An Easterly View....

[rogueslayer452]

I realized I never really talked about the Battlestar Galactica series finale, or gave my opinion on it after it aired. I think due to the incredible polarized reaction by fandom I was kind of standing back from it a bit. Perhaps I will one day give my full overview of my thoughts and everything, but as it stands I will say I absolutely adored it, and the more I rewatch it the more I appreciate and love how it all ended and I couldn't have pictured a better ending to a fantastic series.

But today I want to discuss something that the finale touched on that I've been thinking about lately.

The decision of abandoning technology has been much for debate amongst fans, I have thought about it over and over again and while I do agree that the finale was kind of quick to clean things up a bit, I don't have a huge problem with them abandoning technology and living simple rural lifestyles. I don't think all the humans (and even Cylons) agreed to abandon everything completely, and I'm sure it took much persuasion and they kept certain things they needed to survive, esp if they were going off separately all over the planet, but after everything I think most just wanted good, solid ground underneath their feet. Being on the run, jumping back and forth through space in a confined space as the ships they were on, I think many had their share of technology and wanted a fresh start. Was it the smartest decision to make? Probably not, but I don't think it was unrealistic or illogically done so they could have the cycle repeat with the epilogue meta in the end (which I loved, by the way.)

I'm not denying that the finale wasn't perfect and had its fair share of issues here and there, but overall I wasn't overly bothered by that aspect like a lot of people seem to be, and I don't think it deserves the hate it receives, tbqh.


Yeah, I just have a lot of ~feelings about this finale and this series in general.

On a related note, my Caprica toaster finally arrived! \O/ I contemplated on getting it, going back and forth on "do I really need it?" since I really don't eat toast, but finally ended up going "fuck it" and buying it anyway. Let me say that if it had stayed the original price I wouldn't even bother, but since they lowered it way down I just couldn't resist. ;p

Comments

[rogueslayer452.livejournal.com]

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.

Exactly. It makes me scratch my head in confusion wondering how people made that leap in the first place, since I never assumed they just up and left without any kind of needed medical supplies and other survivalist equipment. It just wouldn't make sense that after everything they went through they would suddenly be careless with their own survival, you know?

I think people also forget what a crap-ass existence it was to live on those spaceships [...] the final season was dropping anvils left and right that all that technology was unsustainable and Galactica itself was in its death throes.

I do think many people forgot that aspect of their lives, as well. I keep hearing arguments about how they could have teared down the ships to make other uses of things that are way advanced to help them instead of reducing themselves to not surviving longer and whatnot. But I think they're forgetting the major point that their technology was disintegrating bit by bit. Them starting anew is something they needed, giving humanity a fresh start, giving themselves a fresh start on life. I can understand the concerns about whether they could have used certain things from the ships themselves or modern weapons when venturing off to new territories, but ITA that it fits perfectly with these characters and everything they had endured over the years.