Battlestar Galactica Goobery

I know that some people are either freaking out or completely annoyed with the Season Three Finale of Battlestar Galactica. I have some thoughts and a lot of spoilers to consider. Please ignore if you haven’t seen it and wish to be spoiler free.


I think the last episode makes clarifies a lot of the mythology of the show without explaining it. So far the writers have been very subtle with the clues and made the timeline seem really, really confused.

One thing that has always bugged me was the basic premise of Earth. The Fleet is looking for Earth, which is a planet that the lost thirteenth tribe from Kobal discovered and settled thousands of years ago.

There were several questions in my mind.

1. How would they know what the lost thirteenth tribe named their planet?

2. How would they have scrolls describing the trip to Earth? If they made it there and never came back, how would the Colonies know anything?

3. Why was the timeline for everything so screwed up? Why weren’t the writers paying attention to things?

4. What the Hell was up with Kobal? Many of the stories talked about the gods as though they were actual people. Zeus, Athena, and the rest are described more in term of very heroic people that doing anything godlike. What does it mean that the gods walked among them?

5. Why do so many people always say “Everything has already happened and will happen again?”

6. Why can’t the colonialists detect a difference between cylons and humans?

7. Why are the religions of the colonialists and the cylons so much alike?

I believe that I have a new theory about the mythology of the show.

Kobol is a future colony of Earth. I think several thousand years from now, humanity does reach the stars and eventually settles on Kobol.

And there the gods walked among the people. What is the one thing usually credited to gods? Creation of life. I think that the gods were humans from Earth and I think that they created a race of servants in their image. I think that over time the humans and cylons mingled somewhat and bred hybrids, like Hera. Over the centuries, I think that those hybrids eventually forgot that they had been created. There was some sort of rebellion and a terrible war that scattered them to the colonies. Some went back to Earth, which by this point was a story, a legend.

The Colonialists must have packed up as best they could and moved to their new home much like the current Fleet has. In such a crazy move, you don’t have time to write down histories or record everything. Events become legend and twisted.

Eventually, the colonies are founded and the hybrids themselves created slaves in their image and the cycle continues. The cylons went out into space and made their own hybrids, but couldn’t quite get it right. I imagine it like making a copy of a copy.

I think the grand master cylon plan is that they want to recreate the exodus and force the colonies to find Earth, to find the gods. I’m not even sure if they understand why they want to find them. I don’t know that the cylon realize that they are the third generation so to speak. I think they just want to evolve.

In the Fleet, I think there is a strange mix. Some of the Fleet are pure blooded humans. Some are distantly related hybrids with hidden racial memories. I think the song woke up some of those racial memories from the four that we witnessed.

Here are the clues:

The first major clue was that the ruins on Kobal were dated at 2,000 years ago.

The Temple of the Five was dated at 3,000 years ago.

The Probe from Earth was date at 4,000 years ago.

Why is everything getting older as we get closer to Earth? That doesn’t make any sense if everything started at Kobal. It does make sense if this started from Earth. The picture of Earth at the end had huge lights in North American like there was a future Tron-like city built all across the mid-west. I believe that the timeline for earth is thousands of years into our future. Maybe four or five thousand years. Maybe more.

The show seemed to show that the song the final five kept hearing was a very old earth song that activated them. It was a song that triggered memories. We know that the song was All Along the Watchtower, which you can take a look at http://www.bobdylan.com/songs/watchtower.html. Does that have any meaning other than a cool song. Maybe. We’re have to wait and see. However I have another theory connected to another event this season.

The Probe from Earth has always bothered me. How would a probe that has been around for three thousand years have a virus that only affected cylons unless it was done on purpose? Why the hell would they care about cylons unless they had a cylon problem? And if I am right and they did have their own cylon problem, why weren’t at least some of the Fleet effected by the virus? Why wasn’t Athena effected by the virus?

I think the answer relates to the song and the people triggered by the song. I think that the hybrids that have evolved closest to the gods are allowed to come to earth. That or not all of the humans were allowed to come back to Earth from Kobal and the hybrids were left behind to protect them.

And what is it that the cylons think is the missing element that will allow them to create more hybrids? It is the same thing many people brings us closest to God. Love. Athena and Caprica Six feel love and so they didn’t get sick. The other cylons got sick and started dying.

The four that were triggered by the song were all watchmen so to speak. All of them are protectors and oddly all of them were leaders of the resistance on New Caprica. Oddly, it makes what happened on New Caprica like a Cylon Civil War.

I’m reminded of what Tigh said when he started the suicide bombing. “I’m the devil in the garden.” Tigh has always seemed paranoid about the cylons and seems to have a ton of experience with fighting them. Were they acting upon some ancient code in their DNA that programmed them to protect humans from cylons?

Sam led a rebellion on Cylon Controlled Caprica without much experience. How was it that he somehow just knew what to do?

The Chief has shown to have an innate understanding of Cylon technology and was able to find the Temple almost mythically. And, he started having dreams about being a Cylon.

We don’t actually know enough about Tori to make any conclusions.

But I have a few thoughts.

The last half of the season dealt with the consequences of New Caprica. In a way, New Caprica was another twist in the cycle with humans and cylons living together. There were mistakes and tragedies. And some things you can’t get past without acknowledging it. The entire season, the Fleet tried to ignore that and pretend that everything was as it was before New Caprica. I think that is really what the Trial of Baltar was really about. If the President, aka Madam Airlock, really wanted to kill Baltar it could have been done. She wanted to show that New Caprica hadn’t changed the Fleet and that all of the mistakes on New Caprica belonged to Baltar.

I think Apollo’s speech about New Caprica and Baltar was a step in the right direction for the Fleet to get over their mistakes and move on with his life. He is correct in that the Fleet is really just a gang on the run. However, I think his speech was unintentionally about more than New Caprica.

Remember “everything has already happened and will happen again?” I think New Caprica was a replay of Kobal where the gods lived among them yet again. I think all of the mistakes and the fighting was a repeat of what happened in Kobal. I think the refugees from Kobal did the same thing that the Fleet started to do and tried to pretend it didn’t happen and to ignore why it came to that.

I think Apollo was one of the first to unintentionally break the cycle. I think he realized that you have to accept responsibility for your actions and that eventually you have to grow up. All of them frakked up. After Apollo had this realization, he was rewarded with a visit from Starbuck, now the messenger from the gods.

Starbuck appeared on the screen a lot like a figure from the old series. She appeared fast and unreadable just like the old school Ships of Light. Starbuck came with a message that she would lead them to Earth just when Apollo had the breakthrough, just when they were worthy. And then the camera panned out to show Earth, a futuristic earth with cities of light.

I think the gods have evolved on Earth past our understanding and become like the old school beings on the ship of lights from the old series and the trials of the exodus are about the Fleet earning the right to return to Earth.

The cylons have a plan. I think they know most of this. They want to be worthy to return to Earth. But I think they can’t understand the breakthrough that Apollo made. Sometimes you have to grow up and accept responsibility for your actions and you have to forgive.

Or I could be wrong. :)

Battlestar Galactica Goobery

I know that some people are either freaking out or completely annoyed with the Season Three Finale of Battlestar Galactica. I have some thoughts and a lot of spoilers to consider. Please ignore if you haven’t seen it and wish to be spoiler free.


I think the last episode makes clarifies a lot of the mythology of the show without explaining it. So far the writers have been very subtle with the clues and made the timeline seem really, really confused.

One thing that has always bugged me was the basic premise of Earth. The Fleet is looking for Earth, which is a planet that the lost thirteenth tribe from Kobal discovered and settled thousands of years ago.

There were several questions in my mind.

1. How would they know what the lost thirteenth tribe named their planet?

2. How would they have scrolls describing the trip to Earth? If they made it there and never came back, how would the Colonies know anything?

3. Why was the timeline for everything so screwed up? Why weren’t the writers paying attention to things?

4. What the Hell was up with Kobal? Many of the stories talked about the gods as though they were actual people. Zeus, Athena, and the rest are described more in term of very heroic people that doing anything godlike. What does it mean that the gods walked among them?

5. Why do so many people always say “Everything has already happened and will happen again?”

6. Why can’t the colonialists detect a difference between cylons and humans?

7. Why are the religions of the colonialists and the cylons so much alike?

I believe that I have a new theory about the mythology of the show.

Kobol is a future colony of Earth. I think several thousand years from now, humanity does reach the stars and eventually settles on Kobol.

And there the gods walked among the people. What is the one thing usually credited to gods? Creation of life. I think that the gods were humans from Earth and I think that they created a race of servants in their image. I think that over time the humans and cylons mingled somewhat and bred hybrids, like Hera. Over the centuries, I think that those hybrids eventually forgot that they had been created. There was some sort of rebellion and a terrible war that scattered them to the colonies. Some went back to Earth, which by this point was a story, a legend.

The Colonialists must have packed up as best they could and moved to their new home much like the current Fleet has. In such a crazy move, you don’t have time to write down histories or record everything. Events become legend and twisted.

Eventually, the colonies are founded and the hybrids themselves created slaves in their image and the cycle continues. The cylons went out into space and made their own hybrids, but couldn’t quite get it right. I imagine it like making a copy of a copy.

I think the grand master cylon plan is that they want to recreate the exodus and force the colonies to find Earth, to find the gods. I’m not even sure if they understand why they want to find them. I don’t know that the cylon realize that they are the third generation so to speak. I think they just want to evolve.

In the Fleet, I think there is a strange mix. Some of the Fleet are pure blooded humans. Some are distantly related hybrids with hidden racial memories. I think the song woke up some of those racial memories from the four that we witnessed.

Here are the clues:

The first major clue was that the ruins on Kobal were dated at 2,000 years ago.

The Temple of the Five was dated at 3,000 years ago.

The Probe from Earth was date at 4,000 years ago.

Why is everything getting older as we get closer to Earth? That doesn’t make any sense if everything started at Kobal. It does make sense if this started from Earth. The picture of Earth at the end had huge lights in North American like there was a future Tron-like city built all across the mid-west. I believe that the timeline for earth is thousands of years into our future. Maybe four or five thousand years. Maybe more.

The show seemed to show that the song the final five kept hearing was a very old earth song that activated them. It was a song that triggered memories. We know that the song was All Along the Watchtower, which you can take a look at http://www.bobdylan.com/songs/watchtower.html. Does that have any meaning other than a cool song. Maybe. We’re have to wait and see. However I have another theory connected to another event this season.

The Probe from Earth has always bothered me. How would a probe that has been around for three thousand years have a virus that only affected cylons unless it was done on purpose? Why the hell would they care about cylons unless they had a cylon problem? And if I am right and they did have their own cylon problem, why weren’t at least some of the Fleet effected by the virus? Why wasn’t Athena effected by the virus?

I think the answer relates to the song and the people triggered by the song. I think that the hybrids that have evolved closest to the gods are allowed to come to earth. That or not all of the humans were allowed to come back to Earth from Kobal and the hybrids were left behind to protect them.

And what is it that the cylons think is the missing element that will allow them to create more hybrids? It is the same thing many people brings us closest to God. Love. Athena and Caprica Six feel love and so they didn’t get sick. The other cylons got sick and started dying.

The four that were triggered by the song were all watchmen so to speak. All of them are protectors and oddly all of them were leaders of the resistance on New Caprica. Oddly, it makes what happened on New Caprica like a Cylon Civil War.

I’m reminded of what Tigh said when he started the suicide bombing. “I’m the devil in the garden.” Tigh has always seemed paranoid about the cylons and seems to have a ton of experience with fighting them. Were they acting upon some ancient code in their DNA that programmed them to protect humans from cylons?

Sam led a rebellion on Cylon Controlled Caprica without much experience. How was it that he somehow just knew what to do?

The Chief has shown to have an innate understanding of Cylon technology and was able to find the Temple almost mythically. And, he started having dreams about being a Cylon.

We don’t actually know enough about Tori to make any conclusions.

But I have a few thoughts.

The last half of the season dealt with the consequences of New Caprica. In a way, New Caprica was another twist in the cycle with humans and cylons living together. There were mistakes and tragedies. And some things you can’t get past without acknowledging it. The entire season, the Fleet tried to ignore that and pretend that everything was as it was before New Caprica. I think that is really what the Trial of Baltar was really about. If the President, aka Madam Airlock, really wanted to kill Baltar it could have been done. She wanted to show that New Caprica hadn’t changed the Fleet and that all of the mistakes on New Caprica belonged to Baltar.

I think Apollo’s speech about New Caprica and Baltar was a step in the right direction for the Fleet to get over their mistakes and move on with his life. He is correct in that the Fleet is really just a gang on the run. However, I think his speech was unintentionally about more than New Caprica.

Remember “everything has already happened and will happen again?” I think New Caprica was a replay of Kobal where the gods lived among them yet again. I think all of the mistakes and the fighting was a repeat of what happened in Kobal. I think the refugees from Kobal did the same thing that the Fleet started to do and tried to pretend it didn’t happen and to ignore why it came to that.

I think Apollo was one of the first to unintentionally break the cycle. I think he realized that you have to accept responsibility for your actions and that eventually you have to grow up. All of them frakked up. After Apollo had this realization, he was rewarded with a visit from Starbuck, now the messenger from the gods.

Starbuck appeared on the screen a lot like a figure from the old series. She appeared fast and unreadable just like the old school Ships of Light. Starbuck came with a message that she would lead them to Earth just when Apollo had the breakthrough, just when they were worthy. And then the camera panned out to show Earth, a futuristic earth with cities of light.

I think the gods have evolved on Earth past our understanding and become like the old school beings on the ship of lights from the old series and the trials of the exodus are about the Fleet earning the right to return to Earth.

The cylons have a plan. I think they know most of this. They want to be worthy to return to Earth. But I think they can’t understand the breakthrough that Apollo made. Sometimes you have to grow up and accept responsibility for your actions and you have to forgive.

Or I could be wrong. :)