Just watched the BSG finale last night - wow! 

 

It's hard to end a series with a mythology, especially if it's been on the air for too long (I'm talking about you X-Files).  When you take a story beyond it's logical arc, you either start completely contradicting yourself (completely ruining the show) or you do so many gymnastics to make everything line up that it gets really hard to follow.  Knowing that this was their last season certainly helped the BSG crew craft some really interesting sub-plots.  :-)   For the finale, I was glued to my seat and thought there was some great closure.

 

If you haven't seen it yet, I won't get into spoilers.  If you have, you may be interested in checking out the Discover article where they interview Ron Moore and the cast at the press screening of the finale earlier this week (warning - massive spoilers).  Looking through the comments was pretty interesting - definitely more of a mixed reaction than I was expecting, but some people just seem to look a little too deep (it is just a TV show after all  )

 

Speaking of Discover magazine - they also had a really interesting article on metamaterials that I thought was pretty facinating.  It's a little difficult to describe, so you'll have to read it - but it's an interesting commentary on some unexpected extrapolations of nano-scale engineering.

 

Enjoy!