Ok, I watched The Grand Finally (you read that right) of BSG this weekend, and re-watched it. First of all, it was pretty formulaic for the genre. The "Huge Battle Followed by Epilogue to Explain what happened to the characters" formula was used in Deep Space Nine, Babylon 5, Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis. Probably some other shows, too. And, WA Book 12 will be set up along those lines. There will be a battle. There will be an epiloque, of sorts. The epilogue I've already written.
But I'm not going in for any of that frakkin' hippy "Let's give up our technology, so we can get back to nature, and live in harmony, and that will free us from the cycle of violence." Bull. Crap. Don't *even* get me started on the futility of agriculture 150,000 years ago. Pretty much everyone in the fleet would be dead of disease and starvation within five months. If they give up the technology, if they give up the knowledge, the give up the lesson. The theme of BSG was all about "All of this has happened before, all of this will happen again." And I think, WA is more like, "None of this has ever happened before, everything we learn, we take with us."
So, the survivors of the aforementioned battle in Book 12 are not going to be turning their backs on technology, knowledge, religion or history, but will see them as the building blocks of the next human civilization. Because the hippies are just wrong when they imagine primitive, pre-industrial life as a sort of idyll.
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Amen! I loved the show, but the ending kinda made me say, what the hell? I meen honestly, sending your ships into the sun?!?! Well keep up the great writeing. I love your books so far. Great stuff!
Love your work. When can we expect book 10?
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