what I appreciated about the ending is that you had two competing religions throughout the show and at different points different prophecies come true, making it unclear who’s “right.” and then you get to the end and it turns out no one had any idea what was going on, they (and us as viewers) were all being taken for a ride. religion is based on faith, but in the world of BSG you have this unknowable godhead who you can’t even conceptualize in order to have faith in. the “it doesn’t like to be called that” line at the end is so good because it shows just how far off base everyone was in the show, and by extension real life. you’re wrong to even anthromorphize it by referring to it as a person. that’s (neo)platonism!

granted i don’t think any of that was intentional. they definitely tried to pull a deus ex machina because they had set up a bunch of questions that they couldn’t answer. but what is ultimately a cowardly finale accidentally ends up saying something very profound