Self-destroying the crew, to prevent humanity developing again, in the aim that would "end the cycle" and yet it obviously plays out once more, and it's all about God.. the most ludicrous, pointless adventure of sci-fi war into religion. Trashes the entire series. Also everyone's an alcoholic.
shareI believe Daniel Greystone to be the "he" they are referring to and therefore there is no god involved. Simply a guy attempting to improve his simulation.
shareDaniel Greystone brought Kara back from the dead?
shareExactly.
If you go with this simulation interpretation you can speculate that the particular "run through" we watch as the show had come closer to fruition than previous attempts.
Rather than going for a full reset straight away, he chucked Kara and her ship (serial number / markings 100% authentic but brand new) back in to the simulation to help edge them forward.
Yeah, there were two things I always hated about this series. The biggest of which was the ending. It defeats everything about the Colonials' Odyssey-like journey to find a safe haven. They end up not merely losing, but actively throwing away the human civilization that they had been fighting the whole time to save, and condemning untold hundreds of generations of their descendants to Hobbes' "state of nature" where life is "nasty, brutish, and short." They also ensured that the whole thing could very easily happen all over again, because their remote descendants, after the long, hard climb back up to civilization, would not have had the lessons of history passed down to them, and would therefore be completely ignorant of the dangers.
The second thing which I hated nearly as much was making Saul and Ellen Tigh, Anders, Tyrol, and Tory Foster the "final five," and therefore the creators of the other seven versions of the humanoid Cylons. To create an artificial lifeform that is not only an almost exact copy of a human, but which is also in some respects physically improved, would require them not only to be highly educated scientists, but also some of the greatest geniuses ever produced by the human race. Yet throughout the series, we see no indication whatever that any of the five had either the scientific education, nor even the base intelligence this would have required. The only reason I can see for Ron Moore going that way to hit the audience with a gotcha. "Bet you never saw that coming." No, I never saw that coming because it's stupid, and it totally throws plausibility and suspension of disbelief out the window.
100%... i have not rewatched it in years because these things really annoyed me.
shareI guess the writers knew the series was on the ropes but needed episodes so they cooked up a few escape plans. You can tell when Adama agrees to Cylon technology installed in the hull of the Galactica. But instead of introducing fresh ideas they expand on the existing paradigm, more Boomers, to hopefully drag it into a longer drama. Hey wasn't this whole thing supposed to be about being AGAINST artificial replication??
What makes me mad most about that was when Saul was revealed to be an sleeper. That was the stupidest decision. The rest I don't care, but Saul was so anti-Cylon, why him? And Tyrol too. Even Adama would have been a more imaginative choice. You could have had Battlestar Galacticas against Battlestar Galacticas, one clear philosophy against another, instead there was this atrocious soup of mess.
And yeah that self-destruction of the fleet in the end, no more cities, living as solitary genetic dead-ends.. doesn't make sense as most would rebel and set up their own town. And that stupid religious twist with Starbuck. Not to say religion is stupid, but to spend 99% of your series as strict sci-fi then throw in God at the end - just so stupid. AAAhhh!! I wanna drink a beer with you so we can hate this crap together.