Also Re: BSG finale

So, way back in the series, they risked life, limb, and redshirts to go to the temple of Tomb of Athena on Kobol. Remember, they had to get the arrow of Apollo and stick it in the Sagitaron's hand? So they get to the temple and BWAM! They're on Earth.

Earth I, the nuked one, presumably, because they look up and there are the constellations-- they recognize them from the colonies' flags. Something about the people on Earth could look up at the sky and see their twelve brothers. Cool.

So... how in the FUCK can Earth 2 (our Earth, the one with Africa that was showed in the finale) have the same exact constellations visible? That's terrible, terrible writing, and no, I'm not swallowing a "DIVINE PLAN ALL ALONG" bandaid to cover up what is certainly just bad writing and poor planning.

I've listened to a LOT of RDM's commentaries, and often he says things like "I wrote that and had no idea what it meant... it was cool, and we'll figure it out later." Seems they hoped the emotion of the finale would blind us all to the MAJOR FUCKING PLOT HOLES.

Seriously, I'm almost ready for a major fan re-write of the ending, especially as many fan theories make way, way more sense than what the writers came up with. Make Kara half cylon (a child of a renegade Daniel copy) or a mutated copy of Daniel. That solves how she knew Watchtower. It solves her resurrection (apparently the show would have us believe that she was a different kind of 'angel' than Head!Six & Head!Baltar... and apparently even as an angel you can have angelic daddy hallucinations? WHAT?) It wouldn't solve how Kara flying a suicide mission into a gas giant in a plane with no FTL somehow landed her on Earth, but... whatever.

(And before you ask, YES, I have read interview XYZ. It doesn't matter. If it didn't happen on the show, it's not canonical, and therefore RDM's explanations don't really solve anything for the fan who just watched the show. And anyways, his responses still came off as trying to cover up that he didn't fucking really know, either.)

Introduce time travel. When Kara took the Galactica on its last jump, she took it to Earth I way in the past. That way when Future!Galactica tests the bones, of course they're cylon by their standards-- because we're all descendants of Helo & Sharon. And that tidily fixes how the constellations are the same.

I'm just... really feeling cheated by the lack of sense many of the mythic plots make. The details absolutely do not match up, and in order to accept the finale's implications, we have to therefore completely discard the earlier developments in the story. The more I think about it, the more holes appear.