I just binged the last season over the course of about three days. I knew I'd want to watch the whole season in just one go, uninterrupted, so I held off on a live viewing. And after watching that finale all I have to say is, WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT HORSESHIT?!?!
The season had me right up until the whole transendence being real and Deus Ex Machina the whole ending. Fuck that. What's worse, is the writers know these "higher" beings are kind of horseshit and have Clarke actually make a good point when debating them regarding the fact that they commit genocide. But, the retort is simply cast aside as if it's not worth thinking about. Like, "yeah, we commit genocide, but you see it's different when we do it. We are...ascended."
Fuck you.
This series has always tried to grapple with questions of morality, survival, and the meaning of being human. Yet, in the end it decides to just throw up its hands and go, "yeah, aliens will just fix everything; don't think about it." It's a total betrayal for what the entire series was about. I sure as fuck wouldn't want to "ascend" and become a part of the Borg Collective. How about humanity achieves enlightenment on its own?
Gosh, how could the series just completely eat itself in just one episode? I'm gonna be pissed about this for some time now.