The Best Theory Ever

[genji2000]

This is not the best theory ever. This is just a tribute.

I'm sure there are many more out there that belong here, sorry for those I missed.

For nuggets, here (http://www.battlestarforum.com/showthread.php?p=24588#post24588)'s a list of theory explanations.

[stavrosg]

I got in here before you put the poll (or did I not notice it?) and thought "wtf? I can't sense the irony on this".
Anyway, voting now.

[genji2000]

I got in here before you put the poll (or did I not notice it?) and thought "wtf? I can't sense the irony on this".
Anyway, voting now.

Right. I didn't realise the thread goes up while the poll is still being set up. Quite a delay for polls with many options.

It'd make more sense if the thread title didn't have the "Poll:" prefix.

Tigh is not a Cylon. As if.

[timbo]

Yeehaa, Tigh is not a cylon is coming second in the poll. C´mon the rest of you secret Tigh Chip believers, jump out of the closet and expose yourselves.

[Batman316]

*grins at the Baltar's a clone minions

[Zlaticko]

See, now, I thought it said, "Helo is the tits" . . .

[Batman316]

I didn't get the reference to 'Hero is the tits'

Guess it was something I missed. Anyone want to explain or link me?

[genji2000]

I didn't get the reference to 'Hero is the tits'

Guess it was something I missed. Anyone want to explain or link me?

It's not very interesting. I guess you had to be there.

http://www.battlestarforum.com/showthread.php?t=1211
http://www.battlestarforum.com/showthread.php?t=1243

[Batman316]

Sooooo the episode is considered a set of boobs >.> lol thanks for the link.

[timbo]

Oy, why is the Tigh´s Eye theory the only one in italics? Are you trying to say that among a bunch of crackpot ideas, this one truly is the prince of stupid.

[stavrosg]

<insert stupid noob joke here>

[genji2000]

Duh. The options YOU vote for show up in italics when you go back to the thread. lol.

So we now know what both of you voted for.

[Pnutmaster]

Baltar's off-screen escape from the nuclear blast. A theory with seniority ;)

[genji2000]

Baltar's off-screen escape from the nuclear blast. A theory with seniority ;)

But no basis in reality.

Allegedly.

[Pnutmaster]

Best is not necessarily the most plausible :p Best theory evar!

[genji2000]

Best is not necessarily the most plausible :p Best theory evar!

Quite right.

[timbo]

I should get two votes really, because Adama would obviously vote for Tigh´s Eye if he wasn´t busy acting and stuff.

This is the year of the Españoles

European Championship
Wimbledon
This poll

[genji2000]

The retcon option appears to be the most popular, despite Baltar's statement in Taking A Break From All Your Worries: "Caprica Six. She saved my life. Shielded me from the explosion."

Oh well.

[The Dirt]

Why didn't anyone tell me about this poll??? I love to spew my opinion over everyone else - and the multiple choice thing - muah! Multiple opinion spewing! Now I just feel left out.

I'm puzzled how Caprica Six saved Baltar with her pelvis. Why did he have to get down, anyway? She's taller than him by like 3 inches. More rhetorical questions to come.

[13th_Cylon]

I'm puzzled how Caprica Six saved Baltar with her pelvis. Why did he have to get down, anyway? She's taller than him by like 3 inches. More rhetorical questions to come.

She may have wanted some Cyloningus.

[Zompton]

I'm going to have to Baltar dying is my favorite theory, but i cant say i think it is true.

[BSGfan-atic]

Thanks for putting some of these together in one place. And I for one thought that Hero was not the "tits," although for a while, Lee had a pair of manboobs (maybe training bra stage).

[genji2000]

Why didn't anyone tell me about this poll??? I love to spew my opinion over everyone else - and the multiple choice thing - muah! Multiple opinion spewing!

Because we knew you'd make one post and then let the thing wither.

[thevarrior]

My personal favorite is Hero is the tits. Just because.

[The Dirt]

Hero being the tits doesn't even sound like a theory, and you're right, Genji, I have let this thread down, if not the whole board. I'll be happy to be waterboarded for it.

Anyway, I'd have to say that Baltar dying would be a great twist and explain a few inconsistencies, while them not being on the "real" Earth would be stupid.

[timbo]

Fucking hell dudes, I had forgotten just how cool some of my theories were. And as I start to get into all this again, I realise that I still dont think Tigh is a cylon, or at least wasnt when the show began.

Remember when Einstein finished his theory of relativity and then realised it wasn´t quite right, and came up with his special theory of relativity, Yes? Good. Well, I think I´m gonna do the same.

I still think that the guys behind this show have tried to embrace just about every credo, every idea from areas such as psychology, computer technology, political science, old and new, and incorporate them into this microcosmic space caravan.
Now, I ´m not one to blow my own trumpet, although I did try once, and nearly broke my back, but I think I am ready to take the "special theory" baton from Albert and run my leg of the race.

It is only just taking shape, but that virus thing is interesting. I mentioned the incorporation of ideas from psychology because I think maybe there will be be some reference to our collective unconscious and even inherited memory.

Íf Tigh is playing host to a virus, why him? was it just random? Maybe everybody is a potential host. That question that keeps popping up, "what does it mean to be cylon / human?" maybe has the same answer for both. Whatever it means for one, it means the same for the other.

Copernicus said that the Earth was not the centre of the solar system, but that the sun was, and lots of people got angry. This was probably one of the first steps away from the idea of a humanity centred universe. Maybe BSG is going to going to help us take another step along the way, another humbling realisation - that humanity´s origins and those of the cylons are similar in some way.

There it is dudes, the key - humility. They think that the treasure at the end of all this is Earth, but maybe it isn´t, maybe the treasure is humility.

Okay, I think I´m onto something now.

[Zod]

Okay, I think I´m onto something now.

Do you think?? You've taken long enough.

Personal fave 'Hero is the tits'. Because I like tits.

[Vesihiisi]

Well, I am not perfectly familiar with all of these theories, but on the surface, and without spending hours reading old threads, they seem to be mostly of the one-question-one-answer kind. I would say that the best theory out of those listed would be the one that would attempt to explain the most, but it is difficult to immediately see which one that might be.

I am looking forward to timbo's special theory of galactivity. I hope the theory will have lot's of warps in it like Albert had in his.

[Hofner1962]

Well, I am not perfectly familiar with all of these theories, but on the surface, and without spending hours reading old threads, they seem to be mostly of the one-question-one-answer kind. I would say that the best theory out of those listed would be the one that would attempt to explain the most, but it is difficult to see which one that might be.

Ah the grand unified theory.

[Batman316]

*remembers the many "Star Wars Grand Unified Theories"

....I'll settle for only half of our questions answered as long as they make sense.

[Vesihiisi]

*remembers the many "Star Wars Grand Unified Theories"

....I'll settle for only half of our questions answered as long as they make sense.I don't what those theories are, but I can guess that they might make pretty tiresome reading. I wouldn't enjoy a long list of unrelated or incoherent answers to all the questions out there, but a good theory would try to nail just one or two things that would have major ramifications for the interpretation of the whole series. The identity of the fifth cylon on its own, for example, might not be one of those things.

Ok. I must have been not only under the influence of a cold but also quite bored to post this.

[The Dirt]

Timbo, I'm with you! Theorize away, especially the special theory kind of way!

[Hofner1962]

Remember when Einstein finished his theory of relativity and then realised it wasn´t quite right, and came up with his special theory of relativity, Yes? Good. Well, I think I´m gonna do the same.
I don't think we need another theory of relativity thank you. We are still trying to deal with the ramifications of the current one.



I still think that the guys behind this show have tried to embrace just about every credo, every idea from areas such as psychology, computer technology, political science, old and new, and incorporate them into this microcosmic space caravan.


This is very true. The question is - can anything be ascertained from it. I think the answer is actually no. I think they throw all these little tidbits - especially from myth and religion (yes - redundant - I know - but bear with me - not the mime kind of bear either) - to basically ground the show in our collective psyche. Many of these stories resonate with us deeply - at an unconscious level. By tossing these bits in, I think they get more quickly to the willing suspension of disbelief than if they were to create their own entire mythos from scratch.

I don't think you can rely on them for extrapolation. I still believe in my math analogy in this regard.



Now, I ´m not one to blow my own trumpet, although I did try once, and nearly broke my back, but I think I am ready.


Just remember to return the advanced yoga DVDs to the library when you are done.


Okay, I think I´m ... something now.

[Batman316]

Maybe we should take a step back and consider this from another persepctive. What answers do we NEED to know? What are the 'must have' explinations? Considering a lot will likely be left to our own imagination.

Personally I would have no problem if we never see the fleet settle anywhere. Does the Revelations Earth really need to be answered? logical commonsense tells us that we destroyed it. If RDM never explains what happened then I think we can answer that one ourselves.

Common sense is that Cylons are just an advanced cyborgs with super long life batteries. So their creation doesn't NEED to be answered

So what questions MUST be answered? (I smell another possible poll)

Head Characters? I don't think they need to be explained. If RDM never comes right out and tells us then we're pretty right to assume that they are working for a 'higher power'

Starbuck I think is an answer we absolutely need to have. Baltar's survival on Caprica is another.

[Hofner1962]

Maybe we should take a step back and consider this from another persepctive. What answers do we NEED to know? What are the 'must have' explinations? Considering a lot will likely be left to our own imagination.


Tell you what they aren't going to answer. How you can have a funeral service at "dawn" when you are in the middle of space. Also not going to explain how 12 different planets all have the same notion of "day" and "year" considering they would all spin at different angular velocities, have different circumferences and different orbits.

Probably won't answer the Shelley Godfried question. Probably aren't going to answer how someone as hot as Grace Park would bang a crusty booger like Cavil - unless he is really rich, that would play.