<\/span> Sometimes I live in the country<\/span> (from the song Goodnight Irene, by Lead Belly)<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n <\/p><\/div>\n Oh dear.<\/p>\n They blew it last night. The revelation of the final cylon was far from \u201ca great notion\u201d and seemed to me to be quite, thoroughly and stunningly lame. I was staring at the television in those last three minutes that the show ran long and said aloud, \u201cHow dare they?\u201d<\/p>\n No, but really. What a disappointment. I have read a hundred fan theories in the last year or so, many of which would have been much more clever than the way the show went. You know you are in trouble when the fans are thinking about the show more than the creators. I am particularly disgusted at all the marketing hype and suspense that the show and its creators went through to set up the revelation. It was not worth it. <\/p>\n Still, in deference to those who don\u2019t want to spoil the (lame, not worth it, hugely disappointing) surprise of the identity of the final cylon, I am not writing the name in the substance of this post. However, the comment thread is open to be a full discussion of this, so if you don\u2019t want to know the (stupid, absurd, not worth the build up) identity of the final cylon, then don\u2019t click on the comments.<\/p>\n Now I get why Katee Sackhoff and even Ron Moore, said in recent interviews that the point of the show was not the revelation of the final cylon and the various mysteries of the mythology. They were saying that to lower expectations and try to cover for the lameness of the actual revelation. I can\u2019t imagine what happened to the writers, except that they must have just dug themselves in so many holes with other characters that they didn\u2019t have anybody left to turn into the Final cylon. <\/p>\n The solution the show went for, however, does nail the coffin on the idea that reincarnation makes a person in any sense a grown up. Nuff said.<\/p>\n
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Sometimes I live in the town<\/span>
Sometimes I get a great notion<\/span><\/span>
To jump into the river an\u2019 drown<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n