CP3S said:

doubleofive said:

Its not like "God" came out of nowhere on BSG. A lot of the series and ALL of Caprica were about poly- vs. mono- theism. A "God did it" ending is what the series was always leading up to, we were just too dense to realize it.

Characters discussing theology and talking about their beliefs is a long ways off from a "A wizard God did it!" conclusion.

It was always on the cards that in concluding the Harry Potter Series "A Wizard or Wizards did it" would be a perfectly applicable description because in that rare instance the story is primarily about wizards.

BSG has in all it's incarnations been about the creator and the created and how one was once the other and the other may one day become the one.

It stems from Larson's Mormon background.

In the original show you had Angels who were created by a God trying to help humanity survive so that one day it could one day become angelic itself.

A lot of viewers who followed NuGalactica were so caught up in the Nu they forgot about the Galactica.

The new show tied the Cylons into that cycle and replaced the obvious good God and bad Demiurge Iblis with a single 'thing' that some creatures call God but is neither good nor evil (or is it both?) and seems to have a rational origin anyway.

Why should anyone be surprised to find out that a God thing and some angel things were behind it all when A) it's pretty much spelt out in the pilot episode and B) it was in the original show.