I thought the final Earth part was lame on several levels. Probably the thing that annoyed me the most was that the people they found were "tribal, without language". What is that supposed to mean? How is a tribe possible without language? How can they decide that they will interbreed with these people to continue the human/cylon race without having made first contact? Don't the indigenous people have a say in the matter? Oh, right! They don't have language - "no means no" but pre-verbal tribal people can't say no.
Also, they were all talking about agriculture, building houses, and hunting. Where did all these people raised in cities learn these skills? Yeah, something tells me Lee Adama's talk of doing the least possible amount of work tells us what would happen over the next few hundred years or more - enslave and rape the preverbal tribes, and sit back while they build houses and gather food.
I guess if it's all supposed to be our prehistory, it meshes well with both primitivist and christian mythology - the fall from grace caused by knowing forbidden knowledge, resulting in the stratification of society, capitalism, oppression and sin.
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Date: 2009-03-22 03:32 pm (UTC)Also, they were all talking about agriculture, building houses, and hunting. Where did all these people raised in cities learn these skills? Yeah, something tells me Lee Adama's talk of doing the least possible amount of work tells us what would happen over the next few hundred years or more - enslave and rape the preverbal tribes, and sit back while they build houses and gather food.
I guess if it's all supposed to be our prehistory, it meshes well with both primitivist and christian mythology - the fall from grace caused by knowing forbidden knowledge, resulting in the stratification of society, capitalism, oppression and sin.