Are they going to find Earth?

[buerger23]

My stand on this subject is that they're going to find it. But in what time period I do not know?

Mabye they find Earth and give us a helping hand (Pyramids of Giza, Nazca Lines, South America Pyramids?)

[JDS]

I think they will find Earth.

I have no idea what will happen, but it will be VERY lame if they show up and it's present-day earth.

Now if humans on Earth are still cavemen, THAT will be interesting. If humans are highly-advanced future-people, that will be even MORE interesting.

But at this point, I don't think they can/will finish the series without finding Earth.

[Mercifull]

Earth is going to play a huge part of Season 4 but I just cannot comprehend right now how! lol

[BklynBruzer]

I think it'd be cool if they found earth in like the first two or three episodes, then the rest of the season could wrap up plotlines and explore interactions with earth.

[Serenity]

It has been stated that they will find Earth, and maybe earlier than expected (as in not the season finale).


Personally I hope that there is no civilization whatsoever on Earth. A present-day Earth would be the lamest thing since G1980, but an advanced civilization would be a cop-out too.
"Crossroads, Part II" sort of rules out a devastated Earth, but an inhabited, but habitable one works too, to have at least a glimmer of hope. My theory being that mankind is actually from Earth and left it thousands of years ago. In the meantime the planet could have recovered from whatever disaster happened there.

And while it's important that they find Earth, it's certainly not the most important part of the show for me. The search for Earth is background for me, but not the sole purpose of the show. My biggest fear for Season 4 is that the writers will focus too much on that and the Final Five, thus placing story over the characters (characters over story is one thing that initially drew me to BSG).

[JDS]

I think it would be pretty cool if they show up at Earth with the entire Cylon fleet in tow and the Earth civilization just opens up with some massive planetary weaponry and toasts the Cylons. I mean it wouldn't have much story potential (unless maybe they saved it for the finale), but it sure would be a hell of a lightshow.

[Serenity]

Which is exactly why I don't want it. BSG is better than that. Just another pointless space battle that science fiction already has too many of.

While it might be nice of the Colonials to find an ally to help them defeat the Cylons, that would be a deux ex machina, conveniently solving all - or most of - their problems, with little to no work of their own.

[alpha5099]

I want them to find Earth, but I don't want to see much of Earth. I know he was joking, but I really kind of like Olmos' idea, where Galactica comes into orbit, but gets nukes, and then someone congratulates the president for saving the world, and the president's advisers are the Cylons. I don't like the Bush angle, it seems overly politically bent for a show that is obviously political, but tends to show a lot of different perspectives. Personally, I see Aaron Doral as the President's right hand man. But if the Final Five turn out to be on the human side, it would be a great surprise if it's Tyrol or one of them instructing the president to nuke the fleet.

My ideal ending for the show, however, is stolen from another movie. I took an anime course last semester, and we watched Farewell to Space Battleship Yamato. It was supposed to wrap up this super popular series, but as none of us had seen the series, it was this long, boring mess of characters we didn't care about. But about halfway through, I realized that if this were the Galactica finale, I'd be on the edge of my seat.

What I want to see happen is that the Galactica jumps in to Earth orbit. They have a few moments to celebrate the momentous occasion, when the most ridiculous Cylon fleet jumps in, ready to stake their claim to Earth. I'm talking forty or fifty basestars. And so begins the most frakking amazing space battle in the history of time. Everyone, everyone, EVERYONE dies (alright, Baltar and Six get away in a Raptor), and Lee, the last survivor, with his last ounce of strength, pulls another Pegasus and kamikazes into the Cylons to save an Earth he's never seen. The last scene, the space rubble orbits Earth, and Baltar and Six's Raptor makes the descent to Earth. It disappears from sight, and the series is over.

Earth is a required destination at this point, but honestly, I won't be satisfied with anything I see down there (here?). So I say never see the surface.

[JDS]

I don't think it would be believable if the Galactica killed 40 or 50 basestars.

That leads me to another topic, but I'll save that for another thread later.

I think that for a Cylon fleet to be large enough to be really impressive, it would be WAY too big to do anything less than annihilate the human fleet instantly, and then descent to Earth and build their happy Cylon civilization.

...unless Earth were populated by an advanced civilization and they got involved.

[BklynBruzer]

I want earth to be an advanced civilization. Like, they've got stuff similar to Battlestars, plus, when the Cylons jump into orbit, the moon comes into view, the moon rotates and there's this BIG FRAKKING military base taking up like a third of the moon, which opens fire on the cylons.

[JDS]

"That's no moon..."

[Protostar]

I hope that they find Earth at least in its current state. To me, if they found Earth when earlier civilizations inhabited it (the Incas, Mayans, etc) it would be kind of boring. It would be the typical, extremely advanced civilization meets primitives. How would they even communicate? Sign language? At least current civilization could be brought up to speed much faster to prepare for the possible arrival of the Cyclons.

[JDS]

Hm.

If the Cylons showed up, I wonder how effectively we COULD defend against them (at least with Galactica's help)?

I mean, in BSG, the most powerful weapons are nukes, and we happen to have a LOT of them. Furthermore, we can still operate most of our vital computer systems with no networking...we lose the internet, but most basic functions are self-contained. In theory, we could launch a MAJOR devastating strike on a Cylon fleet in orbit.

Of course, we'd need warning in order to prepare for it and have everything ready to go before they showed up. Otherwise they'd just show up and go BOOM.

[BklynBruzer]

We'd have trouble getting nukes into space in large numbers, though... I dunno if current Ballistic Missiles are space-capable.

[JDS]

That's how they work, actually. They fly up into space, then get angled down, aim at their targets, and fall back through the atmosphere.

Early space vehicles were launched on plain old ICBM boosters.

All you'd have to do to launch our current strategic nukes at basestars would be to re-aim them to just keep going straight up instead of turning and falling back down.

[BklynBruzer]

Woo, we're set to nuke aliens! Huzzah!

[JDS]

Um. I guess. Somehow I think we might have larger problems to deal with...but it's nice to know we've got options for any eventualities :D

[Jordashebasics]

I imagine that Earth will be represented clearly, but I think that RDM probably wouldn't want to make a call like what time period they'd arrive in, unless it was essential to the story.
So... I suspect that Earth will be visible, but it won't be obvious when in time it takes place.

[JDS]

I guess the problem for me is that, if Earth is kept vague enough that we don't know what time period it takes place in, then how important of a role will it really play? If Earth just ends up being an unimportant blue sphere in the background, I think it's just going to feel like a cop-out. I mean I don't know for sure, because I don't know the plan, but that's my expectation.

[buerger23]

Hear me out what if Earth is the home of the frakking cylons?

[buerger23]

Earth is going to have a huge planetary shield (star wars) sorry! Cylons r going to jump to because of some trap the galactica and earth set up and they're gonna go right into the shield

[JDS]

Hear me out what if Earth is the home of the frakking cylons?Huh.

What if WE are all humanoid Cylons :eek:

[Mercifull]

Huh.

What if WE are all humanoid Cylons :eek:

I aint seen a girls spine glow red yet... :P

[JDS]

I aint seen a girls spine glow red yet... :PThree options here:

(A) You're not using the right position.

(B) You haven't installed mirrors on your ceilings.

(C) You're just not trying hard enough.

[Mercifull]

That's harsh :(

[Sgt_Smiles]

Three options here:

(A) You're not using the right position.

(B) You haven't installed mirrors on your ceilings.

(C) You're just not trying hard enough.

LOL win:D well if the shows any guide they like it woman on top

[BklynBruzer]

Three options here:

(A) You're not using the right position.

(B) You haven't installed mirrors on your ceilings.

(C) You're just not trying hard enough.

Don't forget:

(D) You haven't had a woman in the right situation yet.

ZING! :D

[JDS]

That's even harsher :D

It's okay Mercifull, keep trying. One day you'll get it right and her spine will light up like a Christmas tree!

[genji2000]

I find it strange reading threads that include posts by JDS, Mercifull, Sgt_Smiles, BklynBruzer, etc. It's like stumbling upon some ancient civilisation, the knowledge and skills of which are lost forever, leaving us to hypothesise over WTF they were on about.

[The Dirt]

:lol: Knock it off, you two!

I don't think Earth will have a huge planetary shield. That's way too Space Balls for BSG. I think that when they find Earth, they will be greeted by tons of humans in all white. They will have their own fleet of Battlestars (except they will be called Battleearths, because they're from Earth - duh!) and when the Cylons show up with their fleet, the Battleearths will swing around the Moon's dark side to trick the Cylons and blow them all up. I just hope that when they find Earth in the last episode, it won't be something lame like a nuclear wasteland. That would totally ruin the show for me! Anyway, I can't wait until Season 4 starts! See you guys in '08!

EDIT: Genji, you just stole my idea (which, of course I stole from you, but that's besides the point). Lets resurrect all of the old threads so we can laugh at all the old theories and JDS dropping from this forum the minute Cally was killed.

[genji2000]

I'm wondering if we should ban all new threads until January '09 and force people to address and comment on existing threads only, in response to the ludicrous hiatus Sci Fi channel execs are putting us all through.

[thevarrior]

I don't think Earth will have a huge planetary shield. That's way too Space Balls for BSG.

But it's soooo coooooool D: D: D:

The thing is, I would rather they not have found Earth until the last two episodes or so and then when they reach Earth, they find out that it's technologically advanced with starships capable of blowing the Cylons to shreds. That would have been the single coolest ending for me.

[The Dirt]

Meh... too Hollywood. I would rather explore a bit of the aftermath... I don't like characters walking into the sunset with a bunch of blown up shit in the foreground, with looming questions still waiting to be answered. If they reached Earth and found that it was an advanced civilization, so what? We would never get to find out anything important about them - a total deus ex machina (read: shit).

[Prolescum]

The writers have to keep it bleak and will probably film the rest of the show in black and white from the moment they reach earth, (in the mid 1940's), where the cylons, after making a pact for technology with the 'earthlings', get tetchy about another planet full of annoying, greedy humans, and start doing experiments on yokels for some 'master plan' of something or other as promised by their god.