BSG 2004 reunion

[David cgc]

And we saw them try that on New Caprica. It was a disaster. Granted, the planet sucked but there were also clear problems getting a real city built and infrastructure in place. It was basically a military barracks with landed ships as the generators.

Perhaps the finale should have made a more overt connection between the failure of New Caprica and the willingness to go full caveman on Earth, I don't know -- but the reasons they made that decision are in the show if you look.

New Caprica would've also been a major practical drawback to trying to establish a modern settlement; anything they could've reasonably needed to build a colony would've been sent down during the year they spent trying the first time, and they didn't have the time to take any of it back with them when they left.

The writers could've nitpick-proofed the scene by having the first reaction to the idea to build a city be "With what?" and then had Lee suggest they should embrace a low-tech lifestyle rather than painfully succumb to it over time, but for all the gritty realism of BSG, it never had the patience to tackle the same problem twice on-screen, and left it to the audience to assume that Water Shortage II: Son of Water Shortage took place between episodes and went pretty much the same way the first one did, and likewise that if the Fleet left behind all their heavy equipment across the galaxy, was stealing toilet doors for repairs, and had one tube of toothpaste left for 30,000 people to share, recreating modern civilization was more likely to end up like Roanoke than Jamestown.

 

[DigificWriter]

But they didn't...it was revealed after the fact that the kid was Hot Dog's.

You're right... which means that the complaint(s) to which I responded are meaningless and nonsensical.

 

[Thestral]

I've never been motivated to finish watching BSG because of the spoilers I got about the utterly inane decisions to make certain characters Cylons.

The miniseries and season 1 are brilliant though.

 

[Noname Given]

The miniseries and season 1 are brilliant though.

^^^
I'll agree with that. Once Moore turned it into "the existential Cylon show" I lost interest fast.

 

[Ethros]

I'm just gonna chime in that not only do I like the BSG finale, but that Daybreak is my favourite BSG episode, and definitely up there as one of my favourite episodes of anything ever.
Regardless of whether you have a problem with the "ooh why did they abandon their technology" thing, if that's all you can ever pick out from that beautiful 3 hour episode and you claim to have watched and enjoyed the show before it, then that really amazes me. I could easily rattle off about 30 things from it that make it maybe my favourite piece of television, and that's before they even land on Earth.

(but for the record I've never seen Lost, so can't comment on that.)

(And also for the record I don't have a problem with the technology thing, but I'll grant you it was a bit rushed in the episode. They probably could have dealt on it a bit more but the episode/s were already pretty long. I'd imagine there's a fair time jump between Lee coming up with the notion and the Fleet flying off into the sun.)