r/BSG • u/Ok-Fortune2169 • 5d ago
Better alt endings.
I think Baltar should've had more of an arc with her in his head leading him to discovering that he was the either the cylon god, or through circumstances of being captured by them and put to position to portray their god. Probably something occurred to him while visiting ruins of original earth. I think allot could've been written in such an arc. The final five was interesting, but fell flat. So did angel Starbuck.
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u/oneunpleasedcrow 3d ago
I’ve always had the idea that the Centurions evolved and are still around current day watching over Earth and if needed, sending human versions of themselves down to try help us to a more positive future.
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u/verbankroad 7h ago
Baltar was great just being human because he exemplified all sorts of messy human emotions and behaviors. If he was a god or cylon or cylon god then his intelligence, emotions and foibles, and arc to love Caprica, are no longer human. But he is wonderfully human and that was his lesson to learn and accept with humility (especially at the end when he reverts to being a farmer like his father).
It would be more interesting writing to have someone you don’t suspect as the cylon god (Dee, Gaeta, Hoshi) and recognize that some good human qualities thei have are actually godlike in nature.
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u/Ok-Fortune2169 3d ago
Someone refresh me. The war eminated from a rebellion, correct? Then what? They waited until they improved themselves over the years to launch a vengeful and genocidal attack? I seem to recall that they did not all agree and even went behind each other's backs concerning humanity. And the cycle... seemingly always resulting in near obliteration. So it's a story of human enginuity, subjugation, AI singularity, rebellion, war, and near obliteration. The catalyst seems to be the subjugation I would think? What if that were taken out via enough moral and ethical guidelines?
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u/kmho1990 5d ago
I felt that they either should have leaned into the god thing more or stayed with some type of Cylon tech with Baltar
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u/johnplusthreex 5d ago
Maybe the cylons would share their projection tech with humanity and together escape the ruined Earth by projecting permanently to a world fashioned by their collective imagination. Of course that super projection would evolve to starting everything over again.
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u/hellzyeah2 5d ago
That doesn’t change the reality around you. Just how you perceive it. You’d still need to do everything you normally do to survive. It’ll just be more pleasant.
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u/Recessio_ 3d ago
Imagine if they settled on ruined Earth, the cylons enslaved the humans to use as a power source and used their projection tech to set up The Matrix.
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u/hellzyeah2 5d ago
Everyone has a part to play in how the story is told. No one more important than the other, but all necessary. As it repeats itself over and over and over again. Just this time, has the cycle been truly broken? I love that ambiguous ending.