That the events of BSG occurred more than 150,000 years ago? Looking back on the show, I don't think there were any clues or indication at all that this took place in our past.
shareNot one clue.
Seize the moment, 'cause tomorrow you might be dead.
Major spoiler in your first sentence.
But to answer the question- pretty much when you see the hominid tribe moving along.
"Major spoiler in your first sentence."
IMHO, if someone hasn't seen the entire series they shouldn't be reading threads on an IMDB message board. That's like wanting to avoid sharks but covering yourself in blood and swimming off the coast of Australia. ;-)
I agree.
Still, the spoiler feature is easy to use and literally takes about three seconds to employ.
Your thread title is one of those that sort of entice one to click on it because it is very leading without letting a reader know what it is about. Then with the first sentence, you already know a major detail.
Just saying.
That would be the reader's fault. This isn't facebook where a post can just pop up on someone's feed.
A person would have to actually search for a particular movie or show and click on their messageboard. They should know they run the risk of being spoiled. Especially on a show that's been cancelled for almost ten years.
Seize the moment, 'cause tomorrow you might be dead.
i've seen threads from people asking if it's 'worth watching'. maybe they do value a worthless internet opinion?
"He's dusted, busted and disgusted, but he's ok"
True. But that's not the same as clicking on a thread.
shareI'm on the fence about when wether people who havent seen it should be here at all,
But if it was me i sure wouldnt open a thread titled "When did you first suspect" !
Gotta agree with that. I think with any show that has been over for more than 5 years, we need to accept that any discussion will contain myriad spoilers.
shareCool. I see your point. :-)
shareI, myself, don't even watch trailers. If I'm at the cinema, I will go to the extent sometimes of closing my eyes if a trailer for something I want to see comes on.
In BSG, I don't even like those little bits int he intro sequence where they show you what's coming in the episode. Don't want to know!
But even so, I will still go to IMDb sometimes and visit a board of a film or series I'm considering watching. I won't read the threads but will scan the titles and try to get a general feel for the quality of the work based on that. I will sometimes open a thread if it seems safe to do so.
There are a lot of reasons someone might visit a board at IMDb and I just think as a fan of fiction and film, I don't want to be the one to spoil someone's experience if I can help it. It doesn't hurt me in any way to warn people that my thread will spoil their experience.
I would feel like sh-t if I spoiled BSG for someone (and I have done so in the past) and do try to avoid it and I don't really pass the blame on to them if I didn't put either a 'Spoilers!' alert or use the IMDb spoiler function.
If they look after that- it's their problem. If I didn't warn them- it's mine.
IMHO, if someone hasn't seen the entire series they shouldn't be reading threads on an IMDB message board.
Edit: by the way, it's not too late to edit your spoiler post and wrap the spoiler in a spoiler tag.
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I didn't. It wasn't till the very end when they were watching the natives walking along in Africa did we work it out. There is no clues at all in the show. I thought it made a nice twist in the end.
shareSame as everyone else in this thread. When they showed us the tribe. Blew my mind.
shareI expected it to be our prehistory, but not -that- far back. Maybe five or ten thousand years, maybe tie it into the Atlantis saga.
That was pretty much the original plan and one of the reason for all the Greek and Roman gods the Colonials had.
But then they decided that Hera should be "Mitochondrial Eve", and that was that...
A long long time ago in a galaxy far away...
Yes, exactly. Any time you're dealing with a vaguely established human society in a scif fi setting, it can go either way, forward or back. Often times a long running scifi novel series will retcon itself and tie itself back to Earth just cause the author thinks its cute or is out of ideas.
shareI never suspected it, but I had hoped that their ending at Earth might have been contemporary with our time, or perhaps in the near future. When it ended up being the way it was I was so moved.
shareI think the moment the text on the screen said "150,000 years ago"... but the moment I saw it I was like, ahh yes, that actually does explain a lot.
Adama = Adam
Hera = Mitochondrial Eve
Little things like that.
That said, I'd love to see a new series that explores what happens to those who remained in hiding on the 12 colonies--lets face it, there is no way the Cylon's killed everyone, Kobol (I have no doubt some people snuck a shuttle down to the planet and stayed there to make a life for themself), New Caprica (so many were left behind after the fleet took off), the Algae Planet, 13th Tribe Earth, and finally where the freed Centurions went after leaving Earth's space.
There is huge potential for this universe created by the reimagined Battlestar Galactica series.
150,000 years pass, with the Cylons having abandoned the 12 colonies long ago (during the series), a new human population would be thriving there, and the radiation would have been a thing of the past. Those who found enough anti-Radiation meds, and stayed in the mountains, would have outlasted the radiation.
I would love to know the history of Kobol.
shareI agree fully. It is almost impossible that no humans survived in the 12 Colonies and, especially New Caprica, which wasn’t nuked.
I doubt those humans abandoned technology like the ones in Earth 2 did.
So, they could be really advanced now.
I would also add that it would be interesting to see what happened to the centurions that were released. How did they evolved during the 150,000 year period?
So many stories!