Thanks for posting this, I’d quote but there is just too much I want to express my agreement too, especially the first paragraph. I’m slowly trying to push the horrible K/L non- ending to the back of my mind and mostly succeeding, although I am quite shocked that RDM apparantly saw the whole relationship as them inappropriately having the hots for each other and otherwise mostly one-sided affection on Lee’s side, not to mention all this `they just weren’t meant for each other´ business, which is so cheap and simplistic storytelling and robs them of all complexity. But since Lee seemed strangely okay, I have this image of him finally being free of all this pressure to be something he’s not and his constant pull and push treatment from Kara (and Adama’s ego). As a Lee fan it’s still hard to get over the fact that his love was never fully reciprocated, but since it would never have worked out according to RDM, at least he can move on now (well until he starves or freezes to death). It also helped that I fastforwarded through the K/S scene. I just wish they had left the flashback scenes of K/L out, they didn't make any valid point about the ship, they should have stayed consistent with the muted way they treated K/L in the finale.
However, the preachy nature of the episode was insulting to the audience’s intelligence, and I’m finding it hard to accept this whole back to the roots, technology, science and cities are evil thing from people who live in L.A. and constantly fly across the country, thereby polluting the planet. I want to know, if RDM takes the bike to get to work… And those seminars that he assumes will be held about BSG, I wonder what will be said about this implication that the fleet (with their decidedly American, Western European superiority) brought culture(and religion) to the primitive world. Not to mention not one female human name character survived and Kara’ending was a complete cop-out (why did she die in the first place?).
I understand what you’re saying about it being like the painful, disappointing end of a relationship, where nothing became of the promise of the beginning. Although for me it’s also a bit like I’m slowly overcoming an addiction, that wasn’t doing anything good for me for a long time, so I guess it’s good to leave that behind (but I will never fully recover from my Lee obsession!)
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However, the preachy nature of the episode was insulting to the audience’s intelligence, and I’m finding it hard to accept this whole back to the roots, technology, science and cities are evil thing from people who live in L.A. and constantly fly across the country, thereby polluting the planet. I want to know, if RDM takes the bike to get to work… And those seminars that he assumes will be held about BSG, I wonder what will be said about this implication that the fleet (with their decidedly American, Western European superiority) brought culture(and religion) to the primitive world. Not to mention not one female human name character survived and Kara’ending was a complete cop-out (why did she die in the first place?).
I understand what you’re saying about it being like the painful, disappointing end of a relationship, where nothing became of the promise of the beginning. Although for me it’s also a bit like I’m slowly overcoming an addiction, that wasn’t doing anything good for me for a long time, so I guess it’s good to leave that behind (but I will never fully recover from my Lee obsession!)