The fact that they could have cribbed this bullshit from someone else just makes it worse.
I still can't beileve how shitty the end of the show was. Fuck Ron Moore. I think it's crappier and crappier more and more with each passing moment.
So much so that I'm starting to change my mind on the whole series. How can I enjoy the visions and flukey shit if it's all a magic man in the sky? It's just lame.
To think Baltar actually saw someone who was talking to him directly... Someone who looked exactly like Caprica for some reason. Someone who is, for all intents and purposes, an angel or otherwise supernatural. No. Just no. I can't enjoy that, not anymore.
I never realized your total revulsion to GOD all this time Ninny, but to each their own I guess. As for the VOTOMS connection, I'm not saying they ripped off the whole series, but there were more than a few similarities. I'm assuming you've never watched the original 52 episode AT: VOTOMS tv series right? Well if not
***SPOILERS For that show after this***
...then you'll be happy to know that the protagonist Chirico Cuvie turns on everyone who's been his friend, shoots at his lover (a "Perfect Soldier" that was a rip off of a *Replicant*) and climbs the tower within Wiseman and accepts his position of
the next step in evolution of the "Supreme Survivor" status that was 3,000 years of natural selection in a universe riddled by strife and intergalactic war, all orchestrated by Wiseman... and "accepts" Wiseman's gift to become a living, walking GOD in the Astragius Galaxy,
since Wiseman is the collective mind of thousands of Overmen and the knowledge of known time and space but does not have a body,
THEN KILLS GOD! Yeah you read that right.
Chirico lies on this techno slab/bed, about to be injected with some Sirit/technological nanobots full of power and supreme intellect and just as he's about to be injected, uses a Bauhauser Armor Magnum to shoot what is revered as GOD, with a .30mm armor piercing anti AT gun at GOD's only vulnerable moment. With Both sides of a galactic federation who never knew GOD but wanted to know him, they feel cheated, and the Secret Society who was doing the bidding of Wiseman is enraged. Chirico finds his lover, whom he was trying to protect and they put themselves into Cryogenic sleep to float in space forever and not be "used" by anyone. "He literally makes the entire universe a much more volatile place after he says"
Not Even GOD controls me! and killed GOD.
This leads to the 5-Part 1994 OVA series "The Heretic Saint" more
commonly known as
The Shinning Heresy where the entire galaxy
is ruled by what is basically the Catholic Church and Chirico is seen as
"the devil" for what he did. His cold coffin is found and he's revived by
The Church of Marteal, and they hold Fyana hostage, pissed he
wars with this new church some 45 years later,
AND KILLS THE POPE
while storming the equivalent of the Vatican in a DANGERDOG A.T. laying
everything and everyone to waste. ***This is the main reason the 1994
series never got released officially in the USA or anywhere else outside of
Japan I'm sure. The Catholics would be in an uproar.
Do you feel better now? There's someone out there who shares your
sentiment and decided to use a show to kill the concept of GOD.
