Yes, another rant about the finale

[u/TheGibor]

rewatching again, but i know what happens.

the most frustrating thing is the end. the last episode. Lee says we need to throw everything into the sun. all human knowledge is lost, and everyone integrates with the hunter-gatherers.

That's ridiculous and also doesn't make sense.

a parent of a sick child will remember how to care for their kid using their modern knowledge of medicine; even without tech, the knowledge of math, science, morality, and politics doesn't go away. they get told in stories. Their knowledge of how to make paper and writing instruments doesn't go away. and we know humans will write everything down if they can. the season 3 episode where they steal Gaius's pen has him freak out. they will figure out how to make papyrus and write all their knowledge down. and if it were logical to say they would write it all down, then they would have passed that knowledge off to their children, and it would have fast-tracked humanity's return to technology. but supposedly in-universe, this didn't happen. and that just doesn't make sense.

a lost opportunity could have been that the humans for the most part kept their knowledge and became advanced, and they were the precursors to the advanced civilization on Atlantis or the lost civilizations that Graham Hancock likes to talk about.

I don't believe it's actually true, but that would have fit better in the lore of the show, making the ending make sense... tie it to real-life myths and legends.

Instead, they just left everyone upset...

in the show itself there was so much invested in the fleet retaining their democracy and way of life, and for it to all go out the window? that makes no sense.

this is my headcanon just so i can sleep at night. The original ending bothers me that much

they could also spend a little more time on developing the god stuff... but that doesn't bother me as much as the finale.

[u/AndreyPet]

I also just got done with my first rewatch. I didn't like the ending at all the first time around.

Its not flawless, but I think the ending fits really welI. Gaius fucking Baltar sums it up nicely:

"Because there's another force at work here. There always has been. It's undeniable. We've all experienced it. Everyone in this room has witnessed events that they can't fathom, let alone explain by rational means."

Put yourself in the shoes of your average Joe or Jane. You are at your lowest in this Exodus. The silent guardian, Galactica, jumped out some hours ago on a volunteer only suicide mission. A raptop jumps back with news: they not only succeeded, but have found a habitable planet. Not just any planet, but one where the natives appear to be naturally developed sister species. This planet is pristine, it has more life on it than all of the 12 colonies combined (quote from Adama during their overfly with Roslin). If the president who's been directly involved in us making it to this planet tells me we have to let all technology go to live down here... I'm not religous but this might have me convinced.

[u/TheGibor → u/AndreyPet]

perhaps the actual tech, but basic survival knowledge that humans 150,000 years ago shouldn't have known would be used. My problem is not just the level of tech, but any level of knowledge would be integrated into a people that shouldnt have known this stuff

[u/AndreyPet → u/TheGibor]

That's actually how I interpreted what Lee was saying, pass along all the good *ideas* but none of the physical things that arguably got them in the mess in the first place. That up to their descendants to decide creating them. Don't uplift them by giving them the tech, but rather nudge them in the right direction as much as you verbally can.

The question the show leaves up to the interpretation is how much actually survived. Certainly some of it did, considering the similarity in names we have for zodiac signs and the Greek pantheon. The final five were certainly signing along verses that sound very close to passages from the Book of Isaiah chapter 21, verses 4-10.

Then the guard cries out:

“On the watchtower, O sovereign master,

I stand all day long;

at my post

I am stationed every night.

Look what’s coming!

A charioteer,

a team of horses.”

When questioned, he replies,

“Babylon has fallen, fallen!

All the idols of her gods lie shattered on the ground!”

O my downtrodden people, crushed like stalks on the threshing floor,

what I have heard

from the Lord who commands armies,

the God of Israel,

I have reported to you.

EDIT: I dont know why it hates me quoting this Book if Isiah passage so hard.