Um, written a decent finale? Perhaps one that wasn't a steaming pile of dogshit? Honestly, that was like a trainwreck wrapped inside a clusterfuck topped with a healthy splash of "Fuck the audience."

Chris Roberson

I was amused that the respondents took the opportunity to dump yet again on the BSG finale before more or less addressing the question. That first paragraph above was a classic.

It was a satisfying read. Learned the Moore is a "Star Trek-trained" writer...oh goodie, like being a "Supercuts-trained hair stylist" or a "McDonald's trained sous chef". It's a little clearer why Moore didn't flinch at the ultimate writer's sin of committing deus ex machina and, in several quotes I read, sneered at science fiction's bourgois insistence on plot and consistency and plausibility.

It's so easy to get restarted bashing Moore and his travesty and go around in the same circles...my one original(?) thought after reading the essays: It wasn't even necessary to resort to God, not at the end, and nowhere in the series. The premise would have lent itself to a serious science fiction treatment and serious writing; nothing in the concept was so inherently flawed that it had to be patched over with GodSpackle® So let's be brutally honest: Moore just wasn't up to the job. His deus ex machina was the kind of copout that gives deus ex machina a bad name, and hardly the inspired rebellion against convention of a creative genius.

Thanks for letting me get that off my chest.