I suppose I should comment on the much-loved and now-ended Battlestar Galactica. The finale's on Hulu now, so if you haven't seen it yet, it's your own damned fault. Be that as it may, spoilers ahead.
I know there's some disagreement, but I felt like the ending played out pretty naturally. Which is not to say I like it, but it felt planned and it worked within the logic of the show. Evan is free to contradict me here--I know he felt like it was a half-assed tacked-on resolution. Abby found it cheesey. I only found it vaguely disappointing.
Or rather, perhaps I found it disappointingly vague. Some explanation for the inner-Balter/inner-Six bit might have been nice, to say nothing of the incredible disappearing Starbuck. It seems that we've chalked it up to "God", which implies that God's plan for humanity involves killing most of them. For some reason. And while it's weird to see hard-sci-fi go all religous on us, it is taking the series back to its roots, somewhat.
As for the idea that the events of the series are in the past rather than the future: it's not the least obvious twist ending, and it was carried out with a degree of elegance. Although the whole "there are homo sapiens here, by weird coincidence" bit did little for me. And the emotional engagement of the very final scene (on present-day Earth) overwhelmed the absurdity of it. Barely.
That said, I still enjoyed it. It felt like a complete story, even if it was flawed.
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