# Where is Battlestar Galactica heading? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 9, 2006, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-battlestar-galactica-heading/383424 "2006-12-09T01:50:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2006, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-battlestar-galactica-heading/383424/1 "2006-12-09T01:50:57Z")
Does Ron D. Moore even have a clue? I know BSG is not Bablyon 5 with all seasons planned out in advance. Is RDM just making everything up as he goes along, or does have stuff like the “'real” nature of Earth and the Lords of Kobol in the series bible? Doe ---
**Author:** ![anu-la1979](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/47e85d/32.png) [@anu-la1979](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anu-la1979)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2006, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-battlestar-galactica-heading/383424/2 "2006-12-09T05:41:57Z")
If you go to [www.eonline.com](http://www.eonline.com) and read RDM’s interview with Kristin, he seems pretty adamant that they do have stuff planned out (including the 5 remaining models, Hera as the shape of things to come, and Roslin’s on-going connection as the leader in the prophecies) ---
**Author:** ![sturmhauke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2006, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-battlestar-galactica-heading/383424/3 "2006-12-09T06:21:19Z")
> [@](#): > > Where is Battlestar Galactica heading? Why, to Earth of course. Haven’t you been paying attention? Even if Moore is totally pulling stuff out of his ass, it’s still better than most of the other junk out there. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2006, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-battlestar-galactica-heading/383424/4 "2006-12-09T20:20:53Z")
[QUOTE=sturmhauke] Why, to Earth of course. Haven’t you been paying attention? [/QUOTE] But what Earth? Earth in 2007? A Buck Rogers Earth 500 years in the future? Or a **really** far-future Earth dominated by intelligent apes? I mean, the Fleet still hasn’t managed to shake the Cylons off their tails. They always seem to show up sooner or later. If the Fleet arrives in the Solar System, it’s going to make a big difference whether Earth has the technology to fight the Cylons. If we don’t, we’re dead meat. Thanks a lot, Adama! ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2006, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-battlestar-galactica-heading/383424/5 "2006-12-09T20:35:17Z")
The way the show is going, if and when they find earth it won’t come down to a who has the superior fire power kind of thing. It’ll be some weird spiritual religious mumbo-jumbo that decides humanity’s fate. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2006, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-battlestar-galactica-heading/383424/6 "2006-12-09T20:35:50Z")
**BG** raises a point I’ve often wondered myself. We know where the fleet is going, we do not know when they’ll get there. In theory, the Fleet could be the “Army of Light” that is supposed to main event the Armageddon PPV. Or they may find a radioactive rock… ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2006, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-battlestar-galactica-heading/383424/7 "2006-12-09T21:31:36Z")
[QUOTE=BrainGlutton] But what Earth? Earth in 2007? A Buck Rogers Earth 500 years in the future? Or a **really** far-future Earth dominated by intelligent apes?!.. [/QUOTE] The Fleet **cannot** arrive at present day (or even _near_ future] Earth. First of all it’d be very hard to deal with the whole language issue. As long as the Colonials don’t interact with Earthlings we can assume they’re actually speaking Caprican and it’s being translated for our sake. If they arrived at our Earth in the present day RDM would have to switch between showing everyone speaking English, then as soon as an Earthling showed up switching to some form of Greek or Sanskrit. Nobody wants to see Galactica:2010. :eek: My money’s on Earth in a **very** distant future. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2006, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-battlestar-galactica-heading/383424/8 "2006-12-09T22:13:52Z")
Judging from comments in the various podcasts, I think Moore is making stuff up as he goes along. If they find present day Earth, the common Greek background could provide an excuse for ancient Greek scholars to be able to understand Caprican. Starbuck, who is the best phiologist in the fleet, would learn English, Russian and Mandarin in half an hour and teach it to the rest of the staff in time for next week’s show. ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2006, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-battlestar-galactica-heading/383424/9 "2006-12-10T01:34:45Z")
seriously… they will end up in earth’s past, about 6k years or so… 2 survivors… Adama and Eve. And thus begins a new story… ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2006, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-battlestar-galactica-heading/383424/10 "2006-12-10T02:09:37Z")
[QUOTE=simster] seriously… they will end up in earth’s past, about 6k years or so… 2 survivors… Adama and Eve. [/QUOTE] No, Starbuck will be the survivor in 1850 Massachusetts where she will meet a guy named Herman. ---
**Author:** ![Lightray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightray/32/391_2.png) [@Lightray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightray)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2006, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-battlestar-galactica-heading/383424/11 "2006-12-10T03:24:06Z")
Ron Moore is both carefully planning ahead for where BSG is going _and_ he is making it up as he goes along. They’re not exclusive of each other. He’s got an idea of where the series is headed, how he wants certain events to fall out, and what conclusion he wants to reach. Along the way he’s been taking ideas that the writers think are cool and using them while filling in the details of the big picture. ---
**Author:** ![mrklutz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ebca7d/32.png) [@mrklutz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrklutz)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2006, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-battlestar-galactica-heading/383424/12 "2006-12-11T20:49:23Z")
[QUOTE=BrainGlutton] …Or a **really** far-future Earth dominated by intelligent apes? [/QUOTE] Heh. Now I have a mental image of Olmos muttering “Damn dirty cylons.” I don’t expect the series to continue past the discovery of earth. The conflict with the cylons will be resolved in some fashion at that point, I’d think – and I suspect **levdrakon** is right that it will be a mystical sort of resolution. If they do it well, it will be a primarily character-driven resolution as characters on both sides develop. Given that both the cylons and the humans are religious, that will necessarily be a factor, but I’m hoping we don’t see anything overtly miraculous. Then again, I’m notoriously bad at predicting such things. ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2006, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-battlestar-galactica-heading/383424/13 "2006-12-11T20:59:37Z")
It reminds me of the first episode of (the otherwise forgettable) _Galactica 1980_, when the fleet finally locates Earth and realizes that, technologically speaking, we are not advanced enough to defend ourselves against the Cylons. They show a video ‘simulation’ of a Cylon raider sweeping through a major Earth city, blowing up buildings. That’s when they realize that they’ll have to keep their arrival a secret, for Earth’s own protection. I forget what happens after that, it has something to do with going back in time and fighting Nazis. Seriously. ---
**Author:** ![Lightray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightray/32/391_2.png) [@Lightray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightray)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2006, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-battlestar-galactica-heading/383424/14 "2006-12-11T22:03:10Z")
[QUOTE=Skammer] I forget what happens after that, it has something to do with going back in time and fighting Nazis. Seriously. [/QUOTE] One of the Quorum of Twelve went back in time on his flying motorcycle (with the turbo boost button. seriously) to _help_ the Nazis so that Earth would have been developed enough to help fight off the Cylons. The two lunkheads went back in time to stop him, foolishly not taking the super space baseball team kids with them. Or even, Wolfman Jack. Because, seriously, who else would you want to fight Nazis with? Anyway, the biggest eye-roller was in the opening episode when they’ve discovered Earth, their camera pulls up a view of L.A. rushhour traffic, and all the Galacticans marvel over how efficient and skilled the Earthlings are. Even as a 12-year old, I knew the series would stink. But everyone is usually happy when Moore pulls out some old series riffs, and we’ve got Baltar on the BaseStar now, headed for capture and imprisonment on the Galactica. The Cylon supergun on Ice Planet Zero shouldn’t be too long in coming, and then, they’ve already set up Hera to be the re-imaged Dr. Zee! ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2006, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-battlestar-galactica-heading/383424/15 "2006-12-11T22:56:08Z")
I would be satisfied if Earth is actually dealt with, one way or another. Let the Capricans arrive and find a radioactive rock. Let them find an Earth that can help them drive off the Cylons, but do so with the knowledge that the Cylons are Still Out There. But don’t come up with some wussy copout. Let the Capricans arrive and find an Earth that could never survive against the Cylons - so they make the noble choice to lead the Cylons away from Earth. Bleah. I can totally see us ending up with a “Earth sure was nice, but we left, that’s about it”. -Joe ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2006, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-battlestar-galactica-heading/383424/16 "2006-12-11T22:57:37Z")
Damn. Last one was supposed to start with “Don’t”. -Joe ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2006, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-battlestar-galactica-heading/383424/17 "2006-12-11T23:54:09Z")
[QUOTE=Merijeek] (Don’t) Let the Capricans arrive and find an Earth that could never survive against the Cylons - so they make the noble choice to lead the Cylons away from Earth. [/QUOTE] If Ron Moore does that, I will piss in his Scotch. ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2006, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-battlestar-galactica-heading/383424/18 "2006-12-12T22:39:56Z")
[QUOTE=sturmhauke] Why, to Earth of course. Haven’t you been paying attention? Even if Moore is totally pulling stuff out of his ass, it’s still better than most of the other junk out there. [/QUOTE] Atlantis, of course. 😛