ext_17566 ([identity profile] beccatoria.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] beccatoria 2009-04-04 09:00 am (UTC)

See I'm a little kinder. I take your point about the nuke, and yes, 2.5 was when we started this terrible habit of slump filler episodes that tried to be "deep" but were actually ridiculous (Black Market, Sacrifice, A Day in the Life, The Woman King).

But...that was never what bugged me so much. I'm more forgiving of a real aesthetic even if it crumbles under real scrutiny. I loved the New Caprica arc and I also loved the Final Four and Crossroads, and pretty much everything through Revelations.

In some ways, I'm lucky, because I got three and a half seasons of pretty much feeling the show was excellent. In other ways, it's so much more of a horrible shock to the system to watch it negate everything that was great about itself in such a tiny space of time. Blargh.

Also, awesome, you have read these things! I'm sure you know much more about it than me then. I've only read part of the book so far because, well, like I said, it's my mom's and I found it (and yes, started reading because of Hera! Though I also love this type of stuff.) I'll keep an eye out for "Out of Eden."

Just to be all nitpicky, that sentence should read "there was ONLY a male in the line of descent." i.e. A woman in a certain lineage either only had sons, or her daughters didn't survive to have female offspring of their own and pass on her mtDNA.

Okay, thanks for the correction.

But can I ask a question (to make sure I'm understanding correctly) because you've actually read about this! If that woman had sons and then those sons had daughters, that'd still be okay, right? Because those granddaughters would be getting their mtDNA from their maternal grandmother?

Similarly I wasn't aware it had to happen in the first generation? So in theory, Jane the Colonial could have a direct line of mother-daughter descent for six generations, but then that girl - her last matrilineal descendant, has only sons/no children at all?

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