Quote Originally Posted by Miriel View Post
Ok, here's what really annoys me.

I know the entire theme of the show has been, "All this has happened before, and will happen again." But I always assumed that the story we were watching would be the one in which the cycle was broken. But for the characters, for the fleet and Battlestar Galactica to go through ALL THAT just so they could abandon everything that they knew and start the cycle all over again. My god, that's just wretched.

One of the first things I thought after watching the finale was, "maybe Dee had the right idea afterall =/" Their entire struggle was pretty useless in the end. Instead of, I dunno, honoring their history and their past and everything they had learned through their recent struggles, they decide to completely throw it all away. Clean slate bull. Why not work together to build a new civilization? One in which the trauma of the cylon/human war is remembered so that history doesn't repeat itself. But oh wait, if they had done that then that wouldn't have fit in nicely with the whole, "they're our ancestors" idea.
Explain how trying to build a new civilization with the same technology and ideals would have ended the cycle? It was done twice after Kobul (three times if you want to count New Caprica), and every time, civilization destroyed itself. I can see what you're getting at, but the history of the people in the show has proven that picking up where you left off on a new planet doesn't change anything, and there's no reason to believe it should. A fresh start isn't really a fresh start if the only thing that changes is your location. Given that the Cylons seemed pretty convinced they'd eventually die off there would be no reason for anything to change in the scenario you claim you'd prefer.

Instead of coming to our Earth and claiming the planet as theirs and doing whatever they wanted all willy nilly, they instead chose to actually start over, and to try and integrate with the indigenous people to build a better society from scratch. Obviously time, evolution and our short memories would have other ideas though.

How much more badass would it have been if they had built a new civilization, one that took humanity and technology further than it had ever gone before? Having survived the cylon/human war and found a way not just to coexist, but to love one another, they had the potential to take civilization to whole new heights. Instead they're in Africa. Hunting animals with pointy sticks.
Who are we to judge what progress is? We like to think that we're so advanced and developed because of our technology, but we're still a planet full of assholes. And if the rest of the cylons die off in a generation without procreating, then there is no loving, accepting civilization you speak of. It's simply a recipe for everything to happen all over again. Take the technology out of the mix for a while and they at least buy themselves a reprieve from their own self-destructive tendencies jeopardizing the entire human race and a chance to find something better.

IF they really had to do the flash forward to our present time thing, then I wish they had done it differently. The whole tone of the last 3 minutes was off. Like they completely switched gears and it was like watching a different show. BSG has always been on the darker side, so why bring in all that cheese all of sudden? They could have played it so much more true to the series. Like if they fast forward to the the future and we see a war in which "humans" are fighting robots, without realizing that humans themselves are robots. Something other than the *wink wink* dur hur hur, look ma! It's our New York!
This comment bothers me the most. I suppose anyone can interpret the show however they want, but for me, it's always been a show about hope. Yes it's a dark show a lot of the time. I don't think you can portray the near extinction of humanity and the struggle to find a new home as a cheery love fest. But it was always a show based on hope. The hope that they could find a new home, make a fresh start, and in the last season especially, find a way to co-exist with the Cylons without both sides killing each other.

The ending fit to me. It was a rather fitting message given everything that's happened in the show over the last 4-5 years that we still have a chance to get past our need to destroy each other and maybe stand some chance of living together and treating each other as human beings for a change. Whether you liked it or not, the message was completely in keeping with one of the major themes I felt the show has been conveying for years.

That's just my view of it. Not saying you have to like it, just arguing the other side.