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priscellie ([info]priscellie) wrote in [info]tigerkat24,
One of the pinnacles of my geeky existence was discussing the BSG Finale with John Hodgman. The small group of folks in the discussion seemed united in its criticism that the notion of an entire society being willing to regress to a primitive culture was difficult to swallow. Hodgman quipped, "For instance: my character, the brain surgeon, would be unlikely to want to return to trepanning."

Heck, this is a society whose raptor pilots are offered the last tube of toothpaste as the ultimate form of incentive for finding a habitable planet. This is a society that's used to a (more or less) ready supply of pharmaceuticals and cigarettes and feminine hygiene products and meals you may have to squabble for occasionally, but you don't have to grow yourself or track down and kill. Relief from an all-algae diet may be a brief morale booster, but I give them a week before some horde of survivors whose slates weren't all that dirty to begin with revolts and steals Adama's raptor and flies to some other part of the planet to create their own frakkin' city, thank you very much. Maybe that's what Atlantis was.

The idea of cities somehow being a source of evil boggles my mind. In its simplest form, evil is the human desire for power, unchecked by human empathy. Human, human, human. Whether you life in a city or a farm or a nomadic hunter/gatherer culture or a crumbling Battlestar, the potential for human weakness exists in equal measure. And the "moral education" of the prehistoric humans being painted as some kind of noble undertaking was WAY too "White Man's Burden" for me.

While I totally dug the first half of the finale, the second half was just a big pile of "whuh?" and fail. Except for the Adama/Roslin scene, which was made of tears and beauty. But mostly whuh and fail.


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