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   David Milligan to traRvEsky@hotmMOVEail.com   
   Re: When was the plot finalised?   
   07 Sep 10 20:21:37   
   
   From: daviderl31@yahoo.com   
      
   "RT"  wrote in message   
   news:4C8441B9.515E37CF@hotmMOVEail.com...   
   > Roland Schultz wrote:   
   >> "Tim McGaughy"  wrote in message   
   >> > 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.   
   >>   
   >>         After 150,000 years I would imagine just about any of their   
   >> artifiacts (for example, Adama's Raptor) would have rusted away, or been   
   >> buried, or maybe ground into nothing by glaciers, or etc., etc.   
   >   
   > Theirs was a technology more advanced than our own. Probably had alloys,   
   > synthetics   
   > etc that will last far longer than anything of our own. Plus, artifacts   
   > can   
   > leave indirect traces. That's how archaelogy is done.   
   >   
           Maybe they're buried under a glacier somewhere, or covered with tons   
   of lava at the bottom of some sea.   
      
   >> > I see it as them being way too faithful to a piece of trash original   
   >> > series that worshipped Von Daniken.   
      
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