Edit: Less than a week after I posted this review the series shows up as an included show on Prime. The original review was just a complaint about the lack of streaming availability of this classic series.
I'm going to address only the finale, though, because that's where a serialized multi-season story arc's ability to stick the landing comes into play. This show annoyed many viewers at the time--the dumber ones, I like to think--by consistently and intelligently addressing themes of faith and personal identity. Westworld made the same mistake, although its ending was muddled in a way that BSG's never is. It was never a story about clear-headed atheists doing space atheism--that was Star Trek. This was always a show about people doing things because they believed them, or got stuck in a corner after manipulating other people into believing something. "Who are you when you have only your own lies?" is a question that this show dares to ask, and it also offers an answer, which is refreshing in an age where prestige television tries to take all possible philosophical positions (especially in areas relating to religion).
I'm going to address only the finale, though, because that's where a serialized multi-season story arc's ability to stick the landing comes into play. This show annoyed many viewers at the time--the dumber ones, I like to think--by consistently and intelligently addressing themes of faith and personal identity. Westworld made the same mistake, although its ending was muddled in a way that BSG's never is. It was never a story about clear-headed atheists doing space atheism--that was Star Trek. This was always a show about people doing things because they believed them, or got stuck in a corner after manipulating other people into believing something. "Who are you when you have only your own lies?" is a question that this show dares to ask, and it also offers an answer, which is refreshing in an age where prestige television tries to take all possible philosophical positions (especially in areas relating to religion).