The finale is the worst 2 hours of TV I've ever seen. Absolutely dreadful.
I don't know how you can possibly think this.
Well, I don't watch much TV, so there wasn't a ton of stuff opposing it. But I'll give you a couple reasons.
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1. Deux Ex Machina, the God of poor story writers: "How can we wrap up all these loose ends?" "I know, let's just have God do it!" "Yeah, that makes sense!" "God creates another Earth! The other one was a
fake! How cool is that?" "God creates another race of humans for us to breed into! Freaking awesome!" "And how sweet would it be if we make like three characters
angels from God. That way we don't need to adequately explain the rationale or physically how each one did stuff! Because they're angels, so we don't need to have their stories make any coherent sense whatsoever!"
2. Irresponsible proselytizing: "You know what would be cool, and
totally responsible? If we just have this super-advanced race give up all their technology!" "Of course, because that means we can merge them into current humanity's story-line! Sweet!" "Because, really, all technology is super evil, right? I mean, living past 20 sucks. Literacy, medicine, science: sucks, sucks, sucks. Poetry, music, even television? Sucks, sucks, (and by the standards of this show)
definitely sucks." "Yeah, and then we'll have this cool ending where all the characters run obliviously into certain death by starvation, as Helo and Sharon prepare to hunt animals that they have no idea how to, and Baltar prepares to farm
when no crops have even been domesticated yet." "How do you think they'll survive the next ice age that's about to hit?" "They won't!"
3. Over-simplification of one of sci-fi's greatest shows: "So, we're going to do this coda 150,000 years later, where we reveal that head-six and head-Baltar are just super-cool angels from God! We're going to hit all the big points of this series; consumerism is bad, capitalism is bad, materialism is bad. But most of all, we're going to hammer in the biggest moral: Don't build robots! I mean, isn't that what this series has been all about since the beginning?
Don't build robots! There were never any much more deeper or complex themes that we can dump all over, because let's face it, sci-fi can never be intelligent, or non-clichéd."
Those were my three main points, but I could've put literally anything from this episode. It reeked of throwing story lines together at the last second, because endings to the arcs had never be conceived. The opera house story line, which had been in the plot since
the end of season frakking one, turned out to be: nothing. Absolutely nothing. This big plot point which had been built up and had been devoted many hours of screen time and my patience turned out to be Hera just running down a hallway. Lame.
Cavil committing suicide. Made no sense. He was a great villain, and they just threw him away.
The final five Cylons didn't affect anything because Tyrol kills Tory. I'll give them that, because I hated Tory.
Hera, who was built up way too much, doesn't affect anything. Not at all. I would've been happy if they'd just secured a peace with the Cylons by giving her away. Something, at least. And seriously, how many goddamn times was she kidnapped? They need a fucking amber alert system in the BSG universe.
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Anyway, I was just so sad at what BSG became in it's fourth season. A poorly written, horribly clichéd, stock sci-fi show, when it was before so much more. R.I.P. Season 1-3.