I’d like to take this moment to apologize to my many atheist friend and to offer them comfort. I’d also like to apologize to and console my many cynical friends and those skeptical of mysticism.
BSG’s finale sucked for you guys.
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Okay, it kinda sucked for me, too. But at least I have already invested in a paradigm that accepts the unknown. I’ve already gotten accustomed to the whole ‘it’s God’s plan’ non-answer.
To drag us through the galaxies and raise about a thousand questions, only to non-answer at least a third of them with spectral mumbo jumbo is bad writing.
Yes, I cried through most of the last 40 minutes. But that thing at the very end with the two Slut Angels and the Dawn Of Earth Robots ended the show on the note of everything that has been wrong with it. The cold didactism, the We’ve Got Us A Peabody self-importance that sacrifices story and character for message.
Overall I’d call the last two hours ‘alright’ and just move on.
But boy do I feel for Chris Wage, Sarcastro and all the other nonGoddies watching.
Just Another Pretty Farce 
Not if you have figured out that the “God” they are referring to is Ronald D. Moore.
After all, they showed him reading the magazine right before one of the Slut Angels mentioned how he didn’t like being called “God”.
I hate it for the Christ-ies who found out that the Father, Son and Holy Ghost was Bill, Lee and Kara.
I found the episode superb. There’s one thing everyone’s forgetting…
Remember the story of Kobol? The 13 tribes had to leave their gods?
There are others in the Battlestar Galactica universe. The creators of humans–who created the cylons. If they are the ones directing events, then there is no mysticism needed beyond the Trek-like YAGLI (Yet Another God-Like Intelligence).
aaaannnnd…. cue reason #581 why I hate getting sucked into TV. I do NOT like being suckered into wasting years of my life on a show only to have it peter out or get canceled before it has a chance to tell the whole story. It’s like getting to the last page of a good book to discover that the author’s three year old son wrote the ending, and it made me so mad I finally gave up. Okay, I’ll admit (it’s not a big secret) that Erin and I are addicted to Lost-it’s my only TV vice, really. But if the Lost writer’s don’t end up the show on some SPECTACULAR level, there will be blood. And pitchforks. I would say I’d go over to the writer’s home and bash some heads in, but I think I’d have to wait in line.
Glad I didn’t waste five years on BSG. FEH.
” I’d also like to apologize to and console my many cynical friends and those skeptical of mysticism.”
Why? It seems to me, much like DS9, there is nothing “mystical” in the God of BSG.
Lines like:
“God is a force of nature. Morality is something we created that we attach to it.”
It seems to me, the whole “God” idea in BSG is much like what RDM did in DS9: God(s) is a product of nature, not removed from it, therefore “non-mystical” if “unknown.”
All in all I liked the final ep. I just wish there had been a better explanation of “WTH is Starbuck?”
“AND IT WAS ALL A DREAM!!!!”
*curtain*