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!
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I never quite what Starbuck stood for in Moby Dick . . .
I was disappointed. The human/centurion assault on the Colony was great, as was Galactica’s final FTL jump. But the resolution was contrived and made no sense. 38,000 people are all going to agree to stop traveling faster than light and live like a caveman? Yeah, right. They couldn’t agree on anything during the series. That was the problem. The writers threw out the last 4 years for an easy out. The characters as they were in season 1 bore little resemblance to what they were in the finale. Kara was an angel? Or a ghost? Baltar and Caprica Six were angels doing the bidding of God? Weren’t these the two that were largely responsible for the genocide of the Twelve Colonies?
All the BSG-Humans and Cylons did die out. That reference to Hera being the mitochondrial Eve of "us" humans means that the Cylons and BSG-Humans left no descendants.
So, yep, it was a stupid ending with the survivors essentially committing suicide.
Not sure. Ask Ron Moore. :)
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I think destroying the ships made some sense, since after all Cortez did the same thing when he landed in Mexico. However, I don’t think it was realistic that they would have just abandoned all their technology on Lee Adama’s say so. I think it would have been more realistic that they kept what they feasibly could, but as things like manufactured bullets and other industrial goods ran out, the whole society would slowly revert back to a more primitive level more on a par with the native population with whom they melded over time. As for books, I like to think that they took what few they had on board, but that over time, the subject matter just was not that relevant to the settlers’ daily struggle for survival, so that they were slowly abandoned by the descendents.
I think she is just called Eve because she is the oldest human skeleton found. I don’t think it necessarily means that the other humans and cylon settlers did not reproduce or interbreed with the natives.
Volcanoes, illnesses that wiped out huge swathes of the population every so often and cost them knowledge, and sheer bad luck. Yes, I’m a Pern geek.
There are a few decent stories over on fanfiction.net to keep it going as well. Honestly, some of them are stronger than Todd’s stuff!
Dragon Days for example...followup to Dragonsdawn. Pretty convincing style and it takes up basically where Dragonsdawn left off, with the first mating flights, the first clutches and the first of the greens and blues.
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2854662/1/Dragon_Days
Thanks for the link. I will check it out.
NO WONDER they are going to reboot the reboot.
I think your last comments is EXACTLY how they wrote it.
stoned out of their minds.
no it was politically correct garbage.
It was a lame ass attempt to go left with an original series that started out about your enemies socliciting for peace but using it as a ruse to attack. (sound familiar?)
The devolved into pro left wing unionista minutia.
You ended up hoping the ALL died.
It also tossed the premise of the earth being off on its own lost to the other twelve planets in modern time. Instead everyone was busy being rebooted.
The special effects were very good.
Hopefully the new reboot will take advantage of them.
I hear the original starbuck is mixed up in it somehow.
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