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[nilchance]

I had a privilege moment and missed the colonial themes + the sexist themes of BSG's finale, BUT I'm wondering if anybody else thought, when they decided to abandon the tech and "go native", that chronically ill or disabled or older people were SOL? I mean: psych medication. Wheelchairs. Insulin. All the people wounded during the crash and the battle. They basically left Helo to limp after them like a wounded gazelle, ffs.

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[lomer.livejournal.com]

Yeah that seemed like a poor decision. I understand the whole idea of "fresh start!" but when you only have 30,000 people... maybe it's a bad idea to potentially have half of them die off in a bad winter.

[nilchance.livejournal.com]

Hey, maybe they left the whiteboard of population count behind, too.

[http://users.livejournal.com/taltos_/]

To be honest with you, the entire THING left me scratching my head.

[lomer.livejournal.com]

I spent half of the finale being really grumpy, but then Sam was going to drive the Galactica into the sun and I started crying. Once you get me to cry, you've won me over. Who cares about logic when you've got snot and tears all over your face? I've watched the show since the mini-series so I'll admit I gave it a pass on some stuff I probably wouldn't usually. But I really wanted to LIKE the ending, so I tried to let the illogical stupid annoying parts slide over me and focus on the parts I DID like.

[hederahelix.livejournal.com]

Well, I didn't think of that, so apparently privilege moments were the order of the day--there are plenty to go around.

(I also just want to say: I am now forever going to think of the phrase wounded gazelle when I think of Helo in the final scenes, thanks to you.)

But it's reason #612 that the whole benevolent colonialism is a problem, since Lee's idealistic "give them the best, ignore the worst" schtick leaves people with chronic illnesses and/or disabled people and/or older people out in the cold. I already had worries that the ending was basically a slow form of suicide in many ways, but this just enhances that belief (except for the part where it's not just a slow suicide, it's a slow suicide that is faster for some than for others, which clearly makes it even worse.)

[mistress-tien.livejournal.com]

Yep, I'm thinking "you're willing to give up flush toilets, hot water, medicine, civilization, and heat for fresh air?" Are you frakking kidding?

But, other than that (and the whole Starbuck disappearing thing), I enjoyed the final ep. I don't think they could have done it any better with the outcome they wanted (the 150,000 years in the future thing).

[bkm5191.livejournal.com]

I think they would have had earths first homeless and first people leaving out of their car. (spaceship, whatever).

[livrelibre.livejournal.com]

Sadly, I missed all that. But upon reflection, it really doesn't make any sense and is unfair besides.

[sleeping-dragon.livejournal.com]

I chose to believe that since everyone was dividing into groups anyway, those who required (physically or emotionally, by which I mean "can't give them up" - I'm in the 'mental illness has a physical basis' camp, so that'd be covered under physically) the necessities of modern life built a little modern colony in an area likely to be covered with (pick one: ice, volcanic ash, ocean water, your choice here) at some later date. And I thought Helo looked pretty good for someone whose bullet wound should have been fatal (at least it was darned close to the femoral artery).