Anyone catch the Battlestar Galactica finale? Fill me in!

[midnight armadillo]

Tivi cropped the last 3 minutes from Fri night...grr. Can anyone summarize?!?

[CatholicEdHead]

1. Check the next couple of pages for the long thread about it

but in a nutshell, they settle on New Caprica, have peace for about a year. Then the pulse from the nuke that Gina set off reaches the Cylon fleet a light year away. The fleet decends on New Caprica, there is barely a skelton crew on most of the fleet. The fleet jumps away, the Cylons invade, Baltar surrenders to the first Sharon and No 6. Then cut to Chief asking Starbuck what to next, it was "fight back as we always do" or something like that. The final scene is a long line of metallic Cylons marching down the middle of the tent city.

There is then a voiceover in the credits talking about the purpose of the Cylons.

Edit: Here is the thread from Friday Night
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x4870894

[LiviaOlivia]

2. From TWOP

Holy balls. Okay. The guys pinned down on Caprica fight for about two seconds, and then the Cylons call a cease-fire; the Resistance is brought back to Galactica. Dean Stockwell admits that he's a Cylon, and tells Adama and Roslin that DEMAND LOVE has pulled out of the occupation and would like to apologize, no harm done. The irony is not lost on Madame Airlock, who answers the "How Far Down" question by using Tigh, Tory, and Dualla to fix the election in her favor -- but only after scaring the shit out of Gaius with her recovered memories of his affair with Six. Tipped off by Gaeta, Adama persuades Roslin that it's a bad idea, and she relents; welcome to President Gaius Baltar, whose second order of business is to settle the planet, now named New Caprica. His first order of business is to visit Gina, who makes love with him, then nuclear-bombs herself, Cloud 9, a couple other ships, and the fourth wall. Even the docu-style cameras aren't safe when you're about to smash your show open on such a fundamental level. Kara basically fracks Anders in front of Lee and disses Dualla, and acts like an asshole. We jump forward a year. I'm not making any of this up; it's not a dream. Gaius is the President, the settlement proceeds apace, the Fleet's ships are running skeleton crews. Anders is sick, and Dualla and Lee are in no mood to share their hoarded meds. (Kara and Anders are married, Kara's got long hair; Lee and Dee are possibly married, she may be his XO on Pegasus, and he is fat and has stupid hair.) Laura has gone back to teaching on the settlement, but she and Maya (foster mother of Cybrid Hera -- now renamed Isis) have a hand in an anti-Baltar movement headed by Chief and the ever more sickening Cally, who is pregnant. Gina's last atomic middle finger reaches the Cylons, a light-year away, and that's the length of our reprieve: the Cylons show up with a quickness, so you can thank both Gaius and the assholes on the Pegasus for everything that comes next. As Galactica and Pegasus jump away, Six and Eight from "Downloaded" show up terrifyingly on Colonial One and explain their "new beginning": the Cylon can best express their true nature not through genocide and hate, but by making New Caprica into a concentration camp, "protecting" and "loving" the humans to death. Baltar offers humanity's surrender, and Sentinels Riefenstahl their way down Main Street, New Caprica. We lose. Suck on that 'til October.

http://www.televisionwithoutpity.com/story.cgi?show=145&story=8938&limit=&sort=