I can't even deal with how much I hated that, the show finally marginalized her entirely and destroyed Chief for me all in one moment and its aftermath.
I thought earlier today that I had reached some kind of peace with this as the ending by just forgetting/ignoring/rationalizing a lot of the awful bits. But too many of my constructed readings keep falling down the more I think about it. Even the character bits I enjoyed often go right along with thematic fail.
The "we are all Cybrids" thing is one of the few aspects that works for me, and I'm loving your notion about how this is one one iterations of many of these cycles of time for humanity. It makes everything more blended in a way the show failed to address. And makes us pretty frakkin' screwed in exactly the same way.
Despite the above statement on us as hybrids, I'm still not sold on the notion that it needed to be literally about us so explicitly. Which I'm aware is crazy because it seems like the plan had always been to end up in our past, but I don't think any of the metaphor falls down if they, you know, don't get to our Earth. Which is one of the reasons I hate the ending sequence still. Because it is about us, but I'm not entirely sure what they're trying to tell us about ourselves right now and I suspect I have issues with it.
For all their grand plans, and their ultimate contribution to the genetic pool, they don't build civilization. They fade.
This? Is why I think that it was actually a really depressing ending, not the hopeful note they may have intended. I dislike the notion of civilizing the noble savage, but having them disappear so completely just makes me sad.
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Date: 2009-03-22 06:06 am (UTC)I can't even deal with how much I hated that, the show finally marginalized her entirely and destroyed Chief for me all in one moment and its aftermath.
I thought earlier today that I had reached some kind of peace with this as the ending by just forgetting/ignoring/rationalizing a lot of the awful bits. But too many of my constructed readings keep falling down the more I think about it. Even the character bits I enjoyed often go right along
with thematic fail.
The "we are all Cybrids" thing is one of the few aspects that works for me, and I'm loving your notion about how this is one one iterations of many of these cycles of time for humanity. It makes everything more blended in a way the show failed to address. And makes us pretty frakkin' screwed in exactly the same way.
Despite the above statement on us as hybrids, I'm still not sold on the notion that it needed to be literally about us so explicitly. Which I'm aware is crazy because it seems like the plan had always been to end up in our past, but I don't think any of the metaphor falls down if they, you know, don't get to our Earth. Which is one of the reasons I hate the ending sequence still. Because it is about us, but I'm not entirely sure what they're trying to tell us about ourselves right now and I suspect I have issues with it.
For all their grand plans, and their ultimate contribution to the genetic pool, they don't build civilization. They fade.
This? Is why I think that it was actually a really depressing ending, not the hopeful note they may have intended. I dislike the notion of civilizing the noble savage, but having them disappear so completely just makes me sad.
And I want to adopt a Neanderbrid now.