Anyone remember the old Battlestar Series? It basically sucked, the far superior new series has done well to incorporate almost every element nonetheless. It's now going into its fourth and final season (yes, SciFi has confirmed what Eddie Olmos had been saying for so long, despite the reluctance of David Eyck and Ron Moore to admit it's closing time). At this rate, they have a very good shot to end the story while it's still good. In short, I would like to see the one other major element of the original series introduced: those beings on the light ships. I'd like them to be the Earth humans. Here's how: 1.) Earth didn't come from Kobol--Kobol was a colony of Earth, founded by a separatist sect that revived the pantheism that eventually became the religion of the Twelve Colonies. 2.) It's about 10000 A.D. on Earth. Humans there are cyborgs built on biological frames, much as Cylon humanoids are cyborgs "the other way round." 3.) Kobol's society left Earth thinking it was decadent and doomed. Colonists left Kobol on the starship Galleon after Kobol fell apart. The Cylons left the Colonies thinking they were decadent and doomed. Now, the Cylon society is falling apart. 4.) The Cylon God guy keeps talking about "All this has happened before, and will happen again." He's merely repeating words Head Six has already said. 5.) The Cylons know more about the human religion than the colonists, according to Athena. Well, that's because they were making archaeological digs on Kobol for years before Galactica stubmled on it. And what they didn't find were biological ancestors of humans. Everything else fit, just not the humans. So, the Cylons have been in on this little secret that Earth is the homeworld of humanity for some time now. 6.) The Cylons are about to fall into a civil war with a machine uprising of their own (I think). 7.) When Galactica reaches Earth with a few surviving Cylon humanoids shortly behind them, the Earth humans can intercede and tell them that this cycle of uprising, flight, and resttling is in their nature. Echoing the words of Eddie Olmos in the miniseries (the ones that really define the series), "you cannot play God... sooner or later the day comes when you cannot hide from the things you've created." Well, the Earth humans can tell our characters that "you can't play God... you cannot hide from the things that created you."
I wasn't so satisified with Season 3. They showed a lot more of the Cylon culture, only to leave me really underwhelmed. I mean, this is such a religious society the Cylons have built up, and with all the crazy stuff we see 'em doing, they mostly just run around in designer outfits (?!), use their imaginations to surround themselves in idyllic settings, and keep Baltar locked up on an old French chaise lounge ??? In all of that, we saw not ONE Cylon religious service or religious reference other that people talking about "God wants this, God wants that." You don't have conversations about God's wants without a religious structure in place to define what God IS. So, where is it, oh great writers of BSG? But, I have high hopes for Season 4--the Razor production is looking REALLY good, and I dare say they have a chance of pulling this off realistically.
