Brattlestreet Garlictoaster
This has been a pretty strong and satisfying season. After last night's mid-season closer, I thought that they'd ended on the wrong foot; classicaljunkie and I looked at each other going "huh?" as the crew had a celebratory freak-out before performing any sort of scan on the planet they'd just found. It felt like a set-up for a fall, all right. During the final scene, I said to the people in the TV, "Well what did you expect, exactly?"
After some thought, though, I decided I liked it better than that, precisely because the colonists in fact weren't expecting anything. Their reasons for chasing Earth were basically the same as they'd been from the first episode of the miniseries; it gave them something to strive for, since everything else they knew was blow'd up. But practically, it existed only as a conceptual goal; nobody was claiming that Earth had any strategic value or resources or even people to welcome them. So when they actually do find it, and it turns out that it's just another goddamn ruin, like Kobol and all the other way-points they'd left behind in their search? Yeah, that will dampen anyone's spirits. (The fact they'd just arranged an alliance with the genocides of humanity to get there didn't help, either.)
After some thought, though, I decided I liked it better than that, precisely because the colonists in fact weren't expecting anything. Their reasons for chasing Earth were basically the same as they'd been from the first episode of the miniseries; it gave them something to strive for, since everything else they knew was blow'd up. But practically, it existed only as a conceptual goal; nobody was claiming that Earth had any strategic value or resources or even people to welcome them. So when they actually do find it, and it turns out that it's just another goddamn ruin, like Kobol and all the other way-points they'd left behind in their search? Yeah, that will dampen anyone's spirits. (The fact they'd just arranged an alliance with the genocides of humanity to get there didn't help, either.)