OK, so you're all caught up. My thoughts: this is so gonna look like the original ending to the second season of SPACE BATTLESHIP YAMATO - everyone in the original cast, with the exception of a few, dies, but they complete their mission of finding a new home for the fleet. - Steven Perez from Bookmarklet

ALL the good sci-fi shows are, at their heart, soap operas. - Steven Perez from IM

How they do it will count more towards how well the conclusion wraps everything up. I'm just worried that Sci-Fi will try and start a franchise from this show a la B5-CRUSADE. - Steven Perez from IM

Well, from what I hear, last night's episode had action in spades. - Steven Perez from IM

Yeah, a prequel. I'm not so much of a completist that I need the past told, though. - Steven Perez from IM

I don't think that the writing has dropped off too badly. If anything, the long wait between seasons heightened expectations to an insane level. Hard to top, no matter what the writers do. Still, in for a penny, ... - Steven Perez from IM

Provided that they actually found earth. - Steven Perez from IM

They had to have landed on Earth--they even had flashbacks. - thepete

Wouldn't be the first time the writers yanked the rug out from under us. - Steven Perez

Haggis: I read your comments in your post. Reminds me of BABYLON 5 way back when, at the end of Season 4, with three episodes left, I felt there was no way they could properly end the series, especially hen you consider that they were facing down cancellation. Not only did JMS and Co. tie it all up in three eps, they did so in a way that felt like the show could have ended at Season 4 and no one would have been slighted. - Steven Perez

What I'm saying: stick with it. There's still a lot of story left and not a lot of episodes left. The ending probably won't be what you expected, but the show has been excellent from the get-go, and that's not something you can readily say about any show on TV now. - Steven Perez