except...
if the show constantly begs the question "what is Kara Thrace?" and uses that hook to bring you in, you need to answer it. Even the promos were saying "the truth will be revealed"
Sorry, but to not deliver that, once you kept asking the question, is cheap. It is like saying, watch this show because there are these questions you want answered. They answered some, but not all. Ridiculing viewers for not liking this treatment is blaming the victim.
I personally thought the whole finale was fine, even with all the plot holes, things that did not make sense, and all the rest. I never really cared about finding Kara's status, or that of the "head characters", or any of the spirituality aspects - I figured they would be written off as spiritual in some way.
what really killed it for me was the existence of our "earth"
They already showed an "earth" that looked just like our earth. It was destroyed, not habitable.
No explainations given as to why this new "earth" has continents that look EXACTLY like the other "earth".
At the end of the day, there is only one explaination. The show told us that "cinder earth" was in fact our earth. They did this so that we would not think that finding our earth was an option. But then they did find our earth. They cheated. they tricked us. Without any kind of other explaination given, that is the only conclusion we can draw.
and it's bullshit. You can't cheat your viewers and expect them to like it. Those that think it is all good are battered wives, coming back for more.
Lost is 10 times the show that BSG is. I might not have said that before this finale, but I have no doubt about it now. At least it has not cheated the audience.