I agree that leaving it open-ended and ambiguous as they thought they did, just translated to lazy to me.
I feel the same way not just about this religious stuff but with the cylons. I really wonder what they originally conceived as an endgame for the show (if they did). In later seasons they seemed to be working pretty damn hard to get to a "we have to accept each other because we are all we have" kind of conclusion but I think they skipped a step in that whole acceptance thing, because they never even defined what made the cylons different really. I mean they focused a lot on certain things: they worship one God rather than multi; they can't procreate but they can resurrect. But then they didn't answer other things like how they can be both man and machine but not just flesh over metal, but Sharon can jack in to some computer in her veins and send a virus out, etc. etc.
Anyway, I really agree with a point that I read from someone yesterday or the day before somewhere (vague enough? Lol), that the mystical stuff was always intriguing, until they decided that Kara could come back but not be a cylon and that they didn't have to explain it. Because that opened the door to it being a show where anything at all could happen and totally changed the tone of things. And her "destiny" was so completely unsatisfying and not....grand, in any kind of way. Bah.
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I feel the same way not just about this religious stuff but with the cylons. I really wonder what they originally conceived as an endgame for the show (if they did). In later seasons they seemed to be working pretty damn hard to get to a "we have to accept each other because we are all we have" kind of conclusion but I think they skipped a step in that whole acceptance thing, because they never even defined what made the cylons different really. I mean they focused a lot on certain things: they worship one God rather than multi; they can't procreate but they can resurrect. But then they didn't answer other things like how they can be both man and machine but not just flesh over metal, but Sharon can jack in to some computer in her veins and send a virus out, etc. etc.
Anyway, I really agree with a point that I read from someone yesterday or the day before somewhere (vague enough? Lol), that the mystical stuff was always intriguing, until they decided that Kara could come back but not be a cylon and that they didn't have to explain it. Because that opened the door to it being a show where anything at all could happen and totally changed the tone of things. And her "destiny" was so completely unsatisfying and not....grand, in any kind of way. Bah.