|  Murdocc | Mar 26, 2007 2:28pm | This is just something I wrote down on the SCI-FI forums about my theory on the story. It's more wishful thinking than anything. Anyone else got theories?
Humanity started on Earth. Perhaps some sort of autonomous seed ship capable of seeding a planet with Earth life, including human beings, settled Kobol. Maybe the gods that humanity lived with on Kobol were machines or some such things designed to care take the human race in the absence of actual human beings. Without a traditional society and culture to teach and guide them other wise, the early humans on Kobol came to view their caretakers as gods. Or what if humanity entered a dark age on Kobol? Maybe the caretakers failed at their jobs and humanities baser instincts brought down their fragile society. Then they were forced to begin anew without the knowledge of their former home. Some of the knowledge must have survived though. Pieces of their history became the stuff of myth and spawned the basis of their religion. Other knowledge must have survived too. There are a lot of similarities between colonial and Earth militaries, which could be attributed to less than perfect writing but could also be attributed to rediscovered knowledge. Even though they warred and killed, humanity flourished, much as it has on Earth. Eventually they became a space faring people and ventured out into the stars. They settled the colonies and eventually abandoned Kobol. The location of it was lost, maybe a dark age was entered again or maybe an authoritarian government took control of the colonies and forcefully erased parts of their history. Whatever the reason, the knowledge was lost again. Eventually the colonies arrive at their pre-extermination peak, they create the Cylons, they war, they make peace and then they're wiped out and the story begins.
As for the current and final story arc, I don't think humanity ever completely left Earth, but the people there now are no longer people. Thousands of years doesn't grant enough time for natural evolution into something else, but through technology, who knows. My personal little hunch is that these angels, prophesies, visions, gods, all the convenient plot elements that can only be explained through divine intervention could all be attributed to a super advanced Earth born human race orchestrating the return of their children, and their children's children to they're true home. Maybe the colonies aren't the only children of men as well, who knows where else humanity spread to from Earth. I think that would make for an interesting couple of last episodes. |
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