So this week I have been immersed in BSG season 4 DVD’s, intent on getting up to speed before the new, final season begins (tonight). I have some random idle questions about various aspects of the series’ mythology that I thought I’d throw out there. Some of them I’m sure the Cafe Society can easily answer, some are merely speculative:
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How much time has elapsed on the series thus far? (Basically, how long since the Cylons destroyed the 12 colonies unitl the first survivors touched down on the post-apocalypse Earth?)
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How far was Earth from the 12 colonies, and where in the galaxy were the original 12 colonies, Kobol, the Eye of Jupiter, etc.? (Of course, this Q was suggested by the last scene of season 4, with the zoom-out from Starbuck’s ship, showing the galaxy, Earth’s location, and the location of BSG’s fleet - is there a fan- or official site that charts the BSG’s journey through the galaxy?)
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Were the 12 colonies located in one solar system? Or were they scattered around a particular spiral arm? (I’m assuming there was one colony per planet here.)
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Are the humans or Cylons aware of the existence of other sentient species aside from themselves?
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What personality archetypes are the Cylons modelled after? (A while back, I started a thread suggesting that the Cylons modelled themselves after the 12 Lords of Kobol, i.e. Olympian Gods, but that doesn’t seem likely anymore at this stage in the storyline.)
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Did Adama and Roslin frak on New Caprica?
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Where does Doc Cottle get his endless supply of cigarettes from? (Given that they left the 12 colonies in a big hurry, I doubt there was time to horde or store away any quantities, it’s not a necessity that would likely be produced within the fleet - and at the rate Cottle goes through them, he should’ve exhausted his supply of them by the end of the miniseries.)
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What’s with the Eights prancing around naked on the baseships? (Not complaining mind you, but it seems like they’re the only Cylons who do this.)
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Given that the Galactica fleet did not know that the Pegasus had escaped the Armaggeddon as well, is it possible that there were other ships, even battlestars, that escape and have scattered to other points in the galaxy - or is this the truly the last remnants of humanity following Adama, Roslin & crew?
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What are the Cylon model designations for Tighe, Anders, Tori & Tyrol? Is it just me, or is it strange that one of the ‘Final Five’ must be designated a Seven, thereby sympbolically seperating the Eights from the other common model Cylons?
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Why was Six afraid of Seven? (Because Seven Eight Nine! Ahahahahahaa!)
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Feel free to throw in your own idol questions/speculations here.