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Battlestar Galactica Finale: An ecologically correct but moronic disappointment
3/22/09
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Posted on 03/22/2009 1:11:30 PM PDT by pabianice
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posted on
03/22/2009 1:11:30 PM PDT
by
pabianice
To: pabianice
Am glad I didn’t waste my time watching the series. All atmosphere, weak plot and weak writing.
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posted on
03/22/2009 1:14:04 PM PDT
by
Woebama
(Paying for my neighbor's mortgage and Wall Street's bonuses sure is hard.)
To: pabianice
the crew disbands to "spread themselves over the world" rather than cluster together for survival.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.
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posted on
03/22/2009 1:14:42 PM PDT
by
Sherman Logan
(Everyone has a right to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.)
To: pabianice
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.
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posted on
03/22/2009 1:14:59 PM PDT
by
Vaquero
( "an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
To: pabianice
I thought I was hooked after the first few episodes of season one.
When they got into deep space and started all the physco babble is when they lost me.
Never could get back into it.
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posted on
03/22/2009 1:17:06 PM PDT
by
PeteB570
(NRA - Life member and Black Rifle owner)
To: pabianice
Sorry, you couldn't be more wrong as it seems you missed the entire point of the series: God's plan always wins. It was the excess in life, etc. that got man to the point of extinction. Man plays God by artificially creating life, which revolts against man and believes in one God, who then ultimately show humans the errs of their ways.
Starting over once again with the hope that maybe this time, they'll get it right, was the perfect ending.
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posted on
03/22/2009 1:17:42 PM PDT
by
rintense
(Go Israel!)
To: PeteB570
I need to know, I really do.....Does Tony Soprano get wacked?
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posted on
03/22/2009 1:18:15 PM PDT
by
shadeaud
("If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten." -- George Carlin st)
To: pabianice
Sounds like the polar opposite of Gene Rodenberry’s take on the same subject in the TV Star Trek’s The Way to Eden.
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posted on
03/22/2009 1:18:57 PM PDT
by
skeeter
To: pabianice
Yet another reason to cheer for the Cylons
To: Snickering Hound
Xena was a Cylon? I KNEW IT!
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posted on
03/22/2009 1:21:19 PM PDT
by
rintense
(Go Israel!)
To: pabianice
A finale that could have been written by the coke-addledAnd probably was.
To: rintense
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.
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posted on
03/22/2009 1:21:40 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: skeeter
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.
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posted on
03/22/2009 1:24:14 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
To: pabianice
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.
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posted on
03/22/2009 1:27:37 PM PDT
by
SVTCobra03
(You can never have enough friends, horsepower or ammunition.)
To: pabianice
Sounds more like Battlestar Cambodia!
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posted on
03/22/2009 1:30:45 PM PDT
by
Nateman
(You know you are doing the right thing when liberals scream.)
To: pabianice
bring back Lorne Green re-runs
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posted on
03/22/2009 1:39:28 PM PDT
by
bigbob
To: tet68
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.
To: rintense
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.
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posted on
03/22/2009 1:52:49 PM PDT
by
machogirl
(not one of Rush's top-ten gal names)
To: cripplecreek
I wish someone would do a Pern TV series. Anne McCaffrey could spin a yarn, and her son isn’t doing too badly.
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posted on
03/22/2009 1:54:26 PM PDT
by
greyfoxx39
(Recession-Your neighbor loses his job, Depression-you lost your job, Recovery-Obama loses HIS job.)
To: greyfoxx39
I thought the Pern series of books could have gone on for several more books.
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posted on
03/22/2009 1:56:55 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
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