Battlestar Galactica Countdown

So there are now three hours left (?). Next week's episode and from what I understand is a two hour series finale. Tonight's episode seems to the the first heading towards the series Dénouement. There was so much to see and absorb I am blogging this on my second go round with Islanded in a Sea of Stars. The Galactica is dying. Roslin is dying. So many others have died or are on their way both human and Cylon. It is heartbreakingly beautiful to watch. The writing, directing, and acting are superb.
I think what the series is trying to say at this point is that we are all people in our own way. Whether we were born human, machine, or reborn in some other mysterious way as is the case with Starbuck, Kara Thrace. Apollo, Lee Adama, who started as a reluctant Viper pilot at the decomissioning ceremony during the mini-series and is now the de facto President of the Colonies, put it best when he said to Kara that all that matters is being. Right here, right now. They are safe, they are together and that is all that matters.
It is so difficult to let go of the things that we love, yet we all must cross that road many times in our lives. If we resist the change as Admiral Adama did for so long, and as so many others have througout the series, we die the same death Galactica is dying right now. If we try to be something we are not, as Galactica has tried to do we also die. What matters is the people we care about in the here and now.
Right now it seems both the Cylons and Humans are placing all of their hopes in Hera. Hera, the cylon/human hybrid. Why does it take one small child to bring together beings who have so much in common and could learn so much from each other? What is Cavill's motive for capturing the child? Why does Ellen Tigh believe she is the only answer for ending the cycle of violence between man and machine?
What is Kara? Is she and angel, prohpet, demon? Or is she something else entirely. Is she the future of the races? Is she the past of the races? Does she represent the anger and hatred that has spanned the millenia and spawned the death and doom so many times before?
Where do they go from here. War and destruction or redemption?
We have three hours left to find out.