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Many fans were upset and disappointed with the mid-season finale of ‘Battlestar Galactica’. The episode left people wanting more – which in general is the purpose of a season finale episode. When have we ever been left not wanting more when the season has ended?

Though ‘Battlestar Galactica’s’ series finale won’t air for over a year, the script has been written for quite some time. Moore admitted that he had trouble crafting the final episode, stating, “I was getting caught up in the wrong plot in my head, and I was getting annoyed with myself, and with my writers, and life in general, and my children, and cats. I was in the shower and just sort of had this epiphany that I was concentrating on the wrong thing. It’s really not about the plot, it’s about the characters. I came back into the writers’ room the next day and wrote ‘It’s the characters, stupid’ up on the board.”

While Moore may have struggled with the script, the cast members admitted to being blown away by the final product. Aaron Douglas (Galen Tyrol) and Edward James Olmos (William Adama) both cried while reading it, and Number Six herself, Tricia Helfer, said she felt as if she’d been punched in the stomach. Mary McDonnell (Laura Roslin) also commented on the big send-off, telling E!Online, “I’m satisfied completely with the complete saga of Battlestar. I don’t even want to begin to talk about any of it, because I’m afraid I’ll let it slip. But I will tell you that I personally feel that now that I know the end of the story, it has an even deeper resonance as a complete saga than it had in weekly episodic installments.”