Re: BSG thoughts(spoilers for the most recent episode)

On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 15:10:19 +0000 (UTC), Amy Guskin
<aisling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>>>On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 08:48:57 -0400, Chris wrote
>(in article <pelzo63-EEEEDE.22484828082005@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>):
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>> after seeing the planetarium on Kobol, it seems fairly certain(to me
>> anyways) that they will eventually find earth. my thoughts are, what
>> will they find when they get there? is this story a long long time ago?
>> is it a long time from now? or is it now? personally, i wouldn't be
>> too pleased if the story is in the future, too much potential for them
>> to arrive at earth and find that we have all the super
>> cylon-butt-kicking-technology needed. arriving at earth now or in the
>> past could create an interesting problem for them. if they stay, and
>> the cylons find them/us, then we're all screwed, if they go, they'll
>> have to remain on the run essentially forever. iirc, the original BSG
>> did arrive at earth "today" and it was badly done, but i really have no
>> fears of that scenario being repeated given the way Moore has already
>> re-done so many badly done concepts well already. there's also a little
>> thing going for them in favor of a contemporary earth storyline, it
>> would fit in with their brethren on sci-friday, the Stargate shows. they
>> just need to get Ben Browder to join the cast. ;-) <<
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>Oh, please, save me from the attack of the Farscape actors... :-)
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>As for Friday's BSG, I found it interesting that you just assumed it was a
>"planetarium." This point has been a HUGE argument in my group of
>BSG-watching friends. Was it a teleportation? (Not bloody likely - if it
>were, then they could just load up the cave with all of the surviving humans
>and zap them off to Earth, end of show!) Was it a group religious vision?
>Was it hallucinogenic gases in the cave combined with some visual and aural
>suggestion? Were they sent by smallish transportation device to a large
>planetarium elsewhere on the planet? Etc. etc. Since Moore cleverly didn't
>show them leaving the cave, we can argue this one for a long time.

I was certainly not sure, either. But since they were suddenly back
in the auditorium when Adama "ceded" authority back to Rosalin (sp?).
I had "assumed" that it was like an IMAX surround.

And, just as an aside, can't all Zodiacal signs be seen at once from
the Equator? (Ghods - it's been too long!)
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>And I think the Earth question will exist for a long enough time that it
>doesn't even bear discussion now. Adama said, looking at the nebula, that
>Earth was "a long, long way away" (or something like that), so my suspicion
>is that if they ever _do_ reach Earth...that'll be the end of the series.

It would pretty-much have to be. I kind of figure it like you do.
(great minds and all that?<G>)
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>Amy

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