10 TV Shows Utterly Ruined By Their Final Revelations

8. Battlestar Galactica - God Did It

For the majority of its four seasons, the Battlestar Galactica revival was an intelligent, provocative and thoroughly engrossing sci-fi classic, though its epic three-part finale proved wildly divisive with fans.

The primary sticking point was the finale's refusal to resolve many of the show's long-running thematic through-lines while leaving countless plot strands up in the air.

By far the most frustrating, aspect, though, was the cop-out ending, where it's implied that humanity is apparently doomed to a repeating cycle of scientific advancement and annihilation. To cap it all off, this is apparently all part of God's plan (though it doesn't like to be called that, as we learn in the cringe-worthy final scene).

Though religion was always a peripheral component of the show, to boil the entire series' events down to God's will felt enormously lazy, unsatisfying and weirdly anti-science for a sci-fi show.

The pushback was so strong that even Game of Thrones author George R. R. Martin chimed in: "Looks like somebody skipped Writing 101, when you learn that a deus ex machina is a crappy way to end a story."