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Alright, so I really enjoyed the ending, but didn't feel the second half quite fit into the storyline very well. First off, let me say I thought the story arc regarding Kara, and to some extent Baltar and the #6 "visions" was expertly crafted and fit the mantra of the reimaged storyline perfectly - that they were all angels; cool! So "god's" hand in everything can explain away a lot of inconsistencies, nice touch. The fight between Galactica and the home base was one of the best moments of television IMO.
So my main gripe is with how the survivors all decided to give up their technology to live on Earth#2. I just don't buy that. Consider that amoungst the survivors, there are bound to be those who have lived abord ships other than Galactica and probably have not experienced the stress they have, teenagers who want to bring along their favorite PDA book or video game. Consider all the medical archives, information that is essential to survival all being left behind - illogical. Consider they just landed on this planet and can never be certain that the Cylon#2's didn't survive that final attack (I'm sure there are other base-ships out there), thus they could eventually find them on Earth#2 and if they weren't prepared, they would be taken over since the Cavil made it perfectly clear the remaining Cylon#2's were looking for a new home themselves. Consider the hostilities of a new planet, and not having weapons to protect against unknown elements, such as wild animals just seems illogical. Consider there's not enough study done to even know if that planet's sun wasn't going to go supernova like Kabol's did, or that some meteor might smash into the planet, it seems logical that for survival's sake, they might not consisder keeping ships in space. Consider that even if half the fleet agreed with Lee, the other half probably did not. It also crossed my mind how after being in a situation like what they experienced, quite a few of the survivors have Post Tramautica Stress Syndrome, however it seems to me someone who has lost everything would become a horder, keeping everything they can for fear they'll loose it; everything they own has sentimental value (my mom is a horder and grew up moving from place to place her whole childhood). Giving up all their technology seems completly illogical to me, and while some of the survivors might comply, I honestly don't see all of them complying which brings up the paradox, why haven't we found ancient guns or computer components in some cave somewhere? I know it's their story, so I'll go along with it, but the inconsistencies that cannot be pawned off on divine intervention just don't add up. I enjoyed the ending well enough, but felt it was too campy and tried explaining away too much with divine intervention. I would of preferred it if they found a different planet entirely, or if it had to be "our" Earth they found, that they would have shown some resistors leaving with their own technology, helping the inhabitants of Earth from time to time when they needed it but vowing to remain obtuse, hence UFO's. That would be a fantastic tie-in IMO. Just my 2-cents.
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Alright, so I really enjoyed the ending, but didn't feel the second half quite fit into the storyline very well. First off, let me say I thought the story arc regarding Kara, and to some extent Baltar and the #6 "visions" was expertly crafted and fit the mantra of the reimaged storyline perfectly - that they were all angels; cool! So "god's" hand in everything can explain away a lot of inconsistencies, nice touch. The fight between Galactica and the home base was one of the best moments of television IMO.
So my main gripe is with how the survivors all decided to give up their technology to live on Earth#2. I just don't buy that. Consider that amoungst the survivors, there are bound to be those who have lived abord ships other than Galactica and probably have not experienced the stress they have, teenagers who want to bring along their favorite PDA book or video game. Consider all the medical archives, information that is essential to survival all being left behind - illogical. Consider they just landed on this planet and can never be certain that the Cylon#2's didn't survive that final attack (I'm sure there are other base-ships out there), thus they could eventually find them on Earth#2 and if they weren't prepared, they would be taken over since the Cavil made it perfectly clear the remaining Cylon#2's were looking for a new home themselves. Consider the hostilities of a new planet, and not having weapons to protect against unknown elements, such as wild animals just seems illogical. Consider there's not enough study done to even know if that planet's sun wasn't going to go supernova like Kabol's did, or that some meteor might smash into the planet, it seems logical that for survival's sake, they might not consisder keeping ships in space. Consider that even if half the fleet agreed with Lee, the other half probably did not. It also crossed my mind how after being in a situation like what they experienced, quite a few of the survivors have Post Tramautica Stress Syndrome, however it seems to me someone who has lost everything would become a horder, keeping everything they can for fear they'll loose it; everything they own has sentimental value (my mom is a horder and grew up moving from place to place her whole childhood). Giving up all their technology seems completly illogical to me, and while some of the survivors might comply, I honestly don't see all of them complying which brings up the paradox, why haven't we found ancient guns or computer components in some cave somewhere? I know it's their story, so I'll go along with it, but the inconsistencies that cannot be pawned off on divine intervention just don't add up. I enjoyed the ending well enough, but felt it was too campy and tried explaining away too much with divine intervention. I would of preferred it if they found a different planet entirely, or if it had to be "our" Earth they found, that they would have shown some resistors leaving with their own technology, helping the inhabitants of Earth from time to time when they needed it but vowing to remain obtuse, hence UFO's. That would be a fantastic tie-in IMO. Just my 2-cents.
"The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained liberation from the self." -Albert Einsetin