You bring up a good point about Roslyn and it does illuminate one other concern I have about this series – for 2 seasons, we were reminded at the beginning of each episode that the Cylons “have a plan”. And then New Caprica happened and suddenly, it felt like the Cylons weren’t the only ones running around without any plan. Moore and Eick have created numerous threads about things that need to occur before the final outcome can be reached. And as of “Revelations”, most if not all of those haven’t. So, hopefully, they haven’t forgotten what was established previously in their series, though the fact that Tigh and Tyrol were able to impregnate women in the fleet – one a Cylon and the other a human – is not very reassuring.

Also, I’m with you on not wanting there to be some sort of religious message at the end of this series, simply because that would be incredibly cheesy for them to use a deus ex machina in a series peppered with characters using Greek mythology names. And for the record, I’m a religious man so this isn’t a jab at religion. Rather, this has to do more with the fact that BSG is not the place for sermons and pulpits. I also hope that they don’t fulfill that other hypothesis going around the net – that the Colonial Fleet become the founders of Atlantis. Ugh. BSG and its audience deserve far better than that.

But I’m going to stay optimistic about this and believe that Moore and Eick have found their plan again – buried under all those accolades and awards – and are putting it to good use to complete this wonderful series they created 4 years ago.

I like your analysis and I feel pretty confident that since Laura Roslin is still alive it DEFINITELY ain’t Earth folks. The prophesy makes it very clear she will not live to see it so that is that.

As far as the writing by Moore and Eick goes – I just keep reminding myself that BSG is the most original and thoroughly enjoyable TV show I may have ever watched. But it does fall flat sometimes. I do hope that they find a great ending but that is about the most difficult thing to do for a series and if it is even mediocre it won’t change my high opinion of their craft.

Finally, as a scientist and a sci-fi fan, I hope that the Cylon God and all the super-natural stuff turns out to be an exquisitely executed plan by the final Cylon. I just don’t want a religious message at the end of the series!

However, I must admit that I can’t use the ’78 series as a source for comfort that it can’t be Earth and the reason for that is simple – how can this series really be noteworthy or entertaining if they’re simply going to follow down the same path as a single-season show did 30 years ago? That would be like taking a Sherlock Holmes mystery and simply updating it so that instead of being two middle-aged, white men in London, we’d have two ‘cyberpunk chicks’ patrolling the seedier side of a contemporary city. Sure, the appearance of the locale and characters are different from the original, but the mystery of who perpetuated the crime would still be the same. Battlestar Galactica didn’t earn the accolade of being called ‘the best sci-fi series – ever’ by playing the game in such a predictable and safe manner.

No, I think the answer here lies not in what was done in ’78, but hopefully instead in what was done in 2003 and again in 2005-2006 by Moore and Eick when BSG really was the ‘best sci-fi series’ until then to grace the small screen. And in that case, I’d have to agree with you that this shouldn’t be Earth.