I know! They are doomed and they seem so unaware of their doom - that's why the ending is unsatisfactory to me.
You know, I just... I woke up, and I looked in the mirror, and I thought, hey, what's with all the sin? I need to change. I'm... I'm dirty. I'm, I'm bad with the... sex and the envy and that, that loud music us kids listen to nowadays.
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sumi - Mar 21, 2009 2:38:56 pm PDT #7498 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
sumi - Mar 21, 2009 2:42:11 pm PDT #7499 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
Oh, even when Baltar talks about knowing about cultivation - I thought: cultivating what? Did they bring seeds with them?
beth b - Mar 21, 2009 2:51:08 pm PDT #7500 of 30001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
Just watched the final BSG. I get the separating ( did the chief go to the Isle of Man? ), but not so sure it was the wisest idea. And although I have vague fantasies of living in a situation where my main goal is survival -- I want my books for info -- and my internet -- and a whole bunch of the tolls I have gathered. And In no way do I think I can grow enough food for two... We'd be really skinny if we relied on my very very pale green thumb.
Juliebird - Mar 21, 2009 3:02:17 pm PDT #7501 of 30001
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
Even the relatively more primitive resident of Jamestown wouldn't have survived the winter without the help of the natives. (disclaimer: everything I remember about this I learned from Disney and Colin Farrel). The higher the technologically advanced the civilization, the more distant they are from true survival and self-sufficiency.
It *can* be done, if you come from a culture of hand-making tools and living off the earth and all that jazz.
And Baltar? Cultivating soil in the saddle between two peaks? Are you frakking mad? There's a really good reason why the farm belt in the states is situated in flat flat flat land. There's probably 1.5 inches of topsoil on top of a mountain, let alone in between the peaks on a ridge. Unless I'm freaking out over Baltar meaning to say "valley". In which case: floods!
Okay, he could grow rice or cranberries...
DCJensen - Mar 21, 2009 3:06:00 pm PDT #7502 of 30001
All is well that ends in pizza.
Well, they could try cultivation, of course, but really? Nomadic hunter-gathering is in their future for some time.
Until they start burning the trees to increase the value of their currency, of course.
Jessica - Mar 21, 2009 3:59:56 pm PDT #7503 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Cultivating soil in the saddle between two peaks? Are you frakking mad?
No, just obsessed with boobs.
Juliebird - Mar 21, 2009 4:08:47 pm PDT #7504 of 30001
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
No, just obsessed with boobs.
hee! One-track mind, indeed.
Jacob's recaplet is up, and expresses most of my disappointments with the finale, even if he is rather generous in his conclusion (which is for the series as a whole, so I can't quite quibble).
Liese S. - Mar 21, 2009 4:12:49 pm PDT #7505 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Ha! I just watched, and I can't even tell you how much I hated the finale. It was very unsatisfying! Someone is going to have to write me a wish fulfillment fic, and I don't even read fic!
Polter-Cow - Mar 21, 2009 4:15:29 pm PDT #7506 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I thought the finale was half-awesome and half-eyeroll. Kind of like Pete's A/C dichotomy, except that I loved the Opera House vision come to life, although, sure, it would have been better for it to have been more meaningful.
Juliebird - Mar 21, 2009 4:19:35 pm PDT #7507 of 30001
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
In theory, I loved that the Opera House ended up being Galactica, but I still can't stop gnashing my teeth over the Four standing over Anders tank and posing and not actually helping. Tigh doesn't pick up a gun in the finale? WTF?!!!! Tigh poses and is useless and his only purpose is to blend with a flashback of a vision? Maybe one of them should have been up there with Anders, but the rest should have had a rifle in their hands guarding Anders or the CIC or something!