TaoSan, I completely agree with you. I thought the last 2 or 3 episodes before the finale really sucked. I wanted to like them, but it seemed like so many of the scenes just left me saying “What was the point of that?”
I loved the finale. I felt like the writing really really improved compared to most of the other episodes in this season, whatever stupid number they came up with to call it (4.5?), I can never keep those straight.
But I was pretty disappointed that they never directly addressed some of my burning questions, for example how they made Starbuck just disappear, and I guess the suggestion was that she really was an “angel” like Baltar said, but I thought that was such a huge copout, and it made me feel like they had never actually what the whole finding-her-body thing was all about when they wrote it, they were just like, hmm, this would be cool…
Did you guys watch “The Last Fracking Special”? I thought that was fairly entertaining, and I’d be interested to hear people’s thoughts on it as well.