BSG - How Will It End?

[lostman]

While yesterday's show was disappointing, mostly just filler, Losthubby and I were discussing the last episode. Here are our thoughts:

There is life on earth underwater. How could Starbuck have resurrected on Earth without life being there already? Saul started receiving memories of his life on that planet when he went into the water. It is most likely high level Cylon life.

What do the rest of you frakkin' toasters think?

 

[LHB_SOB]

I think they're going to get Hera back, but Galactica and all hands will be lost in the process. Galactica, her crew and her purpose are a living reminder as to why humans and cylons cannot live in peace. For there to be a human/cylon (or all cylon?) existence, the Galactica and what she represents must disappear.

I anticipate it will be Hera helping Starbuck discover the "true" Earth and that the rebel Basestar and the remaining fleet will jump to a location to end the show.

 

[l00p]

I am glad that it is going to be a two hour special!

 

[pasotex]

badly

 

[FondrenRoad]

Everyone is a cylon. There has been an endless cycle of man creates robot, robot creates man, man creates robot.

 

[mia1994]

All of this has happened before and will happen again.

We know on Kobol there were 12 tribes of humans and 1 of cylons, who lived with the "Gods" (perhaps a reference to the survivors of the previous iteration). There is an overuse of technology which results in the pollution of "home world" and the "exodus/exile". One would presume that this story ends with a restoration, and a return to a minimalist society... not a "New Caprica" but instead a "new Kobol".

To this end, the aggressions of the past iteration must endt. Galactica and its warriors must die, just as much as Cavil and his warriors. Hera has been promised as a the future for Humans and Cylons. While this does feel somewhat as a copout (since she has been largely ignored for two seasons), she must escape the battle.

I suspect that Cara is the "death of humanity" because she was resurrected by the 5's machine. That resurrection technology works for humans & cylons might suggest that humans themselves are not purely biological but rather are the product of an earlier human/cylon hybridization. Cara ends the concept of "humanity", not the people themselves. Ultimately, when all is said and done, the delineation between man and machine is not only ambiguous philosophically (as has been hinted since season 2), but also as a point of fact. I admit, I'm spit balling here, but it would remain true to the themes we've seen.

 

[pasotex]

So where does Neo fit in all this?

 

[l00p]

Other than being the chosen one, I don't know.

 

[BattleshipTexas]

It ended well. Much better than some other series did (e.g. Sopranos).