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   From: buffhunter@my-deja.com   
      
   In article <5a28628a-c36b-4bc0-a76b-   
   8e0225c715eb@m21g2000vbr.googlegroups.com>, tarrow@yahoo.com says...   
   > At what point in BSG did they decide how they were going to finish   
   > it?  Clearly at the beginning there was not even the faintest idea   
   > about what they were going to do, which resulted in the multiple   
   > discrepancies, especially with Cylon rebirths.   
   ---   
   I think they had the basic plot worked out long before they started   
   shooting the pilot. That is RDM had an overall plan for the series.   
   That is that the Cylons will attack, then some numbers of good Cylons   
   would cooperate and reconcile with humans and eventually get to New   
   Earth and live out the rest of their lives together in unity on the   
   New Earth of 150,000 years ago after the defeat of the evil Cylons   
   all according to a plan by unnamed higher forces (represented by   
   Virtual Six and Virtual Baltar), but he didn't work out all of the   
   details. And he has told us he didn't because he wanted to keep the   
   series fresh and responsive, but overall they did have the overall   
   structure worked out. And I don't see any real discrepancies with the   
   Cylon rebirths. It was explained in "No Exit" about how the eight   
   Cylons we first knew about were created; how the final five were   
   created and where they and their people came from (Kobol). The only   
   thing that remained murky was how the original Kobol Cylons that   
   settled and left Kobol came from but that is okay, most of the big   
   questions were answered. The only real one that wasn't was who were   
   Virtual Six and Virtual Baltar. Gods? Angels? The remains of the   
   Lords of Kobol?   
      
      
   >   
   > Personally I think they only worked out how it would end after the   
   > penultimate series.  I don't think they would have planned for Kara   
   > Thrace to come back as a lunatic who occasionally lucked out and found   
   > Earths.   
   >   
   >   
   > Mike Hall   
   ----   
   Kara wasn't a lunatic, she was following a prophecy. The fact that   
   she came back with a bran spanking new Viper when she was supposed to   
   be dead and given the coordinates of New Earth by Hera the half human   
   child then when her mission was done up and disappeared practically   
   in front of Apollo proves that. Now for a while she didn't understand   
   what was going on having all those images in her head and it drove   
   her nuts but she wasn't a lunatic that lucked out. Remember her   
   painting matching the gas giant and the rebel Cylon ships? None of it   
   was "luck".   
      
   Incidentally in another incident of real life following science   
   fiction, which is why I love sci-fi so much-you have heard how we in   
   real life created artificial life. That is how the humanoid Cylon got   
   started. I remember the early debates here way back in early 2005   
   that said that the humanoid Cylons HAD to be clones, that is   
   originally made from human cells that is there had to be a real life   
   human Sharon Valerii a real life human Six etc. to have existed (they   
   are obviously clones of *each* other, within a model line). That it   
   was impossible to happen any other way (somehow forgetting this is a   
   science fiction show and they could've originated in a scientific but   
   fictional way). Well, they started from scratch (albeit they did use   
   some human test subjects as we saw in "Razor") just like in real life   
   LOL!   
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    a fellow that's in the right and keeps on acomin'."   
      
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