Yeah. That's where the plot and the characters essentially diverged. Because Ron Moore and/or David Eick felt that they owed it to the fans to plan something out in advance (they wouldn't pull too much completely out of their ass) but they had no idea how to create a plot that built up to the ending idea. The end result is that the final thoughts of the characters were at odds with every lesson they had learned on the journey.Morgaine wrote: No, the part that ruined BSG was the insipid and completely out of character luddite fly our ships into the sun return to the bronze age ending that came out of nowhere, with Lee Adama suddenly and for no reason proclaiming that Colonial technology, history and culture is unecessary and they must "give themselves" to the natives of Earth (and given the whole mitochondrial eve scenario they came up with and given how human tribes behaved in actual history towards rival tribes, that has.... unfortunate implications).
Because of course the best way to never repeat your mistakes is to forget them.
The Colonial fleet and every character within was established as independent and divisive. They would argue and rebel over the most petty of things and yet all of them from the military to the medical staff to the goddamn mobsters would all universally agree to eschew what little comforts and technology they have because Lee has a religious epiphany? Give me a break!.
That's one of many little issues with the finale, of course, which had several other problems. The main issue is that they left way too many plot threads dangling: Baltar and the opera house, Tori, Starbuck, Hera. It was too much to wrap up in one story and really needed a multi-episode arc like DS9 had to get all of those points resolved.
But the reason everyone hates the BSG finale is largely because the series itself is so fantastically good, and feels very seamless in terms of plot and character development, up until you run over the cliff at the end.
