The haunting and mysterious end of Season 3 - Battlestar Gallactica

Finished Season 3 of the always entertaining "Battlestar Gallactica" and it actually ends with the resurrected (?) Starbuck flying in a Viper and pledging to lead the colonies to Earth - she says she's been there, and we close on an image of our familiar little planet. But it will take a whole season (4 is the final) to get the colonists there. Season 3 explores the guilt or innocence of a collaborator with the enemy (Baltar), who was compelled by force to work with the Cylons and, though we know he will do anything to save his skin, may have helped the humans by refusing the resist the occupation. Most interesting, the series continues to explore the idea of the difference between humans and machines that are programmed to be like humans, i.e., the Cylons - if they are in fact programmed to destroy the human race, can they also fall in love with humans, act against the interest of their own programming - in other words, do they have free will? And for that matter to humans have free will? Aren't we also programmed - socially, and genetically? The gripping conclusion of season 3 [ spoilers here ] has 4 of the key resistors among the colonists realize or seem to realize that they are Cylons and have always been. Is this possible? More likely, I think, is that the Cylons have found a way to infiltrate and affect their brains - perhaps through music (strikingly absent among the colonists) and perhaps art (scene in some visions). The scene in which the four come together in a remote corner of the ship and they seems suddenly to realize what drew them there - their terror and confusion ("Like a switch turning on," as one says) - is among the most haunting and affecting in the whole series.