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

Wendy of NJ wrote: 
On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 23:02:08 +0000 (UTC), Wesley Struebing
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On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 15:10:19 +0000 (UTC), Amy Guskin
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On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 08:48:57 -0400, Chris wrote 

(in article <pelzo63-EEEEDE.22484828082005@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>):


first, some spoo space.


























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-***-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. ;-) << 

Oh, please, save me from the attack of the Farscape actors...   :-)

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!)



No. The stars that comprise the Zodiac belt complete a 360-degree
circle around the Earth. I don't think there is anywhere on earth
where they will be visible at once. And certainly NOT at the
declinations shown in the "planetarium". That bit really annoyed me.

Well, I suppose you might be able to see eleven-and-a-fraction from the correct position on or near the arctic or antarctic circle, during a solar eclipse.


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John W. Kennedy
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-- C. S. Lewis. "An Experiment in Criticism"

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