davidsyes's Journal: Wagon Train To/From the Stars...

Funny:

http://entertainment.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1336081&op=Reply&threshold=1&commentsort=0&mode=nested&pid=29063557

But, my comments:

Cleverly circular, and Circularly Clever (as in funny, not as in derisive).

I think it would be awesome to find were the descendants of a "lost, once-warring" civilization. It might explain some of the random scientific breakthroughs and claims of fuel improvements. Our current government and corporate attitudes toward money would explain the mysterious deaths or disappearances of the "advancing" persons, their claims and maybe some of the tech-- real or fraudulent.

On the other side of "interesting" (but not necessarily "awesome"), would be that, anthropologically, if proto-humans here WERE indeed mixed by human(oids) who look more like us than the "ape man" creatures we saw trekking along in the Serengeti, then some of those Galacticans/fugitives/survivors must've gotten tired of sexing it up with own kind. Might, though, explain the hardy (and sometimes twisted) immune system, HIV/AIDS, herpes, and a slew of other things that afflicted humans (even the one (Franklin? "Mr. Lightning Catheter"?) who though funneling lightning down a kite string to his key would blast away his STD or, as my high school chem instructor termed it "his woes and ails", hehehe).

But, as for the warring, (analogous to the current Israel/Palestine/Cylon/Rebels conflicts), CyTigh put it kind of nicely (paraphrasing): "Go back far enough, you can blame the first pond scum crawling out of the mud for everything wrong with humanity."

Now, can anybody tie in "The Gods Must Be Crazy", and "Gorillas in the Mist"? (That might be kewl...)

(I don't know of the Mormon influence will survive into the finished product. It'll probably be veiled, or altered some way to try to be intriguing the way "District 9" will be to some watchers. Well, unless it's nearly-fully-funded by Mormons who really want their message on-screen)

(As usual, posted with "No Subscriber Bonus".)

(Since i rarely mod, and and since you're at 5, Funny and using any mod for you would have no higher effect, and since i'm at "TERRIBLE" karma as of yesterday (by-product of my emotional flaming toward the mod-bombing (and revisionist down-scorings) i've been getting the past few weeks), this is one of the posts i found worth using one of my 2-allowed-per-24-hours posts, especially since though a Trek fan since 1968 (don't forget Trek was Gene Roddenberry's "Wagon Train [TO} the Stars...), for me, for now, BSG reimagined is far more human-storied, gritty, emotionally-roller-coasting, and politically current, and, i dare say, may have had a subtle role in the outcome of the demise of the prior US administration-- just wait 5 or 10 years... some will say it reflected then-current events, while others will probably successfully make the case that (science) fiction can definitely alter real-world politics.)

Well, so much for forgetting that 24 hours haven't yet passed by...