The Minority Report

Friday night, 2-hour series finale of Battlestar Galactica, the best damned TV show on TV today and possibly ever. If you didn’t watch it because it was “science fiction” I would seriously urge you to get over that part and concentrate on it being so well written, so rollcoaster, so in touch with humanity and social issues of all types.

Buy the DVD’s and watch the show it’s awesome.

Spoiler Alert:
These are not actual spoilers but anyone that has watched the show will definitely find themselves agreeing with these possible conclusions. So proceed at your own risk.

One of the best things about the final season of BSG has been that much of the annoying mysticism of previous seasons has now been explained by science. I’ll admit it was convoluted TV show science, but at least it wasn’t people seeing ghosts or having divine inspirations.
Battlestar Galactica – 5 Skeptical Solutions for the Finale | Science Not Fiction | Discover Magazine

With all that in mind here are non-supernatural solutions for my five favorite Battlestar mysteries (note that these are suggestions not spoilers):

1) The Opera House – Roslin and Baltar are both part Cylon. If everything happening now has happened before, then it makes sense that human-Cylon hybrids happened before. Roslin and Baltar can project because they are descendants of the ancient human-Cylon combo.

2) Kara Thrace – An old school Cylon who resurrected after arriving on the irradiated Cylon “Earth.” She’s the “harbinger of Death” because her return means the end of resurrection and the return of natural reproduction for the Cylons.

3) Earth – Earth as we know it exists apart from the nuked Cylon Earth that the refugees landed on, thereby giving the refugees a final destination.

4) The Defeat of Cavil & Co. – One last rousing space battle for the old man and crew, with an assist from Sam Anders as the hybrid controller of Galactica. It’s going to be awesome.

5) All Along the Watchtower – Bob Dylan is the creator of the ancestral cylons.
Battlestar Galactica – 5 Skeptical Solutions for the Finale | Science Not Fiction | Discover Magazine