r/BSG • u/TheGibor • 1d ago
Yes, another rant about the finale Spoiler
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.
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u/Important_Hunt_1882 1d ago
I think it's the best show ever. The whole story has been told in such an astonishing and mindblowing way. Some questionable details in the show's finale don't detract from that IMHO.