Could it be that they are all dead?

[TPL2008]

And this journey to the 'promised land,' is just a test for their souls to get into a heaven of some sort?

It's a theory i've been playing with for sometime. It's the Cylons and everything Final Fivey i can't fit into it.

I mean it would be an interest, though possibly cheap, way of ending the series too. The Fleet reaches a destination and a happy one at that, but it fundamentally different because they are actually physically dead and have been so since the mini-series.

Galactica was destroyed by nuke that hit.

Helo died when his Raptor was attacked.

Baltar died when his home was destroyed.

Lee and Roslin died when the Cylons attacked Colonial One before Lee used the EMP generators.

And everything else since their deaths has been judgement on how they shepherded the 40,000 to heaven.

It's got holes in it, quite big ones but it would make us revisit the mini-series wouldn't it.

[BSGfan-atic]

Anders died when his Raptor was attacked.

If Galactica was destroyed by the nuke that hit her, then Anders never would have made it to any kind of flight status, and he would have died up in the mountains, with the rest of his team where they were training.

Interesting. A kind of "The Others" feel about it. It wouldn't work though, because as theoretically interesting as it might be, it would be a cheap way to end the series. I remember when "Dallas" ended the "Who Shot J. R.?" story arc with it being another character's dream. The fans would track down and burn the houses and vehicles of the entire production staff if something like that were tried with BSG.:D

[Osprey]

um, "Dallas" used the dream sequence escape to resolve Bobby's "death," which took place seasons after j.r. had been shot ...


and, fwiw, the whole "sixth sense" business implied by this theory ain't.gonna.happen.

[genji2000]

It's a theory i've been playing with for sometime. It's the Cylons and everything Final Fivey i can't fit into it.

Classic.

[Acheron]

Maybe it's all a dream?

[Neakal]

Maybe it's all a dream?

Maybe its all a drug-trip of Bob Dylan who will sober up and come up with an idea for a new song which will, at a later date, be covered by Jimi Hendrix :thumbsup:

Interesting idea about the death thing. I had a thought of that as well. Particularly how every "death" moment was cut before the actual thing happened. (We see the nuke whiting the screen out, Same with the EMP blast in Roslin's ship. Baltar's house scene ends the moment the shockwave hits etc...) but I agree others that it won't work :)

[Prolescum]

Classic.

Agreed.

I think we're taking the spiritual quest of the show a bit too seriously, of course, it'll have a conclusion and a connection with the whole plot, it'll also lead into the new show but I don't think it'll be that deep, just a revelation or two about the characters' own journeys. It's all about the spaceships.

[genji2000]

Agreed.

I think we're taking the spiritual quest of the show a bit too seriously,

Maybe... I mean, yes I think you're right, but the spiritual aspect is all over this show like a bad suit. I think you're right though, those of us who are into the religious aspects will find that it's not the be all and end all.

of course, it'll have a conclusion and a connection with the whole plot, it'll also lead into the new show but I don't think it'll be that deep, just a revelation or two about the characters' own journeys.

Maybe...

It's all about the spaceships.

Right on brother. Would that it were so.

[Stairway]

Maybe it's all a dream?

Well that would be neat, wouldn't it.

End scene:
"And then he woke up"

[Aurora]

Maybe it's all a dream?

LOL. Maybe like the thing they did with Bob Newhart waking up next to his wife from the first series to close his second series...

On the last episode of Season 4, Richard Hatch wakes up as TOS Apollo next to Jane Seymour and says., "You'll never guess the crazy dream I just had..."

:thumbsup:

[Neakal]

On the last episode of Season 4, Richard Hatch wakes up as TOS Apollo next to Jane Seymour and says., "You'll never guess the crazy dream I just had..."
:thumbsup:

TOS-Apollo: "Hey darling. I just had a dream about how the Cylon's should have destroyed the Colonies and how we should have reacted in the aftermath. Also, you were left behind in Caprica and Boxey, well, he just wasn't around after a Cylon pointed a gun at him.

Oh, and I had sex with Starbuck." :lol:

[Aurora]

Oh, and I had sex with Starbuck." :lol:

Awesome.

[smelly_feet]

Maybe it's all a dream?

Now that would be a classic ending. A teen boy in our time wakes up with a BSG novel in his hand. He had a dream consisting of the entire series inspired by the book he's reading.

[smelly_feet]

LOL. Maybe like the thing they did with Bob Newhart waking up next to his wife from the first series to close his second series...

On the last episode of Season 4, Richard Hatch wakes up as TOS Apollo next to Jane Seymour and says., "You'll never guess the crazy dream I just had..."

:thumbsup:

It would be even better if a centurion wakes up (in a bed under blankets holding a teddy bear) and actually speaks saying "what a nightmare".

[The Dirt]

I propose an amendment to your theory, which will totally recast it as a completely different theory. Everyone please feel free to add whatever pork-barrel theories you want to it. We vote at 5.

Okay, BSG has elements of the classical heroic journey. It goes a little something like this:

The traditional Hero's Journey has the following stages:

The Village (the ordinary world (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Muggles)) - the colonies/Caprica

The Herald (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Herald) brings the Call To Adventure (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CallToAdventure) - the Cylons frak things up
Answering the Call - Lets go find Earth

Receiving Supernatural Aid (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AppliedPhlebotinum) - Virtual Six, Pythian scrolls
Threshold Guardians (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ThresholdGuardians) (Crossing the First Threshold) - battling the Cylons on Kobol
Belly Of The Whale (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BellyOfTheWhale) - New Caprica
Road of Trials, the path out of the Belly of the Whale, possibly including meetings with the following characters:

The Shapeshifter (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TricksterArchetype): someone you don't trust but nonetheless need his or her help/information - Athena

The Goddess (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LoveInterests) - not applicable (maybe Starbuck?)

The Temptress (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheVamp) - Six
Atonement With the Father (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WellDoneSonGuy) - Old/young Adama relationship



Apotheosis(divinization of a person) - Cult of Baltar

Ultimate Boon: getting the reward - Earth

Refusal of the Return (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TenMinuteRetirement) - stuck on Earth?
The Return (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HesBack) / Resurrection (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BackFromTheDead) - leaving Earth
Crossing the Return Threshold - we'll see, I guess, I would guess that this is the part where a ton of people die

Freedom to Live (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SoWhatDoWeDoNow) - the end of the show

In classical heroic journeys, the hero has to travel to the underworld to retrieve a long lost love. I believe that Earth is a depiction of the underworld, and the colonials are going to find something there that they "lost".

[Osprey]

hm, intriguing ...

coudl the goddess be starbuck?

could the lost love be the 5th?

[genji2000]

I think the lost love is the Thirteenth Tribe. But then, I would.

The traditional Hero's Journey has the following stages...

I've been reading about The Matrix (Last DVDs I'm Watching), trying to work out WTF is going on, and I saw something similar regarding Creation Stories:

Creation - fairly obvious
Exit from the Garden - first Cylon war
Quest for the Holy Grail - the interesting bit: in my mind this is the attempt to procreate by natural means, but it could also be Earth
Reunion - with mankind