BSG: Daybreak Motivational Posters
Apr. 2nd, 2009 03:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccatoriaOkay 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.
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.
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being long-winded here
Date: 2009-04-03 11:04 pm (UTC)It doesn't mean no one else from that era has living descendants, just that at some point in the intervening 150,000 years, there was a male in the line of descent and so their unique mitochondrial DNA was lost because you always get that from your mom.
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.
HOWEVER, the tag at the end of show explains Mitochondrial Eve incorrectly anyway (saying she's simply our most recent common ancestor, rather than matrilineal common ancestor; our most recent common ancestor probably lived only a few thousand years ago). So LORDS ONLY KNOW what RDM meant it to imply. :/
Yeah, trying to figure out what RDM meant to put in a script as opposed to what the viewers actually saw is an exercise in deep frustration. Generally speaking, I go for the simplest explanation (mostly because even in its heyday, subtlety was never this show's strongest point). Also, given all the other stuff that's happened over the past few years on the show, where fans desperately tried to find an alternate explanation to the obvious one, only to find out from a podcast that the obvious (though very stupid) explanation was exactly what RDM had intended.
Where was I? Given RDM's track record, I'm assuming that either he didn't realise that agriculture was a very recent invention, or he figured the fans wouldn't check up on it and would take it at face value.