But I still think that Kara's dad knowing it and teaching it to her is very random when all the rest ties so neatly into the Earth-Cylon-Hybrid thing?
But it's not random, Daniel's her father! That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
They shot all their tech into the sun without any ways of rebuilding it. How many generations before this lost lore becomes secondary to practical survival? Throughout human history there have been dark ages and rennaisances where information is lost and regained and this was 150,000 years ago. Any evidence they did leave of complex settlements or tools, etc., would very, very likely simply be lost to time. Which is why I don't think that the whole anti-technology message was necessary in the first place.
Your comment here reminded me of a book I read years ago. Some sort of calamity befell the human race, disease most likely, and only a small percentage of the population survived. (No, this is not The Stand ;p) The narrator of the story was recounting how he tried to, first, rebuild a life for himself, essentially hooking up with the first woman he found, then tried to keep society going. At first, it worked. Cars were still on the road. Electricity and water were still being delivered to homes. But, as the years past, the machines that kept everything running broke down and it wasn't just that people didn't have the knowledge to fix them, they didn't seem to want to be bothered doing it. By the time of his death, literacy was even being lost as his grandchildren were barely able to read or write. So I can easily see all the knowledge the Cylons and Colonial have now being lost over the generations.
As for getting rid of the tech, I understand Lee's point. As I went into in my last post, I think he saw the probability of, not only the Centurions being used as labor to build their cities, but the potential of the indigenous, 'inferior' population being enslaved to service them and the cycle quickly being repeated.
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Date: 2009-03-22 10:00 pm (UTC)But it's not random, Daniel's her father! That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
They shot all their tech into the sun without any ways of rebuilding it. How many generations before this lost lore becomes secondary to practical survival? Throughout human history there have been dark ages and rennaisances where information is lost and regained and this was 150,000 years ago. Any evidence they did leave of complex settlements or tools, etc., would very, very likely simply be lost to time. Which is why I don't think that the whole anti-technology message was necessary in the first place.
Your comment here reminded me of a book I read years ago. Some sort of calamity befell the human race, disease most likely, and only a small percentage of the population survived. (No, this is not The Stand ;p) The narrator of the story was recounting how he tried to, first, rebuild a life for himself, essentially hooking up with the first woman he found, then tried to keep society going. At first, it worked. Cars were still on the road. Electricity and water were still being delivered to homes. But, as the years past, the machines that kept everything running broke down and it wasn't just that people didn't have the knowledge to fix them, they didn't seem to want to be bothered doing it. By the time of his death, literacy was even being lost as his grandchildren were barely able to read or write. So I can easily see all the knowledge the Cylons and Colonial have now being lost over the generations.
As for getting rid of the tech, I understand Lee's point. As I went into in my last post, I think he saw the probability of, not only the Centurions being used as labor to build their cities, but the potential of the indigenous, 'inferior' population being enslaved to service them and the cycle quickly being repeated.