Battlestar Galactica:Season Finale {SPOILERS UNLIMITED} 1.4.05
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Sir Brennen
Legend
Cycle of Time
Okay, here's my theory:
* Earth exists, even if only in legend.
* The human colonies worship Greek gods, have twelve planets named after the Zodiac.
* These names came from somewhere.
* The Cylons believe in one true god (and evangelisize like southern baptists.)
* Everything that has happened before will happen again, according to the scriptures.
Therefore:
The Cylon/human war is a repeat of the rise of Christianity admist the Roman Empire!
See, the cylons aren't trying to breed with humanity; they want just one baby - a Messiah!
Baltar will be his John the Baptist.
It all fits!
Well, except for that the early Christians didn't blow up the Roman Empire...
Actually, someone else mentioned the twelve Cylon models being like the twelve Olympians, which is a pretty interesting point, too.
But this is what I like about the show - the religious aspects are multi-facted, open to interpretation, and shows different philosophies at odds with each other. Unlike the Matrix, where philosophy turned out to be literal truth, and therefore less interesting. I also like that the machines are devoutly religious, instead of the emotionless cyborg cliche which most shows/movies would use.
One last interpretation of the spiritual views of the societies in the show - it's a reflection of the tensions underlying 9/11 - a moderate, open society is attacked by one with a fanatical viewpoint. This in turn gave rise to a greater religious/political association within the moderate society, which then caused a division over direction within that same society (represented by Pres. Roslin and Tom Zarek, which hints about next session indicate he will be in opposition to her decision to start letting prophecy influence her leadership.)
This is a great show. I just hope it stays leaning more toward sci-fi than fantasy, in that "miracles" don't start happening without at least some plausible, logical explaination. Ambiguity is okay, just not overt supernatural events. (Like the prez's drugs giving her hallucinations... or visions?)
Okay, here's my theory:
* Earth exists, even if only in legend.
* The human colonies worship Greek gods, have twelve planets named after the Zodiac.
* These names came from somewhere.
* The Cylons believe in one true god (and evangelisize like southern baptists.)
* Everything that has happened before will happen again, according to the scriptures.
Therefore:
The Cylon/human war is a repeat of the rise of Christianity admist the Roman Empire!
See, the cylons aren't trying to breed with humanity; they want just one baby - a Messiah!
Baltar will be his John the Baptist.
It all fits!
Well, except for that the early Christians didn't blow up the Roman Empire...
Actually, someone else mentioned the twelve Cylon models being like the twelve Olympians, which is a pretty interesting point, too.
But this is what I like about the show - the religious aspects are multi-facted, open to interpretation, and shows different philosophies at odds with each other. Unlike the Matrix, where philosophy turned out to be literal truth, and therefore less interesting. I also like that the machines are devoutly religious, instead of the emotionless cyborg cliche which most shows/movies would use.
One last interpretation of the spiritual views of the societies in the show - it's a reflection of the tensions underlying 9/11 - a moderate, open society is attacked by one with a fanatical viewpoint. This in turn gave rise to a greater religious/political association within the moderate society, which then caused a division over direction within that same society (represented by Pres. Roslin and Tom Zarek, which hints about next session indicate he will be in opposition to her decision to start letting prophecy influence her leadership.)
This is a great show. I just hope it stays leaning more toward sci-fi than fantasy, in that "miracles" don't start happening without at least some plausible, logical explaination. Ambiguity is okay, just not overt supernatural events. (Like the prez's drugs giving her hallucinations... or visions?)
VirgilCaine
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dravot said:
"DRADIS."
Does no one else have closed captioning on when they watch?
cignus_pfaccari
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VirgilCaine said:
I don't know about your closed captioning, but mine has a bad habit of misspelling things.
I could've sworn I heard GRADIS, which sounds like it has the word "Gravity" in it. Which, assuming one disregards certain recent experiments, explains how they can have short-range FTL sensors and communications (as gravity was thought to propogate instantaneously, though a recent experiment seemed to show it propogated at lightspeed, same as anything else).
But, of course, I could be wrong.
Brad
Flyspeck23
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Not any time soon. At least Benedict has said (according to his personal message board admins) that he wasn't contacted by the production crew thus far.
cignus_pfaccari said:I could've sworn I heard GRADIS, which sounds like it has the word "Gravity" in it. Which, assuming one disregards certain recent experiments, explains how they can have short-range FTL sensors and communications (as gravity was thought to propogate instantaneously, though a recent experiment seemed to show it propogated at lightspeed, same as anything else).
But, of course, I could be wrong.
It's DRADIS: Direction, RAnge and DIStance.
jasper
Rotten DM
First some necessary unpleasant business
Krieg come here. Jasper raises his wife’s sharp shovel over his head. Wham wham wham chop chop chop. He looks around and finds the cow fertilizer. Cover cover cover. Dust off his hands. Any one else want to post a pic of the child or season which will not be named!
6 disappearing is easy. Open airlock step out. After all they make more.
Krieg come here. Jasper raises his wife’s sharp shovel over his head. Wham wham wham chop chop chop. He looks around and finds the cow fertilizer. Cover cover cover. Dust off his hands. Any one else want to post a pic of the child or season which will not be named!
6 disappearing is easy. Open airlock step out. After all they make more.
cignus_pfaccari
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Flyspeck23 said:
Not that I'm saying I don't believe you, but where'd you get that?
Brad
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