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So the grand finale of the show is a handful of white guys, mostly old, looking at the "Natives" and joking about breeding with them. And again, when the decision is made to abandon their physical culture, technology, and displace the current inhabitants of ReallyEarthThisTime, it's still a mostly male planning-group. Yes, tell me again how this show is arguably non-racist, non-misogynistic, or non-ageist.
Oh, and as to the interminable denouement? Fuck it. It's a litany of the bad choices everyone made before the apocalypse, and it's not explanatory, just embarrassing -- for the characters, the actors, and the creators.
I'm honestly trying to come up with my usual post-BSG-I-actually-watched attempt-at-comedy post, but nothin' doin'. The thing fucking makes fun of itself, and what little isn't second-to-second self-parody is just so infuriating as film making and politics that I can't seem to bring myself to engage with it in any mode but angry disdain.
As it actually ends, the one ray of hope is that given the hominids we saw, they're SO FAR BEFORE the agricultural revolution that they obviously all die out within a decade or two, century at most, and the non-invading hominids actually get their chance, rather than being replaced by obnoxious space-perverts.
OK ACTUAL ENDING IS AN ANTI-ROBOT MONTAGE!
Oh, and as to the interminable denouement? Fuck it. It's a litany of the bad choices everyone made before the apocalypse, and it's not explanatory, just embarrassing -- for the characters, the actors, and the creators.
I'm honestly trying to come up with my usual post-BSG-I-actually-watched attempt-at-comedy post, but nothin' doin'. The thing fucking makes fun of itself, and what little isn't second-to-second self-parody is just so infuriating as film making and politics that I can't seem to bring myself to engage with it in any mode but angry disdain.
As it actually ends, the one ray of hope is that given the hominids we saw, they're SO FAR BEFORE the agricultural revolution that they obviously all die out within a decade or two, century at most, and the non-invading hominids actually get their chance, rather than being replaced by obnoxious space-perverts.
OK ACTUAL ENDING IS AN ANTI-ROBOT MONTAGE!
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And for the record, my best friend is Asian, I've grown up terribly sensitive to anti-Asian prejudice, and I can assure you that, given that they're one of the few ethnic groups it's still perfectly acceptable to mock in jest (i.e. "Me love you long time" uttered by every stupid fucker who sees a hot Asian girl), that is NOT "almost white."
Respectfully, I suggest you might want to take a step back from time to time and refrain from picking every detail of a story apart. It really gets in the way of enjoying anything. Ever.
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My issue is that claims of BSG showing a post-racist, post-sexist society are undercut by persistent artifacts from the writers' own society.
It's not that I cannot love! or something; racist elements in Tolkien (ferex) don't prevent me from very much enjoying The Lord of the Rings. BSG just made claims about its society that the writers have (probably unintentionally) subverted by the dramatic choices that were made--choices which were not accidental, nor necessary, but are significant.