Worst Tv show finale ever?

[sidious618]

The point was not to give up technology forever.

Yeah, I don't know where people get this from. It's not like they had much technology they could've brought down. The ships were falling apart and they didn't have anything else of note. They brought the food and medicine so what else do you want?

 

[Nowhere Man]

BSG - I can see them getting rid of the ships, but living tech free don't make any sense. If I was part of an advanced civiliation I would want to give up medicines, and other items that will make my life easy on whatever planet I settle on.

They kept the medicine (what little they had left).

The point of giving up the technology was to stop the vicious cycle from recurring, as though technology was the root cause of it. Two problems:

1. The root cause was not technology but human nature. Cavil's insanity was the fundamental reason for the attack on the colonies, but he wasn't insane because he was a robot; he was insane because he was too much of a human. His insanity was a human kind of insanity, not a robot kind. None of the Cylons were very convincingly robotic - they could have all been 100% human, who saw themselves as somehow different from the other humans, and had some grudge against the others, and the story would have been the same.

2. Giving up technology did not stop the cycle, since humanity has obviously evolved technology anyway. So Apollo's plan accomplished nothing in exchange for the pain, suffering and premature death it no doubt caused. Not only did Apollo's plan procede from a logical fallacy, it didn't even have the intended effect.

That's a good enough example of the fundamental problem with BSG, which is not just in the finale. The underlying logic of the writing is poorly thought through and doesn't hold up to any degree of inspection.

As I do agree that you don't solve the problem with just simply getting rid of technology,but as we all know humans are very illogical creatures. I think it's human nature not to solve a problem,but to make it go away. Out of site,out of mind. If your an alchoholic and you get DUI after DUI,you eventually learn to not drive or you get a cab, but god forbid that you stop drinking. I think that the whole theme of this has happened before is bieng portrayed when you see that the problem is not solved. On the other hand though,I think they did realize that it wasen;t just technology,but it was the first step towards changing. I also think that 150,000 years is a long time to retain a lesson from history and obviousley we didn't retain that lesson. This too is human nature to create and explore, therefore all this will happen agian. Six was optomistic and so am I and the next 10-20 years is the crucial time where we will make decisions that will effect whether or not the human race will continue or not.Robotics is not the only threat to our existance. There's "Terrorism", poverty, and the biggest threat is the environment. In the movies you see the point of no return, we are very near that point for all of those. If we make bad decisions on any of those topics were done for. I think that is what the finalle was about and is what BSG and Caprica is all about.Unfortunatelly in Caprica we will see them make the wrong decisions. This is also the idea conveyed in the SW prequels is what led to the Empire. This is something the US. needs to look at also.