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[morwen]

Ok, so I mostly liked it. There were certain moments of squee.

But... but... but...

What about the constellations in "Home, Part II", eh?

There wasn't even an attempt at a handwave for this, that I could see.

At least they could have got Number 3 back to say "Well, whenever you notice something like that, a deity did it?"

Comments

[abigailb.livejournal.com]

Ok, try this:

If we treat this as a dramatisation of a translated historical record, then the language that the Colonials speak isn't English, it is only represented by English. The Twelve Constellations were not identified precisely in the original source material by descriptions of the layout of the stars, or identified by recognisable names, and the translation was erroneous in assigning them in identity with modern-day constellations, because the translator had made the same mistake as we had in assuming that the events therein described were roughly contemporaneous and that their Earth is our Earth. The events of later seasons were adapted from records discovered and translated after this, there was no opportunity for them to go back and adjust the material for this error in translation.

[auntysarah.livejournal.com]

That works.

[st-lemur.livejournal.com]

Last bit to clear up, how come the continents on cylon-Earth are also the continents on our Earth?

(Also, who nuked cylon-Earth?)

[abigailb.livejournal.com]

We never saw the continents on cylon-Earth in "Revelations" or "Sometimes a Great Notion", I believe; the zoomout and zoomin at the end of "Crossroads" was a feint.

[troo.livejournal.com]

What about the greek myths so heavily used in the BSG world?

[abigailb.livejournal.com]

"translations" of the original names of the Colonial polytheistic religion, based on a similar misidentification of that faith with Greek paganism. I mean, it's not like they ever recounted any stories, did they? At most we got identification of god-name with role, so we can assume the translator took "arrow of X" where X was an archery-related god, and stuck Apollo in for X.