The Mythology of Battlestar Galactica
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Quote:No shit?! I thought it was all documented history.
Originally posted by stinkingrose:
Let us all remember that the show was created by people living in modern day Earth, and is not a docudrama.
Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum.
Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.
-- Cicero
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Quote:The story is true- however, the names were changed to protect the innocent.
Originally posted by stinkingrose:
Let us all remember that the show was created by people living in modern day Earth, and is not a docudrama.
Modern day Chrisisall
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The greatest thing about BSG was the depth to which they created the back-story and tied it into ancient mythology and architecture. When you’re a kid and you don’t know that much about history, you buy these crazy alien stories and mythologies better, which made BSG seem very plausible, somehow. The new BSG has continued this, with a few changes. They shed the ancient architecture angle a little. There’s no assumption that the pyramids had to be created by some super-advanced society, and I think that’s a good idea, because none of these massive megalithic structures from antiquity are as mysterious in their construction as they were in the 70s. For the most part the back-story of the new BSG seems to have centered completely on an ancient Greco-Roman theme, shedding nearly entirely the Egyptian or Mayan thing.
Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum.
Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.
-- Cicero
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Quote:I miss that...
Originally posted by Finn mac Cumhal:
For the most part the back-story of the new BSG seems to have centered completely on an ancient Greco-Roman theme, shedding nearly entirely the Egyptian or Mayan thing.
So, when our original Galactica crew monitered the Moon landing in Hand Of God, was that an OLD transmission, or a relatively current one?
Were they to find descendants of the thirteenth tribe that could help with the Cylon problem (ie, Trek-like), or just us regular 20th Century types?
Arm phasers! Chrisisall
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Quote:The idea in the story seems to be that the story takes place in current time, so the descendents of the thirteenth tribe are us, in 1978. Which effectively means that the rag-tag fugitive fleet fleeing from the Cylons was actually leading us to our doom at the hands of a super-advanced race of alien robots thirsty for human blood. Pin-pointing the exact time is difficult because there are some continuity problems if I remember correctly, but the Apollo 11 moon landing was monitored by the Galactica, which occurred in 1969. So in 1979 (when Hand of God aired), the Galactica and its fleet were approximately no more then ten light-years away.
Originally posted by chrisisall:
So, when our original Galactica crew monitered the Moon landing in Hand Of God, was that an OLD transmission, or a relatively current one?
Were they to find descendants of the thirteenth tribe that could help with the Cylon problem (ie, Trek-like), or just us regular 20th Century types?
Since the Galactica and its crew visited many star systems in search of earth and there aren’t that many star systems within ten ly, they must have just passed right by.
EDIT: Actually doing some googling to refresh my memory of that episode, the Galactica never actually monitored the Apollo 11 moon landing, but simply received it, at the end of the episode, but no one was there to hear it, so the idea may actually have been that they passed right by.
Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum.
Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.
-- Cicero
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Quote:My take was that this was the first transmission that their sensors stumbled upon, and that newer, more sophisticated signals have a shorter range by design, so that the Earth they would find would be roughly equivalent to them, tek-wise, like 2179 or so. But our long stretch of world peace that started at the end of the Corporate Wars (2021- 2025) would leave us ill prepared to help them immediately in fighting the Cylons, and a race against time to develop new weapons before the Cylons arrived at full strength would ensue.
Originally posted by Finn mac Cumhal:
EDIT: Actually doing some googling to refresh my memory of that episode, the Galactica never actually monitored the Apollo 11 moon landing, but simply received it, at the end of the episode, but no one was there to hear it, so the idea may actually have been that they passed right by.
...or something like that
Big imagination Chrisisall
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What is a Corporate War? Sounds like something from the 80s.
And why would newer, more sophisticated signals have a shorter range?
Also there is a huge plot continuity problem, as I mentioned. This comes from Galatica 1980, which takes place 30 years after the previous seasons in 1978-9. The problem here is that 30 years prior to 1980 the Apollo Moon Landing and that famous phrase “The Eagle has landed” heard at the end of Hand Of God, would not happen for another 19 years. Oops!
Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum.
Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.
-- Cicero
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Quote:The oil and food corporations will vie for control of the markets as certain economies collapse around the world, leading to actual violent conflict and world-wide riots, of course.
Originally posted by Finn mac Cumhal:
What is a Corporate War? Sounds like something from the 80s.
Quote:To keep information on a leash, of course.
And why would newer, more sophisticated signals have a shorter range?
Quote:Galactica 1980 is a figment of your imagination, and never really existed, of course.
Also there is a huge plot continuity problem, as I mentioned. This comes from Galatica 1980, which takes place 30 years after the previous seasons in 1978-9. The problem here is that 30 years prior to 1980 the Apollo Moon Landing and that famous phrase “The Eagle has landed” heard at the end of Hand Of God, would not happen for another 19 years. Oops!
Chrisisall, of course.
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I will say one thing about the original Battlestar Gallactica and that is that I was very disappointed when they finally reached Earth and it was in the 1970s level of technology. Imagine what it would have been like if the Cylons had come across the Republic in Joss Whedon's Serenity story. That would be fun!
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