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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TDRandall" data-source="post: 1981391" data-attributes="member: 4808">Well, being in the US and seeing only the first ... what, 4? 5? ... episodes shown so far, this info may be out of date compared to what a friend over the pond might share with us.The basic "public" scenario is parallel to the original series.  "Earth" is somewhere out there, nearly mythical, and noone really knows where or how to find it.  Rather than being a 13th, sister colony, I think it was presented more as the birthplace of all humans.The current series has it painted in much bleaker tones though, than in the original.  I think it was one of the last things of the miniseries where Adama essentially contrived the mission to find Earth as a way to revive morale and build up hope in the survivors.  If I heard/understood correctly, the following conversation between he and the president made it sound like he personally doesn't believe it's out there, or if it is that there is never any way they will find it.  But it's better to go down fighting rather than tell everybody to curl up in a ball because the Cylons will eventually find you and destroy you, if you don't run out of supplies first........What gets me is why are they showing the Caprica stuff if the fleet is really actively searching for Earth?  Makes me feel like they are actually meandering, even circling, just outside the "red-line" (or whatever they called it) of known space.  Why wouldn't their first course of action be to head straight out from the 12 colonies and get as much space as possible between them and the Cylons?</blockquote>

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