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If you're talking about the more recent, serious show, I understand where you're coming from, but I binged through the series a few years ago during the lockdowns and I feel like they were signposting the weird religious sort of ending the whole way.
Gaius and blondie being angels was weird as fuck, but the whole show had a pretty heavy religious undercurrent. Maybe I'm too used to time travel shenanigan stories, but the whole "it's all kind of a loop" concept didn't feel like an out of nowhere ass pull to me like it seemed to for a lot of people.
"...and they have a plan"
No they fucking don't.
I don't think the problem with the ending was that it wasn't signposted, more that it was an almost literal deus ex machina.
I had a problem with it, but not the ones that you’re highlighting. I was delighted by the religious stuff, and the angels in particular. Not because I’m religious myself - I’m not - but because it’s directly taken from the original series. I never thought they’d go there.
My problem with the finale - the last few episodes, in fact - are twofold, but both stemming from the same thing: the writers had the ending and weren’t afraid to contort things to fit.
The first isn’t a big deal, but why did they send the Galactica into the sun in order to live like cave people? Not for any reason that makes any kind of sense. They just needed the cast to be the ancestors of humanity, so they couldn’t have any technology.
But the second? They made people act completely out of character. Zarek is the worst offender. Throughout the series the whole thing of his character has been that he’s not evil, he’s just standing up for his people, even though that brings him into conflict with the people who are nominally our heroes. And then…he starts murdering everybody while twirling his moustache. He was completely unrecognisable as a character.
If you build your series on your character work, then you should make sure that you don’t then completely change their personalities for the sake of the plot.