Woah this is awesome. Instant subscription. Great format. Time to watch BSG again.
How come the planets are named after astrology signs?
Also are the humans orginally from earth? Why does the cycle repeat?
Ive never seen the show, can someone answer these questions?
[QUOTE=Firetornado;53110886]How come the planets are named after astrology signs?
Also are the humans orginally from earth? Why does the cycle repeat?
Ive never seen the show, can someone answer these questions?[/QUOTE]
Mega spoilers
[sp]Its more like the astrology signs are named after the planets. At the end of the show they find Earth thousands of years ago and settle it which is actually just a random planet (our planet) and not the missing 13th colony which was a nuclear wasteland when they found it
The cycle is just humans playing god and creating AI, which in turn creates humans so they can be alive and feel and the they destroy each other and repeat (its pretty silly). [/sp]
[QUOTE=Firetornado;53110886]How come the planets are named after astrology signs?
Also are the humans orginally from earth? Why does the cycle repeat?
Ive never seen the show, can someone answer these questions?[/QUOTE]
Drama.
(no, literally)
Also:
1. Because the colony names and make up in the original series were a weird combination of judiac and greek mythology (with roman names). In the BGOS, the humans were looking for the fabled "lost colony"/homeworld of the 13 "tribes" and turned out to be Space Mormons. They rebooted the series with the finding of Earth and trying to fight the Cylons with Mormon values. (You think I'm kidding and I'm not.)
2. Yes.
3. Because Space Mormonism.
(The news series tries to set up that the cycle repeats because humans aren't evolved enough to go past their base natures so any AI they create will have the same problems in logic and philosophy, but given how bad ratings were for the last season, they may have simply went with the premise because SyFy didn't give them the financial means to do anything else:
At the start of second season they were on track to have a five season arc with spin off movies and a shared televised universe, by the mid point of the fourth season they were considering ending the show without even finishing the season ratings had fallen so hard, and the prequel series never got out of the friday Death Slot it was relegated to because SyFY didn't think long form TV was anything truck drivers or pizza cooks would watch, and yes, SyFy's target audience at the time was truck drivers and pizza cooks)
Man, new BSG's overarching plot and universe had so much potential and the ending was just kinda lackluster imo.
Why mormonism lol
Because Glenn A Larson was a Mormon, most likely.
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