1861

No, that’s not my problem, that’s their problem.

1862

The problem with the nitpickers who wanted to see the Colonial ships kept is that then there’s the problem of explaining why modern humans haven’t unearthed aliens spaceships from 150,000 years ago (although I’m sure the tinfoil hat wearers would disagree with that…).

Still the potential for some random stuff to turn up… like if Head Baltar & Six decide to appear to someone and point them to the goodies… to avert the Cylon attack in 2035… hellllo next spin-off!

1863

No.

Remember, there’s no Sci-fi Channel anymore. I don’t want a BSG:Spinof produced by Syfylis.

1864

All they’d have had to do was say “We have to get rid of our technology because it’s the only way we can be sure the hostile Cylons will never find us again.” That would have been more in line with the theme of doing whatever it takes to ensure the survival of the human race.

1865

I might have bought the decision to dump the ships into the sun if the Galactica had landed on Earth maybe 10,000 years ago. They scout around, see that Earth has civilizations just taking hold, and decide to ditch the technological baggage and try to work with the different civs here to make a better way for everyone. Everybody splits up to integrate into the native societies and see what they can do to help. This would have also made more sense with the mythology, how the Colonial gods were transferred to Earth in classical cultures, etc.

More I think about this, the more surprised I am that the creators didn’t think of this. I guess it wouldn’t have fit with setting Hera up as Eve, but in all other respects, it works pretty well. That or the Atlantis idea would’ve made more sense than what they wound up with.

1866

Just watched the finale again. I love it to death, and it makes me cry here and there.
I thought I remembered something; we see Galactica ramming the Cylon colony. Didn’t we, a few episodes ago, see Hera playing with spaceship models, and banging Galactica against a basestar?

1867

They didn’t have a model for the colony.

1868

I’m in the WTF camp as well with regard to ditching the ships so quickly. I can see doing a Cortez and trashing them to remove the temptation to bail later, but they should have been stripped first. For example, Galactica must have some sweet machine shops, and machine tools would be more valuable than gold once axes, saws and such started wearing out. These could have been disassembled and ferried down. That mining ship, at least, should have been spared.

What bugs me is that anyone with halve a brain would see this, yet the writers went for the quick and stupid solution. Although the bulk of the characters seemed to be in the hairdressers and insurance salesmen category, there must be some engineers among the survivors. Throw in the whole ridicules “God” bit on top and the ending was a big disappointment.

As I watched, the first thing that popped into my head was “It’s like they started a game of Dwarf Fortress without any picks, saws or an anvil. Should be a short game.”

1869

I always pretty much guessed that they’d be the forebearers of modern civilization, but I assumed that they’d do it a lot smarter: they would have the last battle of Galactica and the fleet happen above Earth, the Cylons would utterly destroy the fleet (causing all survivors to use escape pods to jettison to random points on the surface) and Galactica would only pull off a victory at the last minute through ramming the last Cylon basestar.

It’s an easy solution: humanity is dispersed with minimum technology across the surface of the Earth and all the ships are destroyed. That’s really the only way to get towards the ending they were hinting towards logically.

1870

No, but I guess her using the available ship, a basestar, is meaningful enough as it is… Anyway, awesome show, awesome finale, don’t care about unanswered questions. Life doesn’t always hold all the answers and I don’t feel like having had my time wasted with a few plot dead ends. I’ve had one HELL of a time watching this series over the past few years.

1871

Thus confirming my theory that in the last half-hour, BSG transformed into a chick flick.

1872

I’m not ashamed that movies/TV can make me cry.

1873

I’m still unclear about who the primitive humans on Earth2 are? Is it just a massive coincidence that they are breedable humans or are they somehow all related to the original tribes? (which is what I think)

1874

Weren’t you paying attention? A wizard did it.

The sad thing is, I’m only barely kidding.

1875

Earth1 is not our Earth. If you go watch that episode again, in the far away shots, you don’t actually see our continents.

Instead, God/It/Bob Dylan gave Kara the notes to “All Along the Watchtower” as the coordinates to our planet, which happens to be occupied by primitive homo sapiens (who are still living in Africa).

Baltar said that the odds of homo sapiens involving in two different worlds millions of light years apart are miraculously high.

1876

Earth1 is crispy earth. Earth2, in the finale, is our earth (per RDM). I caught Baltar’s statement. I’m just not clear on whether they explained how homo sapiens got there.

1877

Sorry…I forgot a “not” in the first sentence.

1878

Picking nits with the killer robot space opera with angels: Mitochondrial Eve did exist, but we can never know who she was, and her identity changes as the population changes. There will never be a headline such as the one in the show.

Eve is our most recent common matrilineal ancestor. All of Eve’s countless generations of matrilineal ancestors are also, therefore, our common matrilineal ancestors. Even supposing we had complete DNA records on every living human and could determine whether fossilized DNA was matrilineally related, we could never determine whether the fossilized DNA was the most recent common ancestor.

1879

Granted that we don’t know who Mitochondrial Eve is, is it really likely to change anytime soon? I mean, say Eve had three daughters. For the title to pass on to one of them anytime soon, that daughter would have to be Mitochondrial Eve for >99% of the population. I guess what I’m wondering is, given random interbreeding, is the tendency for M-Eve to remain fixed for very long periods, or does the title tend to advance at a fairly rapid rate, like one generation every 50?

1880

I hated the finale. I wish I had never started watching BSG in the first place.