Ron Posts, Finale Rating Options

[MrsRon]

Ron logged on last night and posted these responses to questions in the Learning from mistakes thread.
Thought I'd put them in their own thread.


QUOTE (NotABaltar @ Mar 24 2009, 06:31 PM)
Yah, I'm not suggesting that I am convinced by the evidence presented for global warming. I'm just saying it strikes me that RDM chose an ending which closely parellels the rhetoric and proposed solutions for global warming. . . like maybe it's fair to describe the finale as "ripped from the headlines" of many science journals, but with the threat slightly modified.

ETA: I'm bascially saying that it's presently chic to blame human technology on the demise of the species and it's also chic to suggest that we dispose of our technology to solve the problem, and what do you know, the finale takes the chic way out.


RDM here (Mr. Terry to those of you in the know) posting under Terry's screen name to make this easier.

Thought I'd surf in for a while tonight and add a few of my thoughts to your postings.

In response to the above, and a few other postings I've seen, I wanted to say that I really wasn't trying to make some grand anti-technological statement at the end of BSG. Far from holding Luddite tendencies, I'm actually quite taken by techno-whiz-bang and tend to stop in stores and stare at all kinds of devices that go ping. The end of Galactica's story had to do with human choices, human ethics, and the human heart. The conversation between Head Six and Head Baltar was a discussion of what mankind would choose to do this time through the cycle of time that had repeated itself several times already -- that is, would they follow a similar path of destruction, escape, rebirth, etc. There's nothing in the scene to imply that technology is, in and of itself, an evil or pernicious force in our world or any world, rather that man's relationship with his own technology had led to ruin because of the choices and decisions made once that technology reached a certain advanced state of affairs.

I should also add that there's a part of me that is loath to really analyze my own work on this level because like any piece of art it can be interpreted in various ways by the audience and not necessarily have any relationship to the intent of the artist.

In other words, your mileage may vary.