Reply #18: I still think it was a cheap writer's trick.

[Jokerman]

Had they let me know in the early episodes that some sort of "unseen entity" was controlling the story line I may or may not have quit watching, but I wouldn't have been so disappointed with the ending. Yes, many of the characters were religious but that's true of numerous stories that don't pull "god did it" out of nowhere in the end.

It would be like ending the "Soprano's" by having an assassin's bullet about to strike Tony's head when the angel of Big Pussy appears and stops it in mid air. I wasn't particularly thrilled with the way the Soprano's ended but it seemed to me to at least be true to the style of previous episodes. Galactica's ending made the previous plot lines irrelevant.

To me, the angels create more story holes than they fill. If their "god" had the ability to direct the story why did it allow billions to be slaughtered in the colonies? Was it because the "one true god" of the cylons was punishing the humans for worshiping other deities? Why did it lead them to a destroyed "earth" before sending them to our current planet? If these people's journey was predestined by a higher power, NOTHING we watched them do over the past four years mattered.

This is just a rant because I still feel cheated. I don't really expect answers to any of these questions but I know that I'll take a pass on anything else that has Ronald Moore's name attached.

Thanks for the response.