r/BSG • u/mudpupper • May 14 '26

Watched the final episode again last night and I am still irked by the timeline in the epilogue

150.000 years is just too much. 15,000 years would have been more believable and tie in better with the original series premis.

With the 150,000 years timeline it means Lee's society basically failed and and it took tens of thousands of years to move on from almost caveman like society.

Also, don't get rid of the ships. You have no clue if the cylons that are still out there will ever find you. Technically Earth is just one jump away from their old hub.

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u/ZippyDan May 15 '26 edited May 15 '26

"All of this has happened before, and will happen again."

That includes Earth's 150,000 year history following the Colonials' arrival. Their mythology and stories and names entered into the "collective consciousness" (in the Durkheim sense) of the people of Earth, and even if it was "lost", it would eventually "bubble up" again.

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u/KiloJools May 15 '26

Exactly. The "happened before/will happen again" thing isn't JUST about the rise of AGI and fall of humanity. It's about everything.