BSG: Revelations

[beccatoria]

So, I watched this Saturday morning, then spent the rest of the weekend going to a Bruce Springsteen concert (which was awesome, and he dedicated the encore to Tim Russert), playing insanely cracktacular games that didn't really help my non-crack objectivity re: this episode, and visiting my aunt in west wales, and my cousin blew my mind. None of

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[raincitygirl]

The notion of there being a habitable section of the planet is certainly likely. Parts of the Colonies were still habitable and they got severely nuked, although in this universe there are better anti-radiation meds so it's possible that the Cylon started to decontaminate areas of the Colonies and the Rag Tag Fleet do not have the resources to do so. I worry about them settling there, though. Because it's a space-based show. That would be...strange. Like a few episodes like New Caprica, sure. But I imagine they'll get back in the air again. If only because a more habitable planet that isn't Earth would be preferable to an irradiated home. Though the spectre of whether the Cylon will find them is always present. I think that psychologically the mythic "Earth" offered some sort of religious protection from that possibility?

It looks like they were in the ruins of a big city. I imagine that a large population centre would get signifcantly more irradiated than wilderness areas, just as we saw on Caprica (and presumably the other colonies). So there may well be habitable parts far away from one of the presumed major centres of nuclear conflict. Also, from the looks of things, the conflagration happened a lot further ago than on the colonies, so in areas which weren't as irradiated in the first place, the radiation may have fallen to manageable levels in the decades or centuries that passed since the Thirteenth Colony engaged in mutually assured destruction. Certainly even in the healthier looking areas of Caprica, people still needed to shoot up with anti-rad meds to survive, and that may not be necessary here.

Honestly, at this point both New Caprica and Kobol (neihter of which has ever suffered a nuclear holocaust) would be a better place for permanent settlement, IF the One Four Five faction weren't an issue. The advantage of Earth is that unlike New Cap, Kobol, or the colonies, the 145 don't know where it is. I'm sure they'll find it before the last episode of the series, but it could at least be a good place to get their bearings. Of course, in the unlikely event that they either exterminate the 145 or convince them ot join the rebellion, they'd have a lot more options, including the Cylon homeworld (wherever it is).

I'm kind of hoping that when the 145 (plus Boomer) do show up, there's an internal split. all the Cavils seem irredeemably evil, but occasional copies of both Simon and Doral have been shown to have positive characteristics. Maybe seeing human and Cylon successfully living together might induce a few of them ot break away. Speaking of Cylons, how much did I love that there were Centurions present in Lee's big amnesty speech by the Sooper Speshul Viper. The 268 do seem to be continuing to treat them as junior partners rather than slaves, which is cool. I can't remember now if there were any Centurions in that last panoramic sweep.