The future is always better than the past. Even Voltaire knew that, and he invented this trite shtick. If you can't believe that -- if you fear the future you're creating, for yourself -- you're done. Because there's no point: end it today, or stop bitching and apply yourself to making it better, because essentially the implication is that nobody knows how to save the world, but you, and nobody but yours will ever figure it out. That is dead. That is death.
It was a contradictory ending, no? Both within and outside of the story. AngelGaius bemoans the modern world of Times Square, while AngelSix counters: yeah, but maybe they won't fuck it up this time? And then the montage of RobotFutureDoom....
So. Civilization's (of the metal or fleshy sort) rush for the new new tech outpaces our emotional and big-picture understanding of that tech bringing Armageddon, and all-around badness. Certainly we've made our mistakes, Mr. Moore, but that tech also brings the pretty, pretty explosions on your teevee show and games on your iPhone. Would you like to give that up, along with your cigarettes and scotch, just to till the soil and be one with the earth and God? I thought not. We all have those moments where we're at the end of our respective ropes and want a do-over. But that Never. Happens. The show has been about a fleet that, despite incredible hardships and guilt and trauma, puts its head down and barrels through as they learn and fight for survival. Far from perfect, but noble to the end. But now they should be passive fatalists, munching on dandelions and awaiting movement from the hand of God? For a show that had prided itself on being brutally honest about human nature and suffering, that whatever, here's a pat-on-the-back ending does feel disingenuous.
Fuck, G, I woulda killed the bitch too, if I found out she shot the wife I didn't really love all that much out the airlock. Go on with your Highlander-self and be at peace! Wait, *I* killed my wife... oh well, bygones!
(We never found out what Tory's deal was and that did piss me off. Huge loose thread there, writers.)
Finding Earth is fine, but why not go outside our known history? Why ditch all the ships and redo the hunter/gatherer business? Why not integrate, learn, and grow and show an alternate-Earth story?
On a lighter note: did anyone else see the tribal Earthlings and wonder if one of them was the First Slayer? Crossover!
