You know, your POV characters really do seem to have a LOT to do with whether you liked the finale or not. Helo lived. The man who was supposed to die in the first half of the miniseries and who didn't even have a name, went on to be one of the few survivors of the entire series. And while Kara went poof and Sam flew into the sun, they still established that they truly loved each other and they got a kind of closure. And thus I can live with the whole package without being too bitter about the things I didn't like.

I hadn't thought about the fact that any female child in an unbroken line from an Eight would have that mitochondrial DNA, not just Hera. Thank you for that.