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.

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...

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.

Cultivating soil in the saddle between two peaks? Are you frakking mad?

No, just obsessed with boobs.

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).

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!

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.

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!

I liked the battle part, but everything else was pretty meh for me.

i've started a series rewatch with my parents, who are watching for the first time. we watched the mini last night. right now we're watching 33.

I could have done without the "Science is BAD" lecture and proto-Cylon montage at the end, but you know, I think this show has earned it. Not the scene specifically, but the right to be a little indulgent in the end.

This. At a certain point I was worried that Apollo was going to tell us that he was also going to be careful not to litter. But I also agree on feeling they'd kind of earned the right. And I did love Baltar growling, "You know he doesn't like that name."

I figure that's why Hera specifically is "mitochondrial Eve" - nobody else lived long enough to have more kids.

Well, I don't think it needs to be taken that far. Other people could have had plenty of descendants. Humanity came close to dying out at least once tens of thousands of years later.

It's a Mobius strip; if it hadn't been Hera, it would have been someone else. But it was Hera, so that's why she's important. I kind of like that part of it: Hera wasn't at all important to the fleet. She was important to the viewers, because we're descended from her. And it's a cute nod to the original show, too.

I don't think it was perfect but I never really expected they'd cross every T. I have simple needs: I got to see lots of spaceships and explosions, so yay. And the clusterfuck that ended with Cavil shooting himself? And then the nuking of the colony? Comedy gold, people. I hit pause, laughed for a couple of minutes, then I watched that sequence again for giggles before moving on.

I know too much about non-tech subsistence living to believe they're going to be happy for very long, especially without medicine and, oh, guns and just about everything else.

IJS, but as opposed to how happy they have been? I think it'd suck, but the civilian fleet has been living in sucksville for years now, so this'd just be a different flavor.