Battlestar Galactica -- Season 4

**rockymtnhigh** · 03-23-2009 12:43 PM

Originally Posted by dfergie

Who's to say they abandoned all technology, it was stated that supplies would be placed around all of the places where the humans were dropped off...

True enough. Its just fun continuing the debate.

**dfergie** · 03-23-2009 01:04 PM

Plus remember New Caprica, they had to have left much behind there as the Cylons came and the fleet jumped... then returned to liberate the population... resources had to have been spread pretty thin since then..

**gck105** · 03-23-2009 01:06 PM

Originally Posted by rockymtnhigh

I just don't think it plausible that 35,000 people are going to abandon all technology and live off the land. I don't think they would last a week in a wilderness. It was in many ways a disappointing way to end it. I think they could have chosen to make several colonies, and do as was suggested above, but then if they did that, we would be saying, then why did they end up on earth, and how come we have no record of them.

If they are going to get in with the natives, they can learn from them were to get food, how to hunt, how to farm. They don't have to live off the land in all cases. Some obviously will because they are going where there are no people, but I think a lot will try to coexist with tribes or whatever are already present.

**long_time_DNC** · 03-23-2009 01:08 PM

I'm sure they didn't abandon all technology at first...but with everyone so spread out and the fact that power sources would eventually run down, and no tools to repair things as stuff breaks and even if you had tools, eventually you need something you don't have......well, you get the idea. Survival comes down to who can invent something that meets a need that solves a problem that needs to be solved.

Helo's whole comment about hunting was interesting, mainly because (as I was thinking about it), eventually you're going to run out of ammo and with no way to make more, you're going to have to adapt to the native's means of hunting...spears or maybe bows/arrows. Either that, or everyone learns to farm and becomes vegetarians...

Anyway, my point is, you learn to adapt or give up and die.

The ending of the series is what it is...it's not perfect and it never would be because once it's done, it can be nit-picked to death because we have a record of it that we can go over and over and over, looking for how we would've done things differently. I've done the same in my head (and to a much lesser extent, here) and what it boils down to every time is: it's done and overwith. We may not like every aspect of it, but hey, at least they tried to give us some decent degree of an ending. I'll take it and be satisfied with it, since some shows never get to give viewers any closure...they're cancelled and they just end, leaving the viewers hanging. This wasn't the case with BSG and FWIW, I'll be content with what we've been given...

**dfergie** · 03-23-2009 01:08 PM

After "The Plan"... next spring or fall BSG "Jungle Fever"

**theoak** · 03-23-2009 01:21 PM

I will say I am a little confused ... I thought Earth was a radiation wasteland.

So the "Earth" that Kara brought them to, was this a new "Earth" or the same one and they are just living in areas that did not get nuked?

**long_time_DNC** · 03-23-2009 01:26 PM

Originally Posted by theoak

I will say I am a little confused ... I thought Earth was a radiation wasteland.

So the "Earth" that Kara brought them to, was this a new "Earth" or the same one and they are just living in areas that did not get nuked?

The "Earth" that was a nuclear wasteland was the first "Earth", were the cylon tribe went to from Kobol.

This "Earth", nice, green, looks like where we live, is a different planet...150,000 years in our past. No time-travel involved, just that now we know...this series takes place 150,000 years in our past...

**dfergie** · 03-23-2009 01:30 PM

Adama told Laura before they took off in the Raptor, that they would or could call it Earth...

**dfergie** · 03-23-2009 01:33 PM

Originally Posted by vurbano

I loved Adama's line about Baltar and his one track mind... "we can breed with them". That was great.

I thought about putting together "one liner" clips like this from previous episodes... like when Tighe and Caprica are in the sickbay with the ultra sound and Doc Cottle tells them to shut the frak up, or Tighe telling Adama about his Grandpa...