BSG Guess...

[kickaha]

Can't find if I posted this before or not, so here goes...



The crew found Earth, the home of the Thirteenth Tribe, and it was dead. We now have a collection of humans and Cylons, who can interbreed, on the planet of the Thirteenth Tribe. They *are* the Thirteenth Tribe.

It's cyclical. All this has happened before, and will happen again, remember?

Pick a point in time - there's just Earth, with a newly space faring civilization. They find the 12 closest planets suitable for human colonization, and do so. They name the planets after mythical figures of their ancient astronomical guesses. Earth and the colonies fall apart, Earth goes boom. Earth becomes a myth, just like the 12 colonies became myth in the Zodiac. The Thirteenth Tribe myth appears, as a natural desire for hope and salvation. The colonies thrive, and then they go boom via some cataclysm. Now Earth and the Thirteenth Tribe are searched for... and Earth is found. And now the survivors that found Earth become the Thirteenth Tribe, and repopulate Earth, and the 12 colonies become myth... starting the whole thing over again.

I don't think they're necessarily going to answer if BSG happens in our past, or our future. ("All Along the Watchtower" certainly says future, but I wouldn't be surprised if they mess with that too.) It doesn't matter. It's truly cyclical, and any one cycle is going to look a lot like another.

Expansion. Contraction. Repeat.


Anyway, that's my guess on the larger picture. :)

Comments

[kimokeane.livejournal.com]

Hurm, I almost don't care anymore.

I'm amazed at how detached I am now - waiting a year for a half-season, after the last half-season ended so ambiguously (they never said "coming in 2009" at the end of the ep, and I knew that it was the final season, so I thought the whole show ended right there. I went online and couldn't even find anything definitive for weeks at least saying that there were more episodes coming!) that I just figured, fine, they suck and it's over.

I guess I'll watch, but I've lost all the sheen of coolness about the show, and they are going to have to be really, really clever to make me feel anything other than "yeah, so what?" about it at this point.

Bleah.

[kickaha.livejournal.com]

Yeah, at this point it's almost more like "Alright fine, I've suffered this far, I may as well see it to the end..."

Not that like that piece of crap Lost...

:D

[georgmi.livejournal.com]

I seem to recall that you have, because my instant reaction of "There are neither beginnings nor endings to the Wheel of Time" invokes a particularly strong sense of deja vu.

But hey, "All this has happened before, and will happen again, remember?" :)

[kickaha.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I figured if I *had* already posted it, it was keeping in with the theme. :D

[morgyne.livejournal.com]

Sweet! I like this theory. Another friend has the Baltar is Joseph Smith theory and Earth is Utah (or Wenatchee, take your pick) but I'm not sure how serious it is.

[kickaha.livejournal.com]

Well considering the original BSG was based loosely on Mormon mythology... he might be on to something.