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   "Tim McGaughy"  wrote in message   
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   > Your Name wrote:   
   > > "Tim McGaughy"  wrote in message   
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   > >> 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.   
   > >> "There are those who believe that life here began out there..."   
   > >>   
   > >> Or something very close to that.   
   > >   
   > > That isn't anything to do with whether or not Glen Larson had worked out   
   > > what time period the Galactica would have reached Earth (if at all).   
   >   
   > Doesn't matter. In the original show, colonists are supposed to have   
   > arrived on Earth at some point in prehistory, and then we're apparently   
   > supposed to have lost all that high tech.   
   >   
   > In the new show, colonists arrive on Earth at some point in prehistory,   
   > and then dispose of all that high tech.   
   >   
   >   
   > Oh, wait. You're right, that's totally different.   
      
   In the proper show the Galactica (not the earlier 13th tribe!) does not   
   reach Earth in prehistory ... which is what the original person was saying.   
   Reading comprehension classes might help.  :-\   
      
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