I still prefer to believe that it was time travel.
1. The Temple of Apollo showed constellations that are only visible from our earth. That meant either the burned out "earth" they found the first time a) wasn't actually earth but a cylon colony because they missed the target, or b) was our earth but in their time.
2. Lends a lot of credence to the whole "this has happened before" thing.
3. They jumped next to a black hole. Some scientific theories think that black holes and wormholes are the key to time travel.
If the goal was to stop the cycle, then having Cavil make a pact and stick with it would have stopped the violence and nobody would have needed to jump the ship back to earth.
But, I like the bleakness of that thought too. They can't break the cycle because it has all happened before. They all have prescribe roles that they must play, and Hera "Is the mother of us all".
We never did find out where the settlers of Kobol came from, maybe they came from earth initially? It was heavily mentioned that the odds of finding a compatible species are astronomical. Maybe they weren't another species of human, but the ancestors of the same humans.
Or, I could think happy thoughts and go with the whole "God had a plan and the cycle might be broken and look at what a nice promised land God has found for us".
The way they wrote the show really leaves a lot up to interpretation, and really makes you think about all of the events of the show. Even if it's only in effort to try to make the darn thing make sense!
1. The Temple of Apollo showed constellations that are only visible from our earth. That meant either the burned out "earth" they found the first time a) wasn't actually earth but a cylon colony because they missed the target, or b) was our earth but in their time.
2. Lends a lot of credence to the whole "this has happened before" thing.
3. They jumped next to a black hole. Some scientific theories think that black holes and wormholes are the key to time travel.
If the goal was to stop the cycle, then having Cavil make a pact and stick with it would have stopped the violence and nobody would have needed to jump the ship back to earth.
But, I like the bleakness of that thought too. They can't break the cycle because it has all happened before. They all have prescribe roles that they must play, and Hera "Is the mother of us all".
We never did find out where the settlers of Kobol came from, maybe they came from earth initially? It was heavily mentioned that the odds of finding a compatible species are astronomical. Maybe they weren't another species of human, but the ancestors of the same humans.
Or, I could think happy thoughts and go with the whole "God had a plan and the cycle might be broken and look at what a nice promised land God has found for us".
The way they wrote the show really leaves a lot up to interpretation, and really makes you think about all of the events of the show. Even if it's only in effort to try to make the darn thing make sense!
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