Beat me to it--I was going to say that.

Also--keep in mind the Colonials are huge Technophobes---- see scenes
from "Caprica" -50 years before their technology was much higher than
anything we see in their 'modern' period. They invented intelligent
robots, and those robots revolted. This provoked a large reaction
against tech in all its forms... and then the robots struck AGAIN and
wiped out 99.9% of them. It's little wonder they blame tech for all
their troubles and are ok with giving it all up.

This all takes place in a group of exhausted, traumatized survivors
who have at long last found a new home. I doubt anybody was much
listening to what their leaders were saying as they trudged off the
ships onto the earth. if they were all polled 6 months later they
might say "we miss the tech!" but by then it's way too late.

** The cylons (robot ones) -- will they even be able to do FTL ? To do
that they need the 'human' type that runs the ship....can they make
any more of those? My guess is no---

On Mar 22, 2009, at 8:33 PM, Langdon Plaster wrote:

> To be fair, if the statement Baltar made about "God" is true, and
> good and evil are human words ascribed to a being to whom good and
> evil are irrelevant, Then the argument as to whether the Baltar and
> Six were angels or demons is pointless, since angels would work for
> good, and demons would work for evil, and those are human concepts.
>
> --- On Sat, 3/21/09, jaded1000 <jaded1000@...> wrote:
> From: jaded1000 <jaded1000@...>
> Subject: [Battlestar Galactica Rec Room] Finale
> To: battlestargalacticarecroom@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Saturday, March 21, 2009, 9:50 PM
>
> Well, back in 2001 I anxiously awaited the "reimagined" Galactica.
> On the whole it was a disappointment. It lost me in the first few
> minutes when 6 snapped the baby's neck, Well, here we are years
> later & the show goes out with a whimper, not a bang.
>
> OK, the battle scenes were good, leaving aside the fact it was a
> little stupid to risk all those lives for one little girl. Oh, you
> can rationalize it, but I just didn't buy it. But that was a stroke
> of brilliance compared to the ending,. Finally finding earth,
> everyone decides to go off & become hunter gatherers. Yeah, that'd
> last until the first winter. Putting a population like the fleets
> 'with little more than a little food & the cloths on their backs was
> nothing less than mass suicide. From Starships to the club in one
> easy step MA! Yeah, right!
>
> Why did I watch? well for those few rare moments of beauty. Adama's
> last walk through an empty Galactica to the launch of the last Viper
> was one of those moments. ( I have to say my baser side enjoyed the
> titty bar on Caprica, Finally proof the colonials were civilized)
>
> But the final insult was the ghost Balter & Six that had been
> haunting those two characters for so long. I had hoped it would turn
> out they were demons. Instead we get some kind of confused statement
> that I still haven't figured out. As near as I could tell it was a
> lame attempt to make a statement of faith by a person who doesn't
> believe in anything.
>
> Well, I could say more & I will if I get any comments on this
>
> Thanks!
>



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