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Plus, it'll also piss-off the militant atheists across the board, not just in SF.
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Hah, yeah. A rabid atheist on another board got pretty huffy a couple weeks ago when I said that the head characters were angels. He expected them to be be aliens or something. Neverminding all the talk of God and angels, did he really expect them to turn out to be aliens after all that? This isn't TNG, where the Devil turns out to be an alien with a holographic device and a cloaked ship. Don't know why he expected that to turn out that way, especially given that the whole religious angle has been layered on thick since pretty much the beginning, whereas there's been NO hint about aliens whatsoever.
And really, getting mad over that is silly. So there's a religious angle. So what? Must everything be antiseptic atheism like Star Trek? Is something different from the sci-fi norm really so bad? Nevermind that it's silly to take offense over that. That'd be like my taking offense over the existence of Thor as a character in the Marvel Universe, even though I'm Catholic. OH NO! A pagan god running about? How dare they! ...And yet, Thor is one of my favorite titles. Amazing the things some people get offended about.
But yes, I was very happy with the finale. The angels were angels, "the hand of God", as it were, in the form of Racetrack's dead hand (Poor Racetrack
) finishes off the evil Cylons once and for all (God knows that Cavill would've NEVER stuck to the agreement. Once he had resurrection he would've started hunting them, again), Kara's an angel, too, and the Colonials have found a new home. Altogether pretty satisfying. Even though it blew a whole in my theory about the show being set in the far future.
BTW, Anyone else sad about Racetrack's final fate? Poor, poor Racetrack. What a way to go out. At least she got her wish, though. She ended up filling Hell to the brim with the souls of pretty much every last enemy Cylon in the universe, even if she did do it post-mortem.
As for the end scenes with the robots, I thought that one scene with a bunch of those white robots was hilarious. "The March of the Cylons". Heh.
