BSG finds Earth?

[mahram]

So what year do you think it will be if they discover earth. As in the time in the show. Will it be way in the future 2200's something, or will it be way in the past like 1200's, or in the present. It would be cool if they had it like in the 2100's. You have earth ships intercepting the galactica, or the galactica being chase by cylons and entering earth space and they are saved by earth crusiers that would be sweet.

[Sci-Fi]

RDM said they would never find Earth. It is a neverending journey, a case study on how humans organize themselves, what they believe in, and exploring their hopes and dreams. It would be like classic programs of the past, Wagon Train, The Fugitive, etc. You make a few stops but somebody, a guest star(s), is introduced and tells their story along with the main cast. Some may decide to settle at one of the stops, a few may die, while the rest continue on to find a promised land, a new beginning, or rediscover hope and/or religion.

RDM could make BSG even more powerful by adding a "message" or "the moral of the story" into most of the episodes. That is what made "The Twilight Zone", "The Outer Limits", and even "Star Trek" so memorable. As long as it isn't seen as preachy or advocating a certain point of view, it should work out nicely. Sci-Fi should make one think and even ask questions about their own lives. Getting people to converse about the show or a controversial subject is usually a Sci-Fi trademark since it is happening somewhere else in another time and place far, far away.

At least half the cast has been focused on and their characters developed in season 1. Expect to see the other half get the same treatment in season 2.

Reaching or finding "Earth" would be the final episodes of the series, unless there is a spinoff series to explore what happens after contact. How would the Colonials know if they found the real Earth? Or is it just a 13th Tribe settlement? If one was to look at out own local star map just 12.5 light years away from Earth:
http://anzwers.org/free/universe/12lys.html

Look how many star systems the Colonials may have to explore before finding Earth. They could be zig-zagging for years and even then may miss Earth. Using the "Arrow of Apollo" to open the "Tomb/Temple of Athena" (they still have to find the Tomb too) may only give a general direction the 13th tribe took, not the actual coordinates. If they know or find the actual coordinates in the tomb, then that would *suggest* that the Colonials may have originally migrated from Earth. Then one could say the Earth the Colonials find *may* be far advanced or at least equals in technology. It would depend on if the 13th tribe kept records and continued to develop technologically or possibly abandoned technology and is in a more primative state of development. Most fans want to see an Earth society that is space faring and deep space explorers, has settled on other planets, and advanced rather than the BSG1980 version or a replay of "The Day the Earth Stood Still", "War of the Worlds", or "Independence Day". Then you could have that one climatic battle to finally end the Cylon threat or start the "Circle of Life" again with just a few survivors left from the carnage. Then again the 13th tribe may have developed their own version of Cylons and Earth or the planet they settled on is just a dead world now with no survivors from either side or the 13th tribe may have packed up and moved on.

Lots of possibilities for story arcs. Plenty of directions or misdirections the writers can explore. Let's wait and see what happens and hopefully BSG is allowed to tell its full story this time around or at least run for 5-7 years or more.

[Dahak]

Everything Sci-Fi said is correct.
However to answer the question if they find Earth at any time other than "now" I would be annoyed.
The future (which would make everything too easy and if anything is true about BSG (either version) making things easier for the Colonials is not going to happen. Also it's a cop out.
The past would serve no purpose. If the show needs to show primitive humans for whatever reason it would be very easy to show some group of humans who left the 13th tribe before they got to Earth. Earth though should never be reached.

[mahram]

thats what people always say, I remember in smallville when they promise clark would never fly in the show, but they broke that promise. I think somewhere in the end of season 3 they will find earth. I hope they dont do a present time earth, remember battlestargalactica 1980,...yuck

RDM said they would never find Earth. It is a neverending journey, a case study on how humans organize themselves, what they believe in, and exploring their hopes and dreams. It would be like classic programs of the past, Wagon Train, The Fugitive, etc. You make a few stops but somebody, a guest star(s), is introduced and tells their story along with the main cast. Some may decide to settle at one of the stops, a few may die, while the rest continue on to find a promised land, a new beginning, or rediscover hope and/or religion.

RDM could make BSG even more powerful by adding a "message" or "the moral of the story" into most of the episodes. That is what made "The Twilight Zone", "The Outer Limits", and even "Star Trek" so memorable. As long as it isn't seen as preachy or advocating a certain point of view, it should work out nicely. Sci-Fi should make one think and even ask questions about their own lives. Getting people to converse about the show or a controversial subject is usually a Sci-Fi trademark since it is happening somewhere else in another time and place far, far away.

At least half the cast has been focused on and their characters developed in season 1. Expect to see the other half get the same treatment in season 2.

Reaching or finding "Earth" would be the final episodes of the series, unless there is a spinoff series to explore what happens after contact. How would the Colonials know if they found the real Earth? Or is it just a 13th Tribe settlement? If one was to look at out own local star map just 12.5 light years away from Earth:
http://anzwers.org/free/universe/12lys.html

Look how many star systems the Colonials may have to explore before finding Earth. They could be zig-zagging for years and even then may miss Earth. Using the "Arrow of Apollo" to open the "Tomb/Temple of Athena" (they still have to find the Tomb too) may only give a general direction the 13th tribe took, not the actual coordinates. If they know or find the actual coordinates in the tomb, then that would *suggest* that the Colonials may have originally migrated from Earth. Then one could say the Earth the Colonials find *may* be far advanced or at least equals in technology. It would depend on if the 13th tribe kept records and continued to develop technologically or possibly abandoned technology and is in a more primative state of development. Most fans want to see an Earth society that is space faring and deep space explorers, has settled on other planets, and advanced rather than the BSG1980 version or a replay of "The Day the Earth Stood Still", "War of the Worlds", or "Independence Day". Then you could have that one climatic battle to finally end the Cylon threat or start the "Circle of Life" again with just a few survivors left from the carnage. Then again the 13th tribe may have developed their own version of Cylons and Earth or the planet they settled on is just a dead world now with no survivors from either side or the 13th tribe may have packed up and moved on.

Lots of possibilities for story arcs. Plenty of directions or misdirections the writers can explore. Let's wait and see what happens and hopefully BSG is allowed to tell its full story this time around or at least run for 5-7 years or more.

[Lexx]

In my mind, the Colonials will never find Earth. They'll find traces of the 13th Tribe but never Earth itself. So eventually, they settle on a planet and name it Earth after the planet they could never find, and it turns out that our Earth is the one the Colonials colonized.

[Dahak]

While that is possible and anyone known as Dahak has no right to say this but here goes.
It's too complicated.

[Mr. Seven]

I think that if they find Earth it will be very futuristic.

The architecture (From what we know) of Kobol resembles Ancient Greek and Roman buildings. At least that one Coliseum/Opera House thing did.

[Unas]

Here's a possibility: They find earth but learn it is not the 13th tribe but their true ancestral home. Humans left earth and settled on Kolbol before moving on. Our heroes find a prerecorded message, a time capsule, and a clock that tells them it is the year 6000 or something.

This will explain the similarities between us and BSG. If the BSG crew arrived on earth in the present, wouldnt it be awkward that everyone spoke english and dressed in suits and ties?

[Unas]

You make a few stops but somebody, a guest star(s), is introduced and tells their story along with the main cast.

That was true for the original series but would be difficult in the new one. In this show, there are no aliens and all humans encountered would be suspected of being Cylons.

[mahram]

that would be great idea. Or how about them finding an advanced ship in space. Its wierd looking, looks really really old. The bsg guys steal some tech and info from it. Then on the closing scene, they find wierd markings. Like USS entrepid. Or Earth Craft voyager, that would be sweet.

Here's a possibility: They find earth but learn it is not the 13th tribe but their true ancestral home. Humans left earth and settled on Kolbol before moving on. Our heroes find a prerecorded message, a time capsule, and a clock that tells them it is the year 6000 or something.

This will explain the similarities between us and BSG. If the BSG crew arrived on earth in the present, wouldnt it be awkward that everyone spoke english and dressed in suits and ties?

[Darth Buddha]

The anticipation and the mystery are better than any "reality" that the writers could bring to screen. Galactica 1980 was a disappointment to most. Having BSG reach an earth that was like the Star Trek's Federation would satisfy some, and annoy others. Having BSG reach a primitive earth and be the progenitors of all advanced civilization on earth would please a few and piss off more. Even reaching a post apocalyptic earth where there ARE no more humans (or perhaps all of what we now know as humanity are really Cylons?) would suck for some.

As such, having BSG EVER EVER EVER reach earth would be bad storytelling. Great fanwank, bad storytelling.

[Ses]

I'd really prefer they didn't find Earth... they did that with the original and it turned out to be rather lame in my opinion.

Besides... its the journey and not the destination that matters

[Taonas]

I'd really prefer they didn't find Earth... they did that with the original and it turned out to be rather lame in my opinion.

Besides... its the journey and not the destination that matters

I agree fullheartedly with that (however I would like something implied... IMPLIED, not actually ever shown).

[mahram]

no offence to the writers to the writers of bsg 1980 they went nuts and change the whole premise. That was dealing with the cylon threat. They would veer off into storylines that dealt nothing with the cylons. It was basically a bad version dukes of hazzard, if the dukes were aliens. I think the premise of earth 2100's would be fantastic end. An earth where humans finally get there act together. It would be sweet if they did that. IF they do it right. It would really suck if they did a bsg 2005 type thing. But the possibilties of bsg 2100's where you have a massive massive cylon fleet coming to earth. And you have the humans all paronoid of the battlestar people, b/c there aliens. That would nice. I think during the 3rd or 4th season we will see earth or finality to the situation. Remember bsg is a very expensive show, so during the 3rd or 4th we will get an earth answer

I'd really prefer they didn't find Earth... they did that with the original and it turned out to be rather lame in my opinion.

Besides... its the journey and not the destination that matters

[Unas]

Besides... its the journey and not the destination that matters

Tell that to the Quantum Leap fans.