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Poetic Ring (Series As the Opening and Closing of A Circle)

There is a poetic ring to events of the series:

• It begins with the Cylon attack on Colonies nearly wiping out mankind. It ends with the Colonial attack on the Cylon Colony very likely wiping out the Cylons who didn't join with the humans.

• Shortly after the Cylon attack on Caprica, Gaius Baltar -- having unintentionally brought about the near-annihilation of the human species -- flees Caprica when Karl Agathon gives him his place on a Raptor, feeling that his own life is less important to save than a famed scientist's. But at the end of the series, it is Baltar who puts his own life at risk for the sake of saving Agathon's daughter Hera Agathon, considering it more important thatn his. Baltar expresses concern for Hera's future well being to the very end of the series (both ends of this parallel occur in wide open fields).

• Agathon and Cylon Sharon Valerii are seen together near the very beginning of the series and near the very end.

• The earliest known detail we learn of Gaius Baltar's life is his effort to break away from his family history as farmers, and his shame over this heritage. The last event we see in his embrace of a new beginning as a farmer.

• Baltar and Caprica Six are seen together close to the very beginning of the series and close to the very end.

• The earliest event we learn from Laura Roslin's life (retroactively) is the death of her sisters, killed during transit. The last event of her life that we see is her own death, which occurs during transit.

• The series began with Battlestar Galactica's scheduled decommissioning and ends with her being scuttled in space.

• The series begins with a selfish decision Baltar makes (to give Caprica Six access to military mainframes) that nearly destroys Colonial humanity. It ends with a selfless decision Baltar makes (to fulfill his destiny to save Hera) that gives Colonial humanity a new start in the form of Hera.

• At the beginning of the series, William Adama divorces his wife soon after returning to Colonial military service. At the end of the series, Adama abandons all trappings of the military to be with his unofficial wife Laura Roslin, upon whose finger he puts his wedding ring after she dies.

• This poetic ring is also in line with Romo Lampkin's observation of him being President of it being "Poetic justice" and Lee Adama's "What goes around, comes around" since Lampkin originally pushed him to become a politician. Indeed, the Cylons were revisited by the destruction they wrought on the human Colonies.