Also, may I say that getting rid of their technology made no sense to me AT ALL in BSG. What? Who would do that?
See, I'm willing to believe it. I think that it was a terrible idea and probably led to all of them dying within the next few years except for Hera (who was clearly adopted by the indigenous proto-humans; later her hardy half-cylon genes gave her descendants a distinct survival advantage). But I'm willing to believe that they thought it was a good idea for long enough to do it. I think they were all suffering acute PTSD from witnessing the near-total extinction of their own species and then spending the next few years desperately fleeing the killer robots, cooped up in their increasingly alarmingly rundown spaceships, eating processed algae and smelling engine grease. I can believe that in a moment of collective madness, they would decide that a truly fresh start was the only possible solution.
And besides, I bet Lee gave a really inspiring speech about it.
no subject
See, I'm willing to believe it. I think that it was a terrible idea and probably led to all of them dying within the next few years except for Hera (who was clearly adopted by the indigenous proto-humans; later her hardy half-cylon genes gave her descendants a distinct survival advantage). But I'm willing to believe that they thought it was a good idea for long enough to do it. I think they were all suffering acute PTSD from witnessing the near-total extinction of their own species and then spending the next few years desperately fleeing the killer robots, cooped up in their increasingly alarmingly rundown spaceships, eating processed algae and smelling engine grease. I can believe that in a moment of collective madness, they would decide that a truly fresh start was the only possible solution.
And besides, I bet Lee gave a really inspiring speech about it.