If the Fleet ever does pick up transmissions from Earth it’d be interesting to see how RDM handles the language issue.
Keep in mind that Adama originally used “Earth” as a means of giving hope and pourpose to the survivors… never mind wether or not it actually existed.
However, as time moves forward, the survivors must eventually find somewhere to colonize and grow if they are to survive as a species… one assumes, and they have been pretty faithful about it, that habitable planets are few and far between… so why not head for one that supposedly exists, with hopefully friendly folks there.
I talked Mrs. Plant into watching next week.
I lied.
It is the 23rd century. Captain Kirk is there with NCC 1701, no A,B,C or bloody D.
He saves Earth by reducing the Cylons to mumbling, “Six, co-ordinate! Co-ordinate!”
I strongly suspect that I shall be posting next week with the laptop from a homeless shelter.
Dear God, let it be near a wireless hot spot.
They’d have to go some to beat the way they handled that very thing in the original series. It was a very well-crafted scene for such a cheesy show.
If there is some commonality between the 13th colony, Earth, and Our Heroes a common language would not require a great suspension of disbelief. Germanic, for example, or “Ixnay nayo Ylonscay.”
True, but if anything it would still be hard to show. Do the Colonials even mulitiple languages? Do they all speak Modern Kobolian or does the language of one colony predominate (Caprican)? We’ve heard accents, but I can’t remember any references to characters speaking a different language. Even if manking spoke a single language on Kobol the Colonies had over 2,000 years to develop their own languages. If Caprica ever gets made hopefully it’ll address this.
I think language is right up there with artificial gravity.
When a fan asked Christopher Judge of Stargate why everyone speaks English he replied, “oh, you noticed.” :rolleyes:
[EvilRDM]
When the Colonials find Earth, they’ll find Charlton Heston fighting Apes…
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In the final episode of the original show, they do receive transmissions from Earth, but Adama suspects that they are actually part of a Cylon trap. During the episode, Apollo was spending his off-time in a radio observatory on-board Galactica trying to track down the origin of the signals. In the final scene, he leaves the observatory and just afterwards one hears Neil Armstrong’s moon landing “one small step…” yada yada yada message.
I’ve always wondered if the strength of the radio transmissions during the Apollo missions were of greater strength than conventional Earth to comsat relays…in other words, are aliens more likely to intercept images of us in the midst of one of our greatest technological achievements or more likely to intercept images of some porn stars in the midst of a moneyshot being beamed to space by Cinemax?
Yes, I thought that was a pretty cool way to end the series.
I’ve always wondered if the strength of the radio transmissions during the Apollo missions were of greater strength than conventional Earth to comsat relays…in other words, are ailens more likely to intercept images of us in the midst of one of our greatest technological achievements or more likely to intercept images of some porn stars in the midst of a moneyshot being beamed to space by Cinemax?
damn squirrels hiccupping again…
I imagine if they happened to be in the right place at the right time and caught Janet Jackson having a wardrobe malfunction Adama would scream “Gaeta, prepare a jump to these co-ordinates! All ships JUMP!” Roslyn would be going, “oh, I don’t know. I urge caution.” Adama would reply, “shut up wench. I said 'jump!”
I don’t know. If I were Adama, that would just send me fleeing into the darkest reaches of space! 
The most powerful signals out there are still probably Wolfman Jack on some 60’s Mexican radio station.
He’s on a Mexican, whoa-oo, radio…
Sorry.
For those of us who missed (or possibly blocked out) BSG 1980…
How’d they end it?
-Joe
The cops roust the two motorcyclists. One asks Starbuck, “What are you rebelling against, kid?” Starbuck responds, “What’ve ya got?” and the cop makes him eat the nightstock.
I honestly don’t recall how Galactica 1980 ended its run. I think it was simply cancelled after maybe only one season, with no real resolution, due to abysmal ratings. All I recall of it was the guy from ADAM 12 was one of the stars, almost none of the original cast was around, there was some goofy boy genius in a glowing white robe (an Angel, maybe?), and at some point Wolfman Jack wound up encoutering a Cylon centurion. If memory serves, that struck me as pretty random even at age 10.
True, but unlike Stargate the Colonials have no interaction with Earthlings. We can just assume they’re speaking/writing/reading Caprican and it’s being translated for our benefit.
I guess one could postulate that the Colonial language ought to be a derivative of Ancient Greek, or maybe an intermediate between Mycenaean and Ancient Greek, given the chronology according to the Sacred Scrolls, and assuming the “present” of the BSG universe is our “present” as well (this gets really hard to keep straigt if you think about relativity too hard). The trouble is, they’ve got a few Classical Latin names thrown in, as well as names of Egyptian, and possibly Germanic and Celtic origin, if not many other languages, depending on how seriously one wants to take what we hear. I guess one shouldn’t take it seriously at all.
We can probably ignore race, ethnicity and language for the most part. The Greek mythology is hard to explain but it could be as simple as the Lords of Kobol deliberately pulling a Goa’uld trick. They became powerful and decided they wanted to be viewed as gods so they just picked an ancient, long forgotten Earth mythology and took their names from it.
Time travel could explain some of this as well. “This has all happened before, and this will all happen again.” Maybe they’re trapped in a temporal loop of their own making. Each time the cycle repeats, they figure out more via the increasing frequency of visions, divinations and prescience. Something like this:
Humans and Cylons work out their differences and Hera is only the first of other human-Cylon hybrids. These hybrids become powerful but arrogant and somewhat foolish. They come to the conclusion that they are the Lords of Kobol and they have to travel back in time and become the Lords of Kobol in order to ensure their own existence comes to be. The Lords of Kobol eventually find themselves at war with each other, the 13 tribes of man flee to the colonies, the Colonials create Cylons, Cylons and humans eventually work out their differences resulting in the hybrids who eventually go back in time to become the Lords of Kobol, etc; etc.
But as I said, each time the cycle repeats they figure out a bit more about the trap they’re in. This time, the 13th tribe took off in another direction and along the way they left the probe hoping it would change events sufficiently to break the temporal loop.
There’s no paradox because when you travel through time you also create an alternate universe. So the Lords of Kobol in this universe are from an alternate future universe. Once they break the loop, everyone gets to finally move forward. They’re free to find Earth and the 13th colony, or not. But at least their destinies are no longer pre-determined.
Would that be too hokey for RDM?