Post of infinite hate

[bigscary]

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!

ANTI-ROBOT MONTAGE!

Comments

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I was sort of alone in the "WTF is with the anti-tech bias here?" while watching. I don't get how the Colonials have any evidence that "going native" is going to stop the cycle of build and decline. It seems to me that that's what they had on Kobol, on the Colonies, on Earth...

Technology is not inherently evil. Isn't that what the "good" Cylons have taught us? If we can accept the 2-6-8s into the new humanity, we can figure out how to use technology responsibly, goddamnit. I don't buy the "everything is different now" ending. Because it's not. It's either moralizing--"Don't be like that!"--or it's miraculously different because Ron Moore has had visions of the past (Thanks, Angels!) and dutifully taught us not to hate on robots. Or something.

[bigscary.livejournal.com]

Interestingly, there's not actual evidence that the new robots will not one day rise up, just the pessimist angel making the bet that it won't, for once. Arguably, all they did was delay the technological development required to create robots smart enough to get annoyed that they're robota.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

...to say nothing of the "acceptable risk" that the Centurions will never come back.

[wellgull.livejournal.com]

I dunno. If I were the Centurions, I'd get the FRAK out of there and go build an actual peaceful society somewhere else, with none of the ape-things.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

No, I agree. If I were the metal Cylons, I would totally go, "Gee, uh, this flesh-bot thing doesn't work so well, does it?"

[avram]

"Maybe we should suspend them all in a big virtual reality and use them as a power source."

Hey, that would actually explain why Colonial culture is so similar to our own, right down to minor details of military protocol.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

If I were the Centurions, I wouldn't even bother with that much. I can just picture them all congratulating themselves going, "Isn't it great that we don't have any stupid laws that make us have to preserve human life?" Then they all high five each other.

[avram]

Arguably, the distant descendants of the Colonials (in other words, we), lacking robots to enslave and kill, will instead just spend millennia enslaving and warring on each other.

[wellgull.livejournal.com]

Deus vult?