Unquiet Desperation

SPOILERS AHEAD

If you wanted answers, prepare to get them, but they will be wholly unsatisfying.  The fact that the writers used “God did it.” as the wrap-up pissed me off so much that it colored the rest for the series. I was going to buy the series because it was so strong, but at the end, the writing staff TOTALLY blew it. Completely. Angels? Really?

And WTF was Head Baltar alluding to when he said of God, “He doesn’t like to be called that.” Was this supposed to be clever? And WHAT WAS STARBUCK??? It just pissed me off.

For a while, I was truly hoping they were going to make Anders, somehow, the architect of everything. I would have been perfectly satisfied with a geeky Time Loop, something that at least, in the terms of Science Fiction, made some sort of sense.

Instead, we have platitudes, moralizing, and no satisfying climax.

If one of my author friends had done this, I’d have completely jumped on them for it.  Maybe the Battlestar Galactica  writers were trying to make some sort of statement. If so, well…I feel totally let down.  It was disappointing, pointless, and gave NOTHING that was promised. It was a total cop out.

Update: I completely agree with this post. Totally and utterly.

Update #2: And Mur nails it as well. My god. This ending breaks every rule of good fiction.  AARGGGHH!