BSG Guess...
Jan. 16th, 2009 09:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kickahaCan'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. :)
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. :)