BSG musings; with fraking UPDATES

Friends were surprised when I said as far back as book 5 that I thought that Harry Pottor would turn out to be a horcrux. Now I've been trying to figure out where Battlestar Galactica is heading with it's final story line.

The fleet population is down to 30,000. Will they simply get wiped out? Will they make it to earth and find it populated by cylons, or destroyed by them shortly thereafter? Will the internal conflicts in the cylon race or their half-breed children cause them to end up merged with or replacing the humans? The most interesting plots would be to take earth out of the picture, or have both races virtually destroy each other leaving earth alone.

The problem is that the authors are intentionally supplying every strong fact with something weaker to make you doubt it. Here it is the last season of the series and you really haven't moved that far from season 1 in hard core information except that the cylons do look human. The crux of the series has been the emotional and character impact of an ugly situation.

Baltar is spreading a belief in one God and getting persecuted for it. Wouldn't it disappointing that when Earth is discovered, it's around 0 BC our time and Baltar is the only person to survive and land? Given his current physical appearance and the direction his personality is taking the writers could be trying to turn him into Jesus. He has advanced healing skills, and if he turned out to be the 12th Cylon they could make him come back to life after being killed. And if not Baltar, then perhaps one of the Cylon-human babies is used to carry this idea. It would support that "last supper" promotional poster of the show's stars they keep showing. I wonder is it's significant there are 12 models of cylons? These are almost as bad as the Galactica 1980 episodes, but it sure seems like the plot lines are heading in this direction. I think fans are hoping for a more humans-overcome-cylons ending.

As to which human is the last unknown Cylon model, the candidates are obvious. The president, Comander Adama, Starbuck, and Baltar. The president, with her "shove them out the airlock" attitude has the personality most resembling Cylons, but then she (claims) she's dying. Baltar has this mental communication thing with Six (not to be confused with another slim blonde sci-fi cyborg babe named Seven). We are lead to believe this is imaginary, but it could be that he's a cylon and it's real communication. Of course the Cylons told him that he's not one of them, but that means little. Adama would be the most interesting plot twist and his ancestors created the AI that resulted in the Cylon intelligence. Starbuck was missing for months, seen destroyed by a Cylon ship, comes back with a poor memory and a brand new Viper and a "feeling" about where earth is".

Of course this would be a much shorter series if they could come up with what should be an easy way to examine a person and tell if he's human or cylon. You would think a race advanced enough to cut the corners off their writing paper could build a strength test to distinguish cylon from human.

My vote is for the president, with Starbuck as a runner up. Discovering the president was a Cylon would create a story line about Adama dealing with the dilema.

My recorder lets me watch shows at double speed with pitch adjusted audio. I have discovered that if I record BSG and watch it that way, all the slow music, long lulls, and paused filled conversations come across much more normal. The episodes are quite stretched to fill 60 minutes.


FRAKING UPDATE

24 hours after I wrote my BSG thoughts, Digg published a story about how bloggers are musing over BSG plot clues. This coincidence has happened to me before. Someone even mentioned my Baltar plot idea. But there was one proposal I can't believe I didn't think of...

Starbuck's return from Earth in a brand new ship is likely a retelling of the "ship of lights" story from the original series. In that story a superior race in both ability and technology used some Colonial warriors to help in the fight between good and evil. People that departed from the lightship ended up with white uniforms and vipers. This would mean she really did go to Earth and take photos, and her mind was manipulated to both help and hide facts.

I think this is what is happening here. Whether Starbuck may also be a cylon doesn't really prevent this possibility. The "ship of lights" could even be manned by humans from Earth, or rogue cylons. There are several possible outcomes, but they all point to Starbuck really returning from Earth.

Another person proposed that EVEYONE is a cylon. If I run with that idea, then perhaps cylons don't even realize this and are just recreating a past event (the original series). It would also mean the cylon raid on caprica was cylons killing cylons. This is a fun idea, but it's doubtful because there would have to have been millions or billions of different cylon human models and it's been made plain there are only 12.

I think everyone is expecting that Earth will NOT be today's existing society and recreate the Galactica 1980 series. Most think it will be a future version, where Earth is actiually the source of the 12 colonies rather than a missing 13th (this is what I think), or something more dark like being destroyed.

Syndicated 2008-04-26 05:48:31 (Updated 2008-06-03 02:28:33) from Keith