Well, God mostly, and cop-out. A lot of people seem to agree that the entire five year story amounts to Ron Moore telling us to be afraid of (and subsequently nice to) our robot toys and pets and friends.
Obviously the fact that Hera is the reason they all went and did it all and she actually has nothing whatsoever to do with the survival of humanity doesn't sit well, either.
Didn't they say Hara was the mitochondrial Eve when they flashed forward to today? I know she didn't have any super powers, but having the genetic makeup to allow the race to carry on seemed like she did save the race.
Re: You're going to hate me for this but...g_the_curiousMarch 25 2009, 13:35:28 UTC
was just so heartbroken for (particularly) Adama, who went through all of that and couldn't enjoy it with the love of his life.
Adama and Roslyn finally 'hooked up' after they discovered the nuked Earth, which was more than I thought would happen. Their devotion to duty repeatedly made that an impossibility. The fact that she had terminal cancer made her death inevitable, and on top of that, I'm not a believer in the "love is all you need" concept. (IE: you need hobbies, a social life outside your significant other.. basically all the things that make you a human being outside the person you love so that you don't implode.)
So.. didn't feel very sorry for him. I was angry at him for choosing a dead woman over his own son and best friend.
There WAS life on the planet, so I just assumed those survivors who spread out integrated with them.Was there life only on the African continent, or was that tribe simply the most advanced? Regardless, there's some disturbing clues as to how things actually panned out
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I agree about the abandonment of technology and family/community. It seemed like inbreeding and lack of medicine would be the end of the race, which turned out to be what happened to everyone except Hera and her ancestors.
On the God thing. You already know this, but I liked that they didn't endorse any one interpretation of God/Gods. If they did that, it would have ruined the series for me too. The message I got was, "It doesn't matter how you understand it or what you call it. It's not on any one group's side. Nobody owns it."
I would have liked a more scientific explanation, and also to have seen them incorporate science into the new society. You don't have to abandon science to have a belief system.
Anyways, in the grand scheme of time, it didn't take humanity that long to develop technology again. Giving it up was completely futile.
"1: The existence of an interventionist God: I will not take this from anyone. Nobody knows such a thing. The Galactica series uses the interventionist God model to explain the story! This reminds me of the intelligent design concept. Religion masquerading as science so as to give it extra credibility. That's what this felt like
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Obviously the fact that Hera is the reason they all went and did it all and she actually has nothing whatsoever to do with the survival of humanity doesn't sit well, either.
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Adama and Roslyn finally 'hooked up' after they discovered the nuked Earth, which was more than I thought would happen. Their devotion to duty repeatedly made that an impossibility. The fact that she had terminal cancer made her death inevitable, and on top of that, I'm not a believer in the "love is all you need" concept. (IE: you need hobbies, a social life outside your significant other.. basically all the things that make you a human being outside the person you love so that you don't implode.)
So.. didn't feel very sorry for him. I was angry at him for choosing a dead woman over his own son and best friend.
There WAS life on the planet, so I just assumed those survivors who spread out integrated with them.Was there life only on the African continent, or was that tribe simply the most advanced? Regardless, there's some disturbing clues as to how things actually panned out ( ... )
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I see the stuff you're indicating, but I think it is a stretch to believe that all humanity died off except for Hera.
Then again, I keep trying to stick to my guns that Starbuck was the daughter of the Permaboxed 7, Daniel. All the signs are there.
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On the God thing. You already know this, but I liked that they didn't endorse any one interpretation of God/Gods. If they did that, it would have ruined the series for me too. The message I got was, "It doesn't matter how you understand it or what you call it. It's not on any one group's side. Nobody owns it."
I would have liked a more scientific explanation, and also to have seen them incorporate science into the new society. You don't have to abandon science to have a belief system.
Anyways, in the grand scheme of time, it didn't take humanity that long to develop technology again. Giving it up was completely futile.
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