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   Joetheone to traRvEsky@hotmMOVEail.com   
   Re: When was the plot finalised?   
   13 Sep 10 11:34:06   
   
   From: joetheone@dontchabespaminme.com   
      
   "RT"  wrote in message   
   news:4C8D1031.A62ABBE4@hotmMOVEail.com...   
   > Joetheone wrote:   
   >>   
   >> "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.   
   >> >   
   >> So when some shepherd boy stumbles on a cave (Or, I suppose, a receding   
   >> glacier uncovers the cave) containing an impossibly old rotary phone,   
   >> next   
   >> to a phone book (or a catalogue of Dylan lyrics) with the corners cut off   
   >> the pages and a spilled bottle of some unkown alcoholic beverage, with   
   >> skidmarks on the cave wall...   
   >   
   > Ebay!   
      
   Slap a current pic of Bobbie on the cover and nobody will doubt it's   
   antiquity.   
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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