I'm utterly conflicted, the ending was both utterly stupid on about every level and yet strangely satisying. The show had run its course though and really fell off for me with the whole 'final five', so how on earth they pulled it out of a but of a tailspin and nailed a landing I don't know.
Never mind 100% consensus to abandon medicines and technology, the part i found craziest is that by landing on earth (seemingly next to early homo-sapiens) and indicating they'd breed with the natives it kind of made the whole magic mongrel baby angle utterly irrelevant. Unless the crew weren't homo-sapien after all and she was Mitochondrial Eve (the first human). That would again make no apparent sense to me either.
Also strange to even reference Eve, as anyone with any knowledge of DNA and human history would know that there can't possibly have been caucasians and oriental ethnicities in Africa. So why go out of your way to reference something obscure that makes your ending incontrovertibly wrong? It's one step away from Bobby Ewing waking up in the shower to be honest.
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Reply by VobIdem
on June 22, 2021 at 9:55 AM
I believe the showrunner admitted in an interview there was no masterplan the writers were following, and the ending only came to him late while taking a shower.
BSG with its many mysteries could've really benefitted from a Babylon 5 type of writing approach instead of making it up as they went along.
As for the ending, I found it satisfying up to a point. It could've been so much worse, but also so much better after 4 seasons of meandering of varying quality