alyx Grayson

Created on: March 17, 2009   Last Updated: March 18, 2009

The first hour of a three hour finale is a hard one to critique, particularly when you are as yet unaware of what will happen in the two hour grand finale that will not only end the season, but the series. A great deal of expectation is crammed into these final hours from No Exit to Deadlock to Someone To Watch Over Me. Many questions have been answered and many fates have been resolved.

*D'Anna remains on Earth, the last woman on the devastated planet of the 13th Colony. A strange, yet whimpering end for the powerful model that defied programming and logic to seek the Final Five and ended up boxed for so long. Unique now, amongst her own kind, she is the only version of her model to survive, but chose to get off the cosmic merry go round.

*Dualla ended her life after a perfect evening with Lee. She too chose to get off the cosmic merry go round, but rather than exile herself to a planet or consign herself to some corner of defeat, she chose the way to end her existence on a moment of perfect bliss for herself, making her death all that more painful and hard to comprehend.

*Felix Gaeta chose to pursue what he believed in, human purity over blending with the Cylons and led the military wing of the mutiny against Adama and Tigh. It's sad to remember that Gaeta only entered the military to pay for college and that he actually planned for something much different once upon a time. He died in an airlock in front of a firing squad.

*Tom Zarek, the terrorist, who survived death at the hands of Cylons by pure dumb luck. He won his freedom, followers and eventually a place on the Quorum of Twelve, but Tom wasn't happy without someone to rebel against. He stood against Roslin, Baltar and even Lee. With Gaeta by his side, he led the political wing of the mutiny in the Fleet and ordered the executions of the Quorum of Twelve. He died in an airlock in front of a firing squad.

*Samuel Anders endured a bullet to the head during the mutiny. It unlocked all of his memories, but seizures and swelling and selfishness sent him into surgery from which he didn't seem like he would recover. Now he lives in a half state, more hybrid than man and communicating in riddles and rambling statements.

*Kara Thrace died more than a year ago, during the Maelstrom when her ship was destroyed or transported through a wormhole. It really doesn't matter how her body ended up on Earth. But that Kara died and in her place is a new Kara, a whole Kara and one who serves a purpose whether it's finding

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