Battlestar Galactica

It's been several months since the final episode of Battlestar Galactica aired. In it, the hardy Colonial fleet of human refugees, fleeing the robotic Cylon menace they created, wins a major battle, discovers Earth and lives happily ever after.

Well, almost. They discover Earth (approximately 150,000 years in our past) and decide, in the words of one character, to "leave their baggage behind" by sending their fleet and all of their technology into the sun. It's a happy ending with some sad moments as characters die or vanish into thin air (it's a long story) and people set out to build a new home with the stone-age natives that they've discovered they can interbreed with.

I wonder how long it took them to realize that this new paradise world did not have any toilet paper.

I wonder how long it took before they realized how hard it was going to be to grow food. (These are people who by now have lived in spaceships for years.)

It probably didn't take long to find out that the natives were a lot handier with a spear than they were.

My guess is that in less than a year the adults were dead and the surviving children were taken in by the neanderthals.

So while the show was portrayed as having a happy ending, in fact it did not: the military failed in their struggle to preserve the lives of the 40,000 or so civilians that survived the Cylon genocide. Their society collectively gave up and died.

I'm not sure what is worse: that, or the fact that it's portrayed as a good thing.