Comments on: Battlestar Galactica: Earth, And Why You Shouldn’t Believe The Rumor

By: Damon

Damon — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:22:34 +0000

Just watched the great Season 4 finale.

Looks like you were wrong, Phil.

By: Laurence

Laurence — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 22:18:07 +0000

I really enjoyed the ending, but the nerd side of me was screaming at the television. It makes no sense that there’s a ‘clone’ Earth that happens to be habitable. With the same moon, constellations, New York as the first Earth they discovered.

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:54:53 +0000

LOL…funny that the rumor was right….AND that the grand finale turned out to solidify the show into a monotheistic barrel of Creationist Gagh.

I’m surprised Phil liked this show so much…sure it had supsense and effects, but the overbearing infusion of religiosity as inspiration into the drive of the characters and survivors was not only annoying but depressing as well.

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Sat, 21 Mar 2009 03:11:43 +0000

[...] And I saw you’d written about how [there couldn’t be a second Earth], and that they wouldn’t do that to us would they? Yeah, well we did! In fact we had discussed it before season [...]

By: Yeah bye you fail

Yeah bye you fail — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 02:31:57 +0000

Ha you are wrong. Final episode just aired. The rumor was correct. The burned out planet was not our Earth.

By: Jake

Jake — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 02:19:20 +0000

@ joey

calm down. this is just a tv show. no need to yell.

By: joey

joey — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 11:14:30 +0000

VERY SHODDY REPORTING IT MIGHT JUST BE A TV SHOW BUT COMEON DO YOUR RESEARCH.

there WAS NO MOON AT ALL NOR DEFINABLE CONTINENTS VISIBLE….

AND YOU STATE THAT THERE WAS… IS THIS SITE A BLOG? AMATEUR NIGHT AT THE APOLLO :p

By: Peter

Peter — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 17:25:48 +0000

Too bad this topic died… There still isn’t an answer and we’re 2 episodes down the road again

I have 1 more argument why it’s not the real earth.

If the earth they mean in the series is “our” earth (as it was in the originals) then it should have been impossible for them to dig up a centurions head.

By: Tony

Tony — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:31:28 +0000

Some of these theories are beginning to sound a little like Asimov’s Robot and Foundation series.

By: robbie

robbie — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 19:56:27 +0000

Sorry wrote too fast! What I’m getting at is if you have hyper drive, you must ahve the capabilities to keep history on a floppy somewhere

By: robbie

robbie — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 19:54:51 +0000

I also did not see anything when the ships were approaching, it was a blue planet, but sans and identifiable continents.

The round robin bit I find hard to believe, if this has happened before…how the hell would the story get buried? Sizzled cities are not torn down and rebuilt and then….forgotten.

I find it very hard to believe that Kobol and Earth have layer upon layer of destroyed cities on them, and nobody noticed?

If you can cross interstellar space, you can keep a god damned word processing file of why you went in the first place

By: cityofdomes

cityofdomes — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 08:39:28 +0000

Sorry I don’t have time to read all preceding posts so if the following is already mentioned, my apologies. Remembering the original series as a kid, the original rag-tag fleet first came across Terra which was about to experience global war. Perhaps our Galactica in the new incarnation has found Terra, albeit too late to stop the war. Don’t remember if the original series mentioned the planet ‘Terra’ in their ancient texts as a split-off from the 13th colony ships on their way to Earth. Perhaps by the end of new season 4 when completed, they may not even reach Earth but merely leave off as the original series did (putting aside Galactica 1980) where they encounter static transmissions of Earth/Moon space shots, ‘Eagle has Landed’ etc – maybe bringing it up to date showing a space shuttle or something – and the crew of the Galactica (as in the original plot) assuming the signals could be ancient (which they could be for all we know). Putting aside all this, you would think that with the technology and resources that they have, despite the Cylon decimation, would be enough for them to seek an area on the ruined ‘earth’ that is less affected, to rejuvenate it, maybe even finding some folks hiding underground in bunkers who could reveal that their world is known as ‘Terra’. Hmmm…

By: atari age

atari age — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:01:06 +0000

Wow. I’m surprised that I’m so riled up by this, but most of what you write is way far off. Whatever the real story is, little of what you say makes much sense. Isn’t this a science magazine website? Aren’t you supposed to make accurate observations?

I mean, the Earth I/II spoiler that Aaron Douglas spilled (it’s not someone’s made up theory – unless Aaron made it up) may or may not be true.

But as for your “proof”…

a) End of Season 3 planet is obviously OUR Earth – you can see Florida . There is no other interpretation that’s clear. The end of mid-season 4 planet is near-completely cloud covered. Did you see any obvious landmass outlines that looked obviously like Earth? If you did, you’re the only one.

b) You (nor I) certainly don’t know a thing about this prior civilization and it’s technological capabilities. It’s SciFi, after all and you don’t have the show notes. And you obviously think terraforming is not a possibility for some reason, since you point to two *naturally occurring* habitable worlds as your example of how crappy all other habitable worlds – terraformed or not – are. Terraforming would be EXACLY the reason a good habitable world could be worked up nearby by an advanced civilization

c) You say, “The Earth seen at the end of season four has a moon that looks just like ours, certainly in terms of size.” No it doesn’t – there’s a sun, no surprise. But no moon. End of Season *three* planet had a big moon, briefly glimpsed, but that’s because that planet is most likely Earth.

Then you say, “The moon is even pointed out by characters, so it?s not depicted by accident.” No it most certainly is not pointed out by anyone. What version of “Revelations” did you watch? Kara mentions it back in the beginning of season 4, but that was her memory of “Earth” and there’s no indication in “Revelations” about it being THIS planet.

d) That’s the only one that has some basic validity. GalacticaSitrep posted a terrific comparison shot. One could argue that BSG took an existing skyline and basically melted it to make a convincing generic ruins (ie, it’s another planet). Or it could really be the Brooklyn bridge.

Really, was there any point to this post? Just say that either Aaron’s spilling the beans could be accurate or it’s a ploy to throw people off the track.

But totally saying the opposite of actual factual observations to prove some point… well, why would anyone do that?

By: radii

radii — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 07:57:43 +0000

To sate your appetite these many long months until BSG returns:

http://www.battlestarvariant1.blogspot.com

By: m2iCodeJockey

m2iCodeJockey — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 04:25:46 +0000

@WindsorShadow
There is a BSG promo picture refered to as “The Last Supper.” The picture has several hidden messages as well as a clue to the Last Cylon, who may be missing from the photo.

The 3’s hand and the opening between Tigh and Lee suggest to me:
-The Last Cylon is in the fleet, has been to but may not be on Galactica.

Making a list of character that have been able to work with Cylon Tech:
-Dee had access to the bridge, the origin of the Pilot Ep’s beacon was never explained and this character is a fit for the pictures opening having 3 touching her temple.
-Bulldog was able to fly a Raider, fit in the photo 3’s had would be on his shoulder.

The Last Supper photo also contained “666″ in several different patterns suggesting if all the faces were together, a cataclism would occur.
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About Destroyed Earth: Did you guys consider that somethings in both “The Plan” and “The Scrolls” have not been properly processed. To start, “The Temple of 5″ sticks in my mind as never having had a group of 5 people (or Cylons) stand on the symbols together.