Battlestar Galactica - !!Spoilers!!

[Madame Adequate]

Man that episode was weird. Half of it was amazing touching genius that got me all choked up, a third of it was seriously badass action and tension, and the remaining portion was just wrong.

I don't know what the smurf with that abandoning all their resources idea. I don't even know what the smurf. Seriously? I mean, seriously? Sure, Baltar might know about farming, but the guys on the Tylium ship probably don't. What skills do the marines have except being marines? I'm sure they're going to regret that decision when Cottle runs out of medication instead of using the resources of this vast new world to make more of it.

I suppose that does account for how 38,000 people with that level of expertize and knowledge took 150,000 years to rebuild civilization; they didn't have any such expertize and knowledge and 37,500 of them died within a couple years.

That was the worst of it all, I seriously cannot BEGIN to get over the stupidity of that decision and the abjectly unrealistic handling of it. Lampkin was right, there would have been riots as soon as someone said "And how will we make clothing?" Ugh, so so annoyed at that.

The show really attempted to teach the wrong lesson, and it failed to do so because the actual aesop was pretty plain to see. The show's version was "If you use technology you will die" but the reality was "Technology can be dangerous if abused, but if treated with respect it can be your greatest ally". That should have been pretty clear from the fact that A) Half the skinjobs made peace with Humanity, B) The centurions went off to do their own thing, and C) It was the technology of the fleet which kept everyone alive at all.