OT: BSG Discussion

Atrocities · #1 February 22nd, 2006, 03:52 AM

In a recent episode, (SPOILER) Baltar provided some info about the expected survival rates of man kind. It was not good. I think they would all need to find a planet, a safe one, and then all settle it in order to give rebirth to humanity.

Ideally, I suspect that at some point it will become a virus war or simular. It is really the only option to beat the organic based machines of the cylon empire now.

Also it could be written in that they find other human occupied worlds, like they did in the origal series, and spark off a little side war. No one wants to take on an enemy of someone they don't know especially if that enemy has big powerful nukes and wants to purge the galaxy of man kind.

narf poit chez BOOM · #2 February 23rd, 2006, 01:29 AM

They could run into a galaxy far, far away and not so long ago!

Atrocities · #3 February 23rd, 2006, 09:32 AM

Oh great give Lucas another excuse to shut down yet another sci-fi show.

Wolfman77 · #4 February 23rd, 2006, 12:05 PM

I don't think he needs an excuse, he just forgets to take his medication every now and then.

ZeroAdunn · #5 February 23rd, 2006, 01:47 PM

I hope they don't run into other human occupied worlds. It just doesn't seem right.

As for beating the cylons: I don't think that'll happen. What I think would be ideal would be if they found earth, and in the final episodes they manage to make a truce with the cylons. They have been dealing a lot lately with the fact that it isn't enough to survive, the humans have to be worthy of surviving, I would hope this would tie into the final stages of the series, maybe even being the reason the cylons are finally willing to stop hunting the humans.

Hunpecked · #6 February 24th, 2006, 05:18 PM

ZeroAdunn: "I hope they don't run into other human occupied worlds. It just doesn't seem right."

Not necessarily. Colonial tradition is that they originated somewhere else (and of course we know their ancestors migrated from the Sol system). Presumably the migration would have left colonies on habitable worlds along the migration route. If the Colonial fleet is traveling in the general direction of Sol (allowing for stellar movement), it's not unreasonable for them to find some of these old colonies, which may in fact have thrived and surpassed the Colonials in technology and population.

geoschmo · #7 February 24th, 2006, 06:55 PM

I also don't have a problem with there being small colonies scattered around that were offshoots of the Twelve Colonies. People complain about that from the orginal series, but it never was a problem for me. Even planets that the twelve colonies weren't aware of. Certain types of people have always tended towards living far away from population centers, and they might not want everyone knowing where they are.