BSG: Daybreak Motivational Posters

[beccatoria]

Okay so this week I've been totally without work which is irritating since I went through such angst to clarify my damn hours (I'm supposed to have three days a week), but they're shifting me between projects and the new one was supposed to be kicking off Wednesday except apparently not so I'm stuck with no work 'til Monday. Which isn't exactly horrific except I'm broke and could have done with the cash and am now in a weird interim am-I-on-the-dole-or-aren't-I? situation. But whatever...y'all aren't exactly interested in that.

What y'all are probably interested in is the fact that, driven by boredom, and the inability of my mind to quite comprehend the hilarious fail of the post-Earthfall Daybreak stuff, I have responded in the only sane way I can think of.














Yay!

Honestly I feel a little mean about the Leetopia one and the Agriculture one because everyone seems to agree that Farmer!Gaius was the most moving thing in the episode, and I'm one of three people on the internet who really didn't see Lee's ending as a total tragedy. I mean, the part where he got far more idealistic than smart and threw everything INTO THE SUN was a tragedy, sure. But look at him in that field! He's so happy! And kind of...free. Looking forward. Sure it would have been nice if that had happened with a metaphorical moving away from Kara and his Dad rather than them turning into invisible pigeons and necrophiliac hermits, but whatever, I WANTED TO HUGGLE HIM.

Ahem.

Redacted.

Comments

[raincitygirl.livejournal.com]

The real mitochondrial Eve (who is purely hypothetical. Her existence is logically inferred. We haven't found any convenient remains, because sad to say, planet Earth is not ACTUALLY a television show). I lost my train of thought. The real mitochondrial Eve is unique because of all the women alive at the time (and, granted, there was a massive population contraction approximately 140,000 or 150,000 years ago, so mitochondrial Eve was probably one of only a few thousand candidates), she had at least two daughters who:

a) survived to adulthood
b) had daughters of their own
c) migrated in different directions.

So let's say that mitochondrial Eve's eldest daughter was the adventurous type, and went north. Second daughter was more of a stay-at-home type, and stayed put in Africa. Subsequently, daughter #1 had several daughters, and all of them went in different directions (clearly, successful mtDNA transmission depends on very loose emotional bonds between sisters!). Hence the fact that everybody from Swedes to indigenous Australians can all be traced back to that woman in Africa whose daughters and granddaughters all had a terrible case of wanderlust. The lineage is much less likely to die out if the daughters, granddaughters, etc. live in different geographical areas, because if some calamity befalls one group (volcano, disease, whatever), there are still other candidates elsewhere. Spreading the risk, you might say. In other words, clearly, Hera Agathon's tendency to run away at every opportunity was part of what made her lineage so successful!