Re: Agreed. The ending is one of the worst conclusions to any work of fiction ever written.
dacole Send a noteboard - 08/06/2012 08:20:40 PM
The ending really was utterly horrendous. It was illogical, riven with plot holes, relied on weak and terrible characterisation and was inconsistent with everything the show had shown us over four years (such as no-one in the fleet being able to agree on anything, let alone quietly throwing away all of their technology, medicines, science, learning etc).
Then of course we had the writers' attempt to actually use real science in the show (after four years of not really bothering) with the mitochondrial eve stuff which they clearly did not even begin to understand and totally screwed up.
Then of course we had the writers' attempt to actually use real science in the show (after four years of not really bothering) with the mitochondrial eve stuff which they clearly did not even begin to understand and totally screwed up.
Hmmm...no I don't think the screwed up the eve stuff from what I read in the article at least (and I'm a biochemist) it was a daughter of her's that was supposed to be eve...not her as that would be scientifically incorrect. Like most (see my response above) you are missing the major Luddite strain that goes through much of sci-fi. Read some Ray Bradbury along with 20,000 leagues under the sea. Most sci-fi (especially the better more literary variant) does not see technology as a panicia far from it in fact.
The way it ended with the giving up of technology was planned from the beginning. (remember the original talked about us beginning out there?) maybe could have been handled better but in and of itself not a bad thing. Now the first part of your complaint is harder to refute.
I may need to stop rewatching Babylon 5...
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I have an autographed picture of Claudia Christian (Ivanova). Did you know she has nudes out there? *NM*
- 01/06/2012 11:51:21 PM
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(re)watch Battlestart Galactica instead
- 02/06/2012 08:51:08 AM
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I am doing that these days
- 04/06/2012 08:31:46 AM
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Re: I am doing that these days
- 06/06/2012 12:14:52 AM
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Agreed. The ending is one of the worst conclusions to any work of fiction ever written.
- 08/06/2012 12:48:58 AM
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Re: Agreed. The ending is one of the worst conclusions to any work of fiction ever written.
- 08/06/2012 08:20:40 PM
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I just saw the ending, watched the whole thing for the first time
- 09/06/2012 06:42:21 AM
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You're still in the dodgy part of the series. From early Season 2 onwards it improves immensely.
- 02/06/2012 04:08:09 PM
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I think the Minbari were suppose to be something like the honorable Samurai warrior
- 03/06/2012 08:30:13 AM
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