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From: your.name@isp.com
In article <4C1AC54C.3040304@earthlink.net>, newsgroups@thejoekorner.com wrote:
> Your Name wrote:
> > "Tim McGaughy" wrote in message
> > news:2Y6dnWaFXN2qyYfRnZ2dnUVZ_tKdnZ2d@posted.toastnet...
> >
> >> QN wrote:
> >>
> >>> I hated the luddite ending.
> >>>
> >>> IMHO they looked for ways to cut the budget and pooped on the script to
> >>>
> > make
> >
> >>> it fit.
> >>>
> >> While I dislike it, too, it ends the way the original series was
> >> heading: They find Earth. And the only way to keep us in present day
> >> from realizing what happened back in prehistory was to dump all the tech
> >> and be prehistoric.
> >>
> >> I see it as them being way too faithful to a piece of trash original
> >> series that worshipped Von Daniken.
> >>
> >
> > The original, and real, Battlestar Galactica never reached Earth and as far
> > as I know there was never any indication anywhere of what Glen Larson may
or
> > may not have had in mind for future seasons.
> >
> > The garbagised Galactica 1980 did of course reach Earth and it was "present
> > day" Earth (they also travelled back in time to World War II).
>
> In the last scene of the last episode, Starbuck (the male) and Apollo
> with their respective girlfriends are in an unused observation dome.
> Just after they leave, the radio receives,
> "Tranquility base here, the Eagle has landed."
>
> The second season might have been great.
True, I'd forgotten about that. Of course we have no idea how far away
from Earth they were when they received that message. It could easily have
been many decades after the moon landing when / if the Galactica actually
reached Earth.
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