So let's try to figure out what would have happened in SGU through seasons 3-the end, had the show continued. Not flights of fancy on what we *wish* had happened, but what seemed to be foreshadowed.
Here's what I've got:
1) Eli would have ascended
2) Eli's and Rush's cyber-girlfriends would have returned in some form
3) The drone fleet would have been defeated
4) The attacking aliens would finally have explained themselves, and become allies of the Destiny.
5) Scott and Chloe would have gotten married and pregnant, but probably wouldn't have had a kid before the show ended.
6) The Lucien plot would have been resolved
7) Some *other* alien threat would have emerged that both the Blues and Destiny would need to work against.
8) They get the final message from God or Whatever
9) They don't make it home again
10) They start a new civilization on the fringes of the universe. Possibly with Chloe's kid as the first birth.
Given the repeated implication that Destiny only works when Young, Rush, and Wray work together, I suspect the completion of the mission would resolve around Destiny, Lucien, and Blues working together.
My hunch is the aliens are attacking Destiny because it was in some way responsible for the destruction of their homeworld. I assume the only Blues that exist live in a fleet, and have for quite some time, seeking revenge.
I *wonder* if they actually would have made it out of the galaxy they were in by the end of the series. Dialog in the finale implies they were anticipating 3 more years to cross it, which might be a throwaway line, or it might be a hint about what we're missing.
I also wonder if they actually would have gone *out* of the universe itself.
Which brings us to the 'message from creation.' Given the frequent religious aspect of the show, and blurring the line between science and faith, obviously, it's *got* to be some kind of religious message. But of course speculating too much on what God might say in a postcard is going to irritate both the religious viewers *AND* the atheist ones (See: The ending of Battlestar Galactica), so you can't really go too far with that one. You can't really turn 'The Message from God" into a bully-pulpit for your own views, and Wright and Mallozi are smart enough to know this, so it's got to be something upbeat and nebulous. Again, my *hunch* is that it would have been something like "I'm have been waiting for you on the other side of this line. Come to Me and Know." Then some of 'em (Rush definitely) cross over, while the rest set up camp on the edge of space and start civilization over again.
Eli might use his ascended powers to take one or two of 'em home again, I suppose, but I really don't think they were getting back. "It was never about going home, it was about getting where we're going." Also seems like the trip was more important than the destination, which suggests THe Message would be something of an anticlimax, and the 'step behind the curtain' thing would seem to fit.
Something I really wonder about is *why* this series took place in one year, rather than in more-or-less real time like all the other series.
So that's what I'm thinking. Anyone else got any ideas? Guesses? Theories?
Here's what I've got:
1) Eli would have ascended
2) Eli's and Rush's cyber-girlfriends would have returned in some form
3) The drone fleet would have been defeated
4) The attacking aliens would finally have explained themselves, and become allies of the Destiny.
5) Scott and Chloe would have gotten married and pregnant, but probably wouldn't have had a kid before the show ended.
6) The Lucien plot would have been resolved
7) Some *other* alien threat would have emerged that both the Blues and Destiny would need to work against.
8) They get the final message from God or Whatever
9) They don't make it home again
10) They start a new civilization on the fringes of the universe. Possibly with Chloe's kid as the first birth.
Given the repeated implication that Destiny only works when Young, Rush, and Wray work together, I suspect the completion of the mission would resolve around Destiny, Lucien, and Blues working together.
My hunch is the aliens are attacking Destiny because it was in some way responsible for the destruction of their homeworld. I assume the only Blues that exist live in a fleet, and have for quite some time, seeking revenge.
I *wonder* if they actually would have made it out of the galaxy they were in by the end of the series. Dialog in the finale implies they were anticipating 3 more years to cross it, which might be a throwaway line, or it might be a hint about what we're missing.
I also wonder if they actually would have gone *out* of the universe itself.
Which brings us to the 'message from creation.' Given the frequent religious aspect of the show, and blurring the line between science and faith, obviously, it's *got* to be some kind of religious message. But of course speculating too much on what God might say in a postcard is going to irritate both the religious viewers *AND* the atheist ones (See: The ending of Battlestar Galactica), so you can't really go too far with that one. You can't really turn 'The Message from God" into a bully-pulpit for your own views, and Wright and Mallozi are smart enough to know this, so it's got to be something upbeat and nebulous. Again, my *hunch* is that it would have been something like "I'm have been waiting for you on the other side of this line. Come to Me and Know." Then some of 'em (Rush definitely) cross over, while the rest set up camp on the edge of space and start civilization over again.
Eli might use his ascended powers to take one or two of 'em home again, I suppose, but I really don't think they were getting back. "It was never about going home, it was about getting where we're going." Also seems like the trip was more important than the destination, which suggests THe Message would be something of an anticlimax, and the 'step behind the curtain' thing would seem to fit.
Something I really wonder about is *why* this series took place in one year, rather than in more-or-less real time like all the other series.
So that's what I'm thinking. Anyone else got any ideas? Guesses? Theories?
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