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They had cheap and accurate FTL, but they didn't themselves establish additional sub-colonies all over everywhere? To say nothing of manned exploration and mapping missions in all directions, constantly active?

oh well. (If this gets explained after ep 3 I'll be fine with it.)

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[dougo.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately BSG is not the sort of show that holds up to that sort of scrutiny. Which is why I'll never like it as much as Firefly. But it's fun/compelling if you don't think too hard about it.

[the-gadgetman.livejournal.com]

Well, given we know little of BSG's timeline, we don't know the dispersal or founding dates of the 12 colonies. Perhaps most of them are offshoots from Caprica, which would explain why Caprica seems to be the center politically and culturally, at least so far.

And I gotta second the comment about Firefly. I grew to really like the show, but it has more than it's share of cringe-worthy moments. Most stuff involving spaceflight, for example, pops me right out of the story due to the implausability (2 passing spaceships taking several minutes to pass? yeah right....)

[jtroutman.livejournal.com]

well, they never said it was cheap or really that accurate. There was the 'redline' of known jump distances, and they explictly were going "beyond the redline" in terms of safe jumps and knowledge of the world.

i also get the impression that the back story of the society is one in stagnation, and a lack of drive to explore and innovate. And don't forget that the 40 years previous cylon war set them back a lot, and also severely limited their computer capabilities (from fear of infection by the cylons).

But all that aside, I do wish the universe and the motivations for all of the actions of the players were more fully thought out and cohesive. But I enjoy it very much as a character driven "war story" that pulls few punches, rathern than as a Sci-Fi show.

on a similar note, I recently read the Dragon Riders of Pern series again (for the first time since high school), and I found the overall belivability of the universe to be lacking. The world is nearly as big as Earth, yet has small groups of a few thousand people scatted here and there, with what has to be thousands of miles between them. And a total planet-wide population that could not be more than 50-100k people. I can't imagine how any trade and contact would occur with the population being so small, and the distances so large between settlements..