Lords of Kobol, hear my prayer...

(hugs) You know I adore the finale - the last 30 minutes of it anyway - and while I mock the technology-into-the-sun thing I think it's mostly a case of RDM going for emotional resonance over nitty-gritty details. I do get annoyed sometimes when people insist all the MEDICINE went away (whatever limited resources they still had of it) because obviously nobody meant to imply that -- authorial intent was that they unloaded a ton of supplies with them, and I never assumed anything else.

I think people also forget what a crap-ass existence it was to live on those spaceships, and while the show often handwaved all the resources and necessities (including booze!) they still had, the final season was dropping anvils left and right that all that technology was unsustainable and Galactica itself was in its death throes. I'm not saying there's no weird reactionary undercurrent to "we're gonna restart our whole civilization and be farmers yay", but I think it fits in the universe with these characters.

YAY CAPRICA TOASTER!