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I really liked it, I also get the dropping technology thing, those big space tombs would be the last thing I'd want to see on a new world, especially after New Caprica failed, its all a bad memory.

I must admit I was doing the whole 'I'm not gonna cry bloke thing' when Laura died, and later when Bill was sitting by the grave. I think they rounded off most of the characters spot on for me.

I'll watch Caprica when it comes on, but not sure If I'll bond to the characters like I did in this show. I mean I almost literally cheered when Helo was alive at the end.

Great stuff.

To drag this up, I finally got round to watching the end 3 episodes. Not too happy compared with what could have happened. I can tolerate the ditching of technology, but I'd have left Kara with Anders on the ship instead of outright making her some magical angel. The thing that really bugged me most of all was that throughout the series, the only thing holding people together was each other and their relationships, and to then go and burn that all away by everyone going off on their own bugged the hell out of me. There was way more religion stuff than I thought was necessary and I think that could have all been handled a lot better. What I was hoping to see was them setting down on a planet (not Earth) with a similar ending but a lot more community instead of isolation. Could have been a worse ending, but it was a shame to have such an enjoyable series (aside from a few episodes here and there) go out with a fizzle instead of a bang.

Well if you watched the ending for Deep Space Nine, its similar in a big blast of action and then lots of pseudo religious nonsense er stuff, to tie up a few ends.

Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:Technology designed to make life earlier annihilated your entire civilisation, and very, very nearly your entire species.

And so having reached peace and tranquility, and seen a world devoid and untouched by the folly of your previous actions, would you really be so quick to embrace the previous lifestyle which ultimately lead to your current situation? Also, consider Roslyn's words, that this single planet held more life on it than the 12 Colonies combined. That would stagger you utterly. Plus, the 13th Tribe, your promised land, went exactly the same way as your own.

I'd turn my back. There are only so many times you can make a mistake, and after the first, it becomes a conscious decision to repeat that mistake...

I think the real question is how much of their technology did they give up? If they're really giving up all technology for a lifestyle of hunting and subsistence farming (presumably with no cultivated seeds, etc.)...wow, good luck. They'd quite literally be trading one fight for survival for another, even if they placed their people in relative garden spots.

I kinda get what they were going for, but it still comes across to me as something a bunch of writers in LA would think up. Getting back to nature sounds great until you realize that no antibiotics means a minor injury can end up killing you.

Personally, I think I would have liked an ending that tied back into the "Chariots of the Gods" theme from the original series. Remember the opening narration?

"There are those who believe that life here began out there, far across the universe, with tribes of humans who may have been the forefathers of the Egyptians, or the Toltecs, or the Mayans. That they may have been the architects of the great pyramids, or the lost civilizations of Lemuria or Atlantis."

Again, I didn't hate it and liked the general idea. But "robots and technology bad" is hopelessly naive and more simplistic than I expected to see from these writers.

gorgon wrote:Again, I didn't hate it and liked the general idea. But "robots and technology bad" is hopelessly naive and more simplistic than I expected to see from these writers.

That wasn't even close to to the theme. Go back and watch again! This is your homework assignment.

Again for others: They didn't give up ALL technology, just a great deal of it. They also didn't all split up and go their seperate ways, they formed small groups to seed different areas which probably corresponded to previous cliques. The only one that was really alone was Tyrol.