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Post of infinite hate
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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This is a problem because it implies that feminism is some kind of luxury, that works in a post-industrial world, but in extremis, it's back to rigid gender roles, or at least "masculine acts are effective, feminine acts are to be mocked".
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Absolutely agreed.
the fleet is obviously less than feminist
I'm not sure I agree with this, at least as per the fleet at the outset of the series. The fleet is clearly masculinized, but I'm not recalling clear evidence of the fleet being anti-feminist.
I think the show's biggest problems with the portrayal of women aren't, however, due to some sort of structures within the society that it depicts, but rather in the depiction itself and the characters the writers created.