sorry, what?

The "angels" appeared as visions to certain characters. Resurrected Starbuck was actually not an "angel." At least not like Head Six, Head Baltar or Starbuck's visions of her dad and Leoben. Some characters may have called her an "angel" but she wasn't like the others. RDM has said as much in a recent interview with TV Guide:

TVGuide.com: What exactly is Kara at the end of the series? An angel?
Moore: I think Kara remains an ambiguous figure. Kara lived a mortal life, died and was resurrected to get them to their final destiny. Clearly she was a key player in the events that led to [the fleet's] finding a home. And, I don't know if there's any more to it beyond that. I think you could call her an angel, you could call her a demon, the second coming or the first coming, I guess, chronologically speaking. You can say that she had a certain messiah-like quality, in the classic resurrection story. There's a lot of different ways you can look at it, but the more we talked about it, the more we realized there was more in the ambiguity and mystery of it than there was in trying to give it more definition in the end.

TVGuide.com: So she is completely different than the hallucination/visions of Baltar and Six?
Moore: Yes, Kara was physically among us. Everybody saw her. She was tactile, she flew a viper, she was around. She was with us. And yet, there was a body that died on the original Earth, and Baltar did the DNA analysis and it was her body, so she was literally brought back from the dead by something — by some higher power or other power, and she came back to serve a function.

Here is the full interview: http://www.tvguide.com/News/Battlestar-Galacticas…

She was truly a human brought back, in some way, from the dead.

"I cringed at the implications of the technologically advanced white race landing in Africa and intermingling with a pre-verbal society."

Actually, as Hera's destiny is revealed to be that of her being the Mitochondrial Eve, all current humans trace their Mitochondrial DNA back to her. She is essentially the "mother" of humanity here on Earth. Who she "intermingled" with isn't revealed. So we don't know who the Y-chromosomal Adam was. (And does it really matter?)

Technically, Y-chromosomal Adam may have had nothing to do with the humans that were already on Earth. But I would guess that it was because what would've been the point of showing the aboriginal humans and pointing out that they were capable of "intermingling" with the Colonial humans, and presumably Cylons?

But the point was that it was Hera that was the common "mother" of humanity here on our Earth. And she was a half-human/half-Cylon (non-white) child. If you want to get technical.

No. I'd rather see tight storytelling. Starbuck entering the picture with Six and Baltar 150,000 years later, not even necessarily interacting with them, may have solidified her angelic nature and given her some closure. Pop her in the background interacting with humans – we'd know she was there doing angelic work and her stint with the Galactica would have been more believable because we see that this was just one of probably many missions. The writers have consistently missed small things like that this season, things that could have made all the difference and made me feel like they care.

I didn't have a problem with that. After everything these last remaining human beings have been through, I think they'd be perfectly happy to just sit in one place for 5 minutes in a truly green place and not have to run anymore. Also, I don't think they abandoned all their technology. After all, Tyrol was going to Iceland/Greenland/Antarctica after having scanned the planet for it, and I doubt he was going to walk. Somehow, they're dividing up land and traveling around….they're using technology to do it. They got rid of their big ships, that doesn't mean they got rid of their technology or knowing how to recreate it on their planet. They didn't just suddenly get stupid. I saw the ships going into the sun as a final stamp on the fact that they are home and here to stay. They don't need their spaceships anymore, because they're no longer on the run. They've found their place. I liked that.

"In a mythos which has consistently pushed man and machine and the non-existence of life other than man and machine, it’s kinda hard to accept angels."

Head Six has been calling herself an angel and an instrument of God for much of the show. She's been talking about God since the first episode. Just because you didn't believe her doesn't mean it hasn't been set up. The mythos of this world has prophecies that come true. Why are angels so hard to accept?

"I cringed at the implications of the technologically advanced white race landing in Africa and intermingling with a pre-verbal society."

I cringed at this, too. Mostly because they ASSUMED they were pre-verbal. I was like "Um, have you actually tried to TALK to them? And do you assume they speak ENGLISH?"

"If so, why wasn’t Starbuck with them? She was an angel. You guys said so."

She was only an angel after she left the fleet. And Head Six and Head Baltar clearly had an established relationship throughout. Just because Starbuck's also an angel doesn't mean she's going to pal around with them. All angels don't necessarily know each other! If they HAD included her with them at the end, I would've been suspicious of that. She was clearly on her own path and had her own mission. Would you rather have seen an angel assignment scene, where all the angels are sitting around in uniforms getting their jobs for the day?

"Is it just me, or was Apollo way too mellow about that?"

He was mellow about it, because it was a part of their world, and now – after all the prophecies have come true – he wasn't surprised by it anymore. He knew Kara was SOMETHING, and now this clinched it. He was finally able to let go of her. After all the bullshit in their relationship, he was finally able to accept that, not only could he not have her, but he was never supposed to. His acceptance of all that made sense to me after all he's been through. It was a really Zen moment I appreciated.

"And another thing! Isn’t anyone worried about Hera being non-verbal?"

I am. I've been joking about that for the entire season.

And I actually thought the last bit with the robots was great. I really did. A nice injection of humor into a show that took itself very seriously. It was the entire series finally letting off steam, and I had no problem with it.

I'm no closer to figuring them out when I started the show, really.

“You’ll be remembered. I shall wrangle this planet’s coffee and name it for you.”

ROFL!!!!! XD

I also don't buy, after this long battle to finally integrate with Cylons–themselves advanced machines–that technology is the reason there were problems. The reason there were problems was that people behaved irresponsibly and immorally with regards to individual, conscious beings. If humanity hadn't enslaved their technology that could think, none of this would happen. The moral SHOULD have been about that. But no–despite the grievous insult to the Cylons implied by Apollo's loathing of technology–it's all about how computers kill. I'm reminded of a saying: Guns don't kill; people do. I think that's true whether you're shooting bullets or genocidal robots.

And I am relieved that I wasn't the only one who groaned aloud at the Angels going "He doesn't like to be called God" after staring over Ron Moore's shoulder in that coda. Yes, RDM, we know you like to THINK you're God. Leave it at home, please.

This is totally my Facebook tag line for the day! We were making this joke all weekend.