Lebell

Probably enough people don't know the show that a general post isn't uncalled for.

The premise behind BSG has changed several times since it's conception in the late 70's.

At first, the Cylons were supposed to be a lizard type race that wore armor and the humans were battling them. Then the network wigs got cold feet showing so much killing (even killing lizards) on TV, so the Cylons were turned into a sentient machine race.

With the new BSG, this was given a further twist. Ala "Terminator", now it is a machine race that human beings originally created, but then one that got smart and started rebelling against their former masters. After a peace treaty and years of separation (the Cylons went on to found their own civilization elsewhere), they are back after developing a Cylon model that is almost indistinguishable from a human being.

The original series had a great opener where Adama (played by Lorne Greene) gave a brief narration that answers the questions about Earth and the time line.

In brief, the question of when and where are somewhat unanswered. When briefly revived BSG as Galactica 80 (in 1980, go figure), we found out that Earth had indeed been a separate colony founded far away from the other human worlds and that the events of BSG were contemporary in time.

But part of the fun of BSG was that we didn't know if the ancients that founded the civilizations of Atlantis, Egypt, and Peru were a separate colony or were founded by those fleeing from the Cylons. In otherwords, we didn't know the timeline or who came from whom.

I suspect that we will see that continue with this show. At the end of the miniseries when Adama announces that the highest ranking military officers know the location of earth and then when the new President of the colonies confronts him, he confesses that it is just a smokescreen to give the people hope.

This leaves the same sorts of possibilities and it would be great to investigate them. Do the fleeing humans find Earth? Or do they find an uninhabited planet that becomes Earth?

Eitherway, it will be fun

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"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." – C. S. Lewis

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