Fell,
I love Scifi (Sci Fi as in the overcommercialized and under critical network), but TV has never produced very much in the way of Sci Fi. Hollywood thinks that Sci Fantasy, like Trek with the mythical particle for every occasion. Again I like Sci Fantasy, but you can only take so much of the same thing. Now, Galatica was grittier than some, and the acting was superb. But they made their share of errors. They did fall prey to many of the same mistakes I cited.
The big question, What is Kara Thrace, was never answered. The whole issue of biological or machine on the android Cylons, they contradicted themselves from one episode to the next.
Somehow, while ships need to make short extra-spacial "jumps" to get from one sector to the next, the core dump of a Cylon can get to the resurrection ship without a jump engine. Noone can get things perfect, I wouldn't expect them to. But they really did a submachine gun to fire the magic bullets, much like Bab5 and Star Trek did.
It was a good series, however.