The final Cylon is … Admiral Adama: No one is more surprised than him, but if the "final one" is to unite and lead new-man kind, he's the best candidate. Kind of like Nixon in China :-)

Overall, this series feels like it's lurching to a very boring and confused end – the writers have nothing left to say. Where I had hoped to be waiting with baited-breath, I've been watching the original Star trek quite happily instead.

To expand, S1 was a fun ride, two and three explored a number of old-fashioned but powerful topics: the social tensions that arise when meritocracy reveals a genetically and culturally stratified talent pool; The means-ends debate in morality etc.

It also provided a nice history lesson about why complex intelligent societies support democracy, why the military and business do not,and the fact that, no matter what the system, the intelligence of the societies choices is limited by the intelligence of the people in the society. It also did good work on the conventions needed, both in democratic society and in the military, to sail the Scilla and Charybdis of military dictatorship and anarchy.

But four... I think they set out to use the rebel Cylons as a kind of redux of Judaism/Early christianity and the discovery of monotheism, but they seem to me to be botching it.