Yet another reason to cheer for the Cylons
Posted on 03/22/2009 1:11:30 PM PDT by pabianice
What a stupid disappointment.
They finally get to Earth at approx. 200,000 BC, around the time earliest Homo ancestor is appearing. And what do they do? They abandon all their technology and books and arts and theology and everything that they are and go -- wait for it -- Back to Nature, so they can die of the common cold or an infected finger if they don't burn or freeze to death first while being eaten by wild dogs. What crap! They should have called it Battlegreen Galactica . I kept waiting for a lecture from Adama on global warming. Then the characters spend the next several days wandering around instead of trying to kill some food animal with a sharp stick, which is all they've decided to allow themselves. Then, Thrace evaporates and the crew disbands to "spread themselves over the world" rather than cluster together for survival.
A finale that could have been written by the coke-addled. Just say no!
Am glad I didn’t waste my time watching the series. All atmosphere, weak plot and weak writing.
Haven't seen the show, but if they insist on living as hunter-gatherers they HAVE to disperse. Few ecosystems can support a concentration of humans at that technology level.
One of the few that can is the Pacific NW coast.
the battle scene was OK. but the ending overall was moronic. A shame considering that overall, the revival of the originally insipid 1970s kids sci fi show, started out excellent.
When they got into deep space and started all the physco babble is when they lost me.
Never could get back into it.
Starting over once again with the hope that maybe this time, they'll get it right, was the perfect ending.
I need to know, I really do.....Does Tony Soprano get wacked?
Sounds like the polar opposite of Gene Rodenberry’s take on the same subject in the TV Star Trek’s The Way to Eden.
Yet another reason to cheer for the Cylons
Xena was a Cylon? I KNEW IT!
And probably was.
Seems to me they ended up exactly where they started,
on the same path to destruction.
Why did they give up their FTL technology?
Makes no sense to me.
In the Dragon Riders of Pern book series they abandoned their technology because they were forced by severe earthquakes and other environmental factors. At least at the end they were rediscovering the lost technology.
How could all 38,000 sign off on a Luddite suicide pact like a bunch of lemmings? I would have had the colonists land on the uninhabited continent of Atlantis.
Sounds more like Battlestar Cambodia!
bring back Lorne Green re-runs
From what I figure, they had to ditch their ships and technology so that the cycle wouldn’t repeat, or at least slow down the cycle.
i agree with your take.
i only started watching the last 6 episodes because i have a relative involved in the series.
from what i could gleam from reading summaries and what i watched, this is what i thought.
I wish someone would do a Pern TV series. Anne McCaffrey could spin a yarn, and her son isn’t doing too badly.
I thought the Pern series of books could have gone on for several more books.
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