Warning: Contains spoilers of the season finale.

What? Nooooo! No, no, no! This is cruel and unusual punishment! Making us wait till next year to see where things go after last night's mind-blowing episode? As if all those crappy original movies they foist off on us weren't proof enough, now we know for sure that the Sci Fi Channel hates us. Hates us.

I kinda knew it, that if the last surviving colonists didn't actually find Earth at the end of this season that we'd at least get some sort of confirmation that their quest wasn't a mythological wild goose chase, and that seems to be what we got. I thought my head would explode when that final zoom away from the latest battle with the Cylons, through the nebulae and then through empty deep space, took us right to what is clearly planet Earth. Isn't that a bizarre reaction on my part? It's not like the show hasn't been assuring us all along that this was the goal, to get to Earth, and yet somehow this moment seemed to take the story out of the realm of fantasy and place it in the "real world." Our real world. I'm super excited ... and now I have to wait till January. January! Argh!

Of course, it's remotely possible that that moment was meant to be from Starbuck's perspective, that it was sort of a fantasy on her part. That's right: Starbuck is back -- I told you she was a Cylon -- and she tells Apollo she's been to Earth. Again, I ask you: What the frak?

Okay, it's true that we don't know for sure that Starbuck is a Cylon, but consider this: The four we did learn are Cylons for certain seem to have an affinity for toasters. The Chief was into Sharon, who turned out to be a Cylon. Sam and the president's aide are into each other, and they both are secretly toasters. So maybe that's why Sam was into Starbuck? (And what might that say about Tighe's wife?) I'm tellin' ya: Starbuck is the last Cylon.

Unless it's the president.

This whole season finale was mind-blowing, though, not just the Cylon and Earth stuff. Lee's passionate speech on the stand at Gaius's trial about the politics of the collapse of civilization was some of the best writing -- and best acting -- I've seen on TV in quite a while. The brilliance of it is that it managed to be completely relevant to what's going on in the real world today without being even a close parallel in the details. The ideas at play about honor and justice and how we lie to ourselves were universal and timeless.

But now Gaius's acquittal makes him a target for all the collective pain and anguish and self-denial that Lee was talking about -- does anyone seriously believe he can possibly survive to see Earth? And I fear that Lee has painted a target on himself, too; people don't always like a truth teller, particularly not when the truth he's telling is this ugly.

January can't get here fast enough.

Ooo, ooo, fangirl meltdown: I met Jamie Bamber -- aka Lee Adama -- this past weekend at I-Con, the big SF convention on Long Island. He spoke to me and a couple other entertainment journalists in a roundtable conference, and you'll love what he had to say about how he and Lee are alike, how Lee's contentious relationship with his father impacts his real-life relationship with costar Edward James Olmos, his reaction to the discovery of who's secretly been Cylons all along, and more. Look for more on that conversation here later in the week.

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