Topic: 1x12 - Omega (Spoilers)
Sooooo ... the (series?) finale is here. I liked it a lot, but I wasn't blown away by it like I expected to be. Tim Minear is definitely my favorite non-Whedon writer (most of Angel's second season, Firefly's best episode "Out of Gas" among others, The Inside, and Drive) and I expected more. But then again all they had to go on were five really good episodes, so there was not much mythology to pay off.
I felt the finale kind-of fell apart in the end (after Alpha decided to run, which was strange decision to me - but then again, I never had 48 personalities in my head; is a simple majority enough for a decision or do they need a 2/3 vote?) and looking back not that much changed. The episode reminds me of Firefly's "Heart of Gold," which should have been the second-to-last episode, prior to the brilliant "Objects in Space." Just like "Heart of Gold," "Omega" combines a lot of what is great about the show, but is ultimately an unsatisfying experience.
Unfortunately FOX decided we don't need to see "Epitaph One," the Joss Whedon-scripted last episode taking place several years after the happenings of this season and we get to see it only on the DVD release. "Epitaph One" promises to be exactly in the vein of "Objects in Space" or Buffy's "Restless" - a philosophically tainted look at the show, its past and future, full of foreshadowing and true Joss awesomeness. And without it this finale just feels ... empty.
-- Colonel Tigh
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