Loved your assessment of the first part of the mini, however I disagree about the relationship between Lee and his father. I did not find it boring in the least. In fact, the evolution of this relationship over the four seasons was a big highlight for me. IMHO.

"my biggest issue with the way the series ended was that it somehow threw Battlestar Galactica into the past, instead of the future. Earth is a myth for these people, implying that we’re looking thousands of years into the future. The finale asks us to believe that somehow humans came to Earth, left it, and then came…