Unsolicited BSG theories and speculation

Mar 08, 2009 20:46

Next week, the first part of BSG's three hour series finale will air. For some weeks now, I've been meaning to collect everything that I know and everything that I predict into one post and see if I can trash-compactor it all into some semblance of a theory, but I haven't gotten around to it 'til now. So here we are.

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bsg, sammich

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snarkhunter March 9 2009, 03:02:27 UTC
I'm interested in the fact that you keep coming back to the Lords of Kobol, but you don't ever talk about the Cylon God. The Cylon God has been gaining in importance as each season goes by--especially once Baltar took him up. I've actually rather seen the show as pushing towards monotheism--or, perhaps, a kind of polyrepresentational monotheism, in which all the gods are really one god.

And what if the Lords of Kobol are not gods, and maybe even not human or Cylon, but something else entirely?

I feel like Kara's Not!Leoben vision belongs to the same category as the visions of Baltar and Caprica, and those three are, with Roslin, the three most religious characters on the show. Roslin has visions, too--of Elosha. So we have two believers in monotheism and two believers in polytheism receiving visions. And then there's the opera house--shared by Roslin, Kara, Caprica, and Athena. (Athena doesn't seem to have much of a religious leaning, but she is Hera's mother, so she belongs there...St. Anne, perhaps?)

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thepresidentrix March 9 2009, 03:35:06 UTC
Ah, well you see, it's not that I find the existence of the Cylon god especially unlikely or that I'm not ready to accept that the Cylon god may be the one true god of the BSGverse, working behind the scenes and directing the course of history ( ... )

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kurosawa March 9 2009, 03:30:06 UTC
oooooo, I was hoping the last episode would be two hours! or you know, the last two episodes would be two hours each ^_^ so where did you hear this?

I figured there was always the option that if they were able to kill the cylon rebels they could go back to their home planets. or at least Caprica, because Sam and the other people left on Caprica survived, so I don't see why it isn't possible.

basically, I don't have any theories. even reading your theories makes my brain want to explode. I think Daniel is probably Kara's father. or if he's not, he's going to come back somehow.

but yeah..... brain is mushy mush. I'm just going to watch and soak everything up.

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thepresidentrix March 9 2009, 03:38:34 UTC
I can't remember where I read that the finale would be two hours, but I think (hope?) it was a reputable source. The first hour is supposed to air next Friday, and then they'll be showing all three hours in a row the Friday after that. I can dig it.

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kurosawa March 9 2009, 03:45:58 UTC
I was invited to a birthday party on the night of the finale and I said I would "maybe" go. but of course, there's no way I'm not staying home and watching the end of BSG!

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valancy_s March 13 2009, 20:19:38 UTC
It would be kind of interesting, for example, to leave permanently unresolved the question whether Head!Six is a morally-ambiguous, capricious demi-goddess or simply a product of Baltar's imagination

It's hilarious that you would say this, because I'd lay pretty good odds that this is NOT going to be resolved - because the writers themselves have no explanation.

In fact, that is, I am sorry to say, my cynical comment on all your interesting theories. I think you've done much more work than the writers do. I wasn't even expecting them to explain the replication of Kara's Viper, tattoos, ring and tags, any more than I'm expecting them to explain why her burnt-out body was on Earth instead of the "Maelstrom" planet where it belongs. With only 3 hours left in the series, I think we'll see a lot of personal stories (many of which I expect to lead to me crying), some mysticism and a few dramatic special effects. There'll be some "explanation," sure, but years, details, even causes, will surprise me.

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thepresidentrix March 14 2009, 07:14:46 UTC
Wow. That is one very likely possibility that had totally escaped my attention:

No coherent answers, at all. :o(

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valancy_s March 14 2009, 13:54:44 UTC
As I said, I am cynical! Maybe there will be real answers. We'll know soon!

I can't decide if I want to upload a bunch of BSG icons in honor of the finale or if it's not worth it, since I'd have no use for them a few weeks later.

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thepresidentrix March 17 2009, 07:55:03 UTC
You can never have too many Lee!

Do you think if I work on it reeeally hard, I can be cynical in time for Friday? Because just at this very moment, I feel mostly frustrated, disappointed and slightly betrayed. (Not to mention foolish for having feelings of that magnitude for a tv show in the first place). I'm just not doing a very good letting go of the little dream I sort of didn't even know I had until now (now, when I know it can't possibly happen) of a last season packed with wonderful, memorable little Lee moments that really show his character come to full fruition. I need to get jaded and detached pronto, or I won't be able to enjoy the show for what it is.

But I'm not detached. I'm mad.

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magyarchick March 14 2009, 03:44:13 UTC
I'm still holding out that the Lords of Kobol were the creators of all Cylon and non-Cylons. I think that everyone is a machine- organic or cylon. And that somewhere out there is someone guiding it all. I think the music part is interesting because it's actually been proven (and I won't get this completely right, because it's been forever since I read it) but the way that everything, from atoms to waves of light and planets move is very musical. Also I think we can't rule out some play by the centurion cylons ( ... )

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thepresidentrix March 14 2009, 07:16:21 UTC
Ooh, that's a cool idea: they all go back in time and live on Kobol - which doesn't have any time travel problems, and which preserves the cycle of time theme!

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