1. Tigh (and the other three of the final five) finally reveal themselves to the Adamas and the Cylons and all concerned. Admiral Adama correctly doesn't believe it at first, asking Tigh how he lost his hair, and how he could have gone back 30 years with Adama, without revealing that he was a Cylon. Tigh has no good answer, other than that once upon a time, no one knew about the skin-jobs, and now there apparently are three rather than two kinds of Cylons (toasters, skinjobs, and skinjobs who don't know they are Cylons until some Bob Dylan music triggers them).
2. D'Anna lets us know that the 5th of the final five is not in the human fleet. Does this mean he or she is with the Cylon fleet (Baltar, Laura, etc) or somewhere else entirely?
3. A great showdown between the Cylons and the humans, in which Apollo really shows his stuff.
4. But both decide to go to Earth, the coordinates of which are now apparently revealed, rather than annihilate each other ...
But ... the Earth they find is in ruins...
Not the most original twist in the universe, but a good enough springboard for the final parts of the final season ... Why is Earth in ruins - i.e., who ruined it?
Can it be repaired?
And, how does that ruined Earth relate to ours - the one in which we are currently enjoying Battlestar Galactica?
See also ...
Battlestar Galactica's Back and Bristling! ... 4.2 Mysteries and Satisfactions ... 4.3: Deaths, Lessons, Questions ... 4.4 A Little More about Cylons ... 4.5 Mutiny on the Demetrius ... 4.6 Cylon on Cylon ... 4.9 Finally, Bill and Laura
"jumping with ideas" - Denver Post
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This episode made it very clear that there is a real guiding force in the background (Baltar's God?) leading cylons and humans to some sort of shared destiny. The way to Earth was only revealed when the cylons and and humans were together.
That and the repeating idea of "this has already happened before" would seem to indicate everything is taking place in a simulated reality with a little guidance from outside. Every time the cylons kill off the fleet (or vice-versa), it resets, flashes "Game Over", and another quarter goes into the computer. I wonder if the Final 5 are actually real physical people who have entered the simulation with their memories suppressed.
On the other hand, I have hard time picturing the show moving into the realm of simulated realities. I just hope the final revelation makes as much sense.
Interesting theory about simulated reality. But are we sure it's earth? There was no Planet of the Apes Statue of Liberty moment. I went back to look at the landscape and I'm not sure
I honestly hope there is NO simulated reality as a major part of the story. I don't think we need another 'Dallas, dream-season, moment' ever again!
Looks like a future earth they landed on, where the inhabitants destroyed themselves. I just hate that we all have to wait again.
A simulated reality would be too close to Matrix - BSG will be more creative.
But the key does reside in "it's happened before" ... which suggests some kind of time warp at play...
I'd been thinking for a while that Earth wasn't the "13th colony" but, rather, the 12 colonies had departed from Earth -- and this last episode showed us why: nuclear holocaust. (And I'm not takign credit for seeing this coming: while I'd been thinking for a while the 12 colonies had departed from Earth, I did NOT foresee the Earth-as-destroyed-cinder plot!)
Thanks for the comment, Scott.
Earth as a post-nuclear-war cinder - with humans all over space in the future, looking to find their original home planet - is the core of Isaac Asimov's robot/Foundation series, and is a pretty common trope in science fiction...
Check out Asimov's Foundation and Earth for more.
I see no reason to think it isn't Earth, but it may be that our civilization is descended not from that earlier one that destroyed itself, but from the new arrivals, this fresh wave of humans and Cylons.
Not only that, Foundation and Earth had Daneel Olivaw, a robot himself, guiding Golan Trevize back to Earth. He also found it a radioactive wasteland.
The final cylon maybe like Daneel, perhaps on the moon. That would be a satisfying conclusion.
Earth as a post-nuclear-war cinder - with humans all over space in the future, looking to find their original home planet - is the core of Isaac Asimov's robot/Foundation series
It actually wasn't a nuclear war. It was a device of some sort, implanted into Earth's crust by a few radical Spacers (who didn't want Earth to expand into space anew) that slowly began making Earth inexorably radioactive. (See Foundation and Empire for the specifics.)
Well, the "radical Spacers" could be considered to be conducting an undercover, terrorist war against Earth ... but, right, it wasn't a World War II type of all-out war...
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