@rosborne979,
"rosborne979" wrote:
rosborne979 wrote:The resolutions offered in the last episode of Galactica were just absurd.
I prefer to pretend that the last episode never even happened.
Quote:Here's how I would have ended it:
1. Instead of landing on a primitive Earth of 150k years ago, they could have landed on a far future Earth which had returned to a primitive state because of the downfall of an immense pre-existing civilization (which would obviously have given rise to the colonists who eventually came to be on Caprica).
This would have given the Galacticans the same world to settle on with the same "return to nature" options, but would have explained the genetic similarity between the Earth people and Galactica people. They could even have created sequels by having the Galacticans slowly discover the ancient history and civilization which vanished on Earth. Lots of good sci-fi could have been gleaned from that.
2. Obviously Kara should have been a cylon who was resurrected after flying into the nebula. Finding her burned body and ship could have been explained away as a previous version of her from her line of "models", and not the actual one that died in the nebula.
3. The music which bound all the final five could have been explained away as an ancient embedded signal from the now vanished civilization on Earth (since we know that music is from our own culture).
4. Baltar's visions could also have been explained away simply by making him another cylon. In previous episodes they hinted that there were more than five final cylons anyway, so they had already planted the seed for that.
Let's see, what else can I explain ...
3.
Please bear in mind that except for
little and few snippets,
I did not see the 2nd series of Battlestar G. (because of the dreaded grit).
Hence, I am ignorant of probably 98% of it; (but still, I remain curious).
Another way to end up, possibly,
instead of their finding a ruined, old, civilization here:
thay land on Earth whose technology is advanced far beyond
the civilization of Admiral Adama, and which is more than a match
for the Cylon enemy, who need no longer be feared, inasmuch
as the Admiral 's guys repose in the security of our
superpower.
To
MY mind, sci-fi is much more fun when invested with power for the good guys
and optimism. I wanna see new, ez power, comfort, luxury, wealth, cleverness, n really beautiful chicks.
I think looking at old ruins of our own civilization
is
depressing to the point that I change the channel, looking for something better.
When the first TV series of
Battlestar Gallactica started,
American TV had fallen into the grip of perverted, politically correct mothers
who alleged that their children were being turned into frenzied homocidal maniacs by violence on TV.
Thay wanted
censorship of anyone getting killed on TV.
It was horrible. A few murderers tried to get away with it by blaming TV.
In that sociological environment,
Battlestar Gallactica arrived,
wherein only metalic robots were getting destroyed in battle.
The moms coud tolerate non-living machines getting wrecked.
David
