I still am too amused at the B ark implications to treat the finale seriously. Plus, Anders is Marvin on Hotblack Desiato's stuntship!
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Liese S. - Mar 23, 2009 11:30:15 am PDT #7546 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Kathy A - Mar 23, 2009 1:32:39 pm PDT #7547 of 30001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I like this recap of BSG's finale by Alan Sepinwall.
Gudanov - Mar 23, 2009 2:00:14 pm PDT #7548 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping
I didn't think Lee (or Moore) was stuck on technology is evil, so much as they were stuck on the fact that we get ahead of ourselves and develop things we aren't prepared to handle.
IMO, I think it would have been better to just cut out the moralizing about technology. It seemed cliche, unnecessary and distracting and like Liese said, B ark.
Polter-Cow - Mar 23, 2009 2:03:48 pm PDT #7549 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
What is B ark?
Strega - Mar 23, 2009 2:47:58 pm PDT #7550 of 30001
Wouldn't you strip the train of everything you need to survive where you get dropped off.
But "everything you need to survive" isn't there in the first place. Again, see New Caprica. When the reward for finding a chance to survive is the last tube of toothpaste, what is there to take?
If you want electricity, are you going to force people at gunpoint to keep working in the refinery so that the ones who are planetside can have it? I don't see that working out well.
dcp - Mar 23, 2009 3:57:42 pm PDT #7551 of 30001
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
Polter-Cow - Mar 23, 2009 4:00:28 pm PDT #7552 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Aha! Thanks.
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 23, 2009 5:22:29 pm PDT #7553 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
One other nitpick, a million light-years away isn't in the galaxy, it's in nowhere, middle of empty space, nada.
Maybe Colonial years are twice as long as ours? That would put Andromeda within range.
Gudanov - Mar 23, 2009 5:58:29 pm PDT #7554 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping
Maybe Colonial years are twice as long as ours? That would put Andromeda within range.
Or really short years, Caprica was orbiting a red dwarf. Actually, I feel silly evening bringing it up actually, it wasn't an important line.
Gudanov - Mar 23, 2009 6:16:53 pm PDT #7555 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping
If you want electricity, are you going to force people at gunpoint to keep working in the refinery so that the ones who are planetside can have it? I don't see that working out well.
I always assumed they needed the refinery to make fuel for thrust, but power came from fusion reactors. Land a ship and instant power station. No real basis for that though.
I just don't buy that you'd get that many people to all agree to give up their technology. Some sure. But things like algae growing thingy would be awfully useful until you managed get a reliable source of food, guns are good for hunting and dealing with large predators, ships are good shelter until you can make something. That Lampkin was getting ready to make plans for a city would seem to indicate they had the ability to build some infrastructure.
It just seemed too unrealistic and preachy for me to buy. In a series where their has always been dissension and conflict it just didn't work for me that everyone would buy into what is a huge decision. For me, it could have just dropped that part and it would have worked better. They could still send the fleet into the sun (that's it they aren't traveling through the stars anymore) and I'd just mentally fill in they took everything they could use first.