No.
They just had to put it behind them. Like they said, "Everyone feels good about starting with a blank slate."
What they had to do was leave behind their society's ingrained fear of the Cylons. We've seen it this season, with the mutiny: they were just too used to hating and fearing each other. Technology didn't cause that, the war, the destruction of the colonies, and the relentless pursuit, betrayal, and terror of the last four years caused it.
The only way to break out of that cycle is to forget that it happened, and any attempt to immediately rebuild a high-tech society would make that impossible. By doing this, they're allowing time to wear it down. Let it become half-remembered stories told by your grandparents, and finally nothing more than myth, if even that.
The end is not a "Oh, look, the humans are about to start the cycle again", it's "Oh, look. The humans are where they were when the cycle started. But they've got a damn good chance of not going the same way this time."
Like Lee said. "All of this has happened before. But it doesn't have to happen again."
Personally, I hate the 'noble savage' concept, vehemently and totally. But I'm not going to condemn them for choosing it here.
And, besides. What's the one element of the original show that they've consciously avoided addressing all along? The 'ancient astronauts' bit. Could you possibly see any way they could have fit that in, with a Colonial society as thoroughly human as what arrived at Earth, without going that route?
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Sucrose Octanitrate.
Proof positive that with sufficient motivation, you can make anything explode.
They just had to put it behind them. Like they said, "Everyone feels good about starting with a blank slate."
What they had to do was leave behind their society's ingrained fear of the Cylons. We've seen it this season, with the mutiny: they were just too used to hating and fearing each other. Technology didn't cause that, the war, the destruction of the colonies, and the relentless pursuit, betrayal, and terror of the last four years caused it.
The only way to break out of that cycle is to forget that it happened, and any attempt to immediately rebuild a high-tech society would make that impossible. By doing this, they're allowing time to wear it down. Let it become half-remembered stories told by your grandparents, and finally nothing more than myth, if even that.
The end is not a "Oh, look, the humans are about to start the cycle again", it's "Oh, look. The humans are where they were when the cycle started. But they've got a damn good chance of not going the same way this time."
Like Lee said. "All of this has happened before. But it doesn't have to happen again."
Personally, I hate the 'noble savage' concept, vehemently and totally. But I'm not going to condemn them for choosing it here.
And, besides. What's the one element of the original show that they've consciously avoided addressing all along? The 'ancient astronauts' bit. Could you possibly see any way they could have fit that in, with a Colonial society as thoroughly human as what arrived at Earth, without going that route?
--
Sucrose Octanitrate.
Proof positive that with sufficient motivation, you can make anything explode.