I didn't see it that way. The decision was to break the cycle. Consider that every single other time a ragtag group of refugees fled to a distant world and kept their technology - the Thirteenth Tribe from Kobol to Original Earth, the Twelve from Kobol to the Colonies - within 2000 years they'd reinvented the wheel and killed themselves. By rebuilding completely from scratch, humanity (hybridity?) has outlasted the original cycle by two orders of magnitude. I'd call that a victory. Now if we can invent artificial sapience and not immediately put it to work as slave labor, we've done it, the cycle's broken.
(I was actually kinda hoping that would be part of the newsbite in the coda. Mitochondrial Hera was nice, but I was hoping for a "new Cylon" announcement showing that while all this has happened before, it didn't happen again. Oh well.)
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(I was actually kinda hoping that would be part of the newsbite in the coda. Mitochondrial Hera was nice, but I was hoping for a "new Cylon" announcement showing that while all this has happened before, it didn't happen again. Oh well.)
Mr. Fnord interdimensional man of mystery
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"I. Drink. Your. NERDRAGE!"