It wasn’t Jupiter!
I’m just listening through the podcast for “Islanded in a Stream of Stars” now, and Ron Moore just burst another bubble.
Remember this planet, seen briefly in the episode at the start of another scene chronicling Boomer‘s journey, with Hera Agathon, back to “the Colony?”
Yeah, that planet.
It’s not Jupiter. That’s from Moore, directly. Direct quote from the podcast:
That is not Jupiter, by the way. Th…there are people who have…who have said said that, uh, oh, that’s Jupiter in the background. It’s not. It’s just another gas giant with ring…with, uh, stripes and so on…
So despite the starry backdrop pointing us toward the conclusion that Earth — our Earth — is close by, more and more of the “other elements” in the show seem now to be pointing us away from that possibility.
Confusion and misdirection, unto the end. Not that we should have expected less from this production team. This podcast, in particular, seems to poke holes in a number of fan theories, more so than has been typical of the podcasts I’ve listened to up to this point.
Were some people getting a bit too close, I wonder?
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What is so important about gas giants, anyway? In addition to the obvious, Kara disappeared in the storm system of a gas giant, there the “Eye of Jupiter,” and now this un-named gas giant. What’s up with that?
I downloaded the podcast, but haven’t had time to listen to it yet. You should go over the Templeton’s site and clarify the Jupiter thing if someone hasn’t done it already.
This works with my alternate universe theory, since this planet is in the BSG universe not ours. It actually makes sense with the “it’s all like our universe, but not” idea because it looks a hella like Jupiter, but it isn’t Jupiter.
Or, I could just be making the facts fit my theory. Who knows?
Aren’t gas giants one of the most common planet types, at least as far as we’ve been able to discover at this time? Although, granted, a fair bit of significance does seem attached to such planets in the series.
Will do.
It does, at that.
Someone — Templeton, I think — made an argument which also supports the possibility of a “down the black hole”-type ending; he noted that one doesn’t introduce something as vast and drastic as a cosmological object that is, currently, only within the realm of “the hypothetical” unless one really intends to use it.
And unless one is going to use it for the purposes of wiping out “the Colony,” (which he also goes on to note is actually a very difficult proposition, given the physics of orbital bodies), one can really only use is as a gateway within the established conventions of the sci-fi genre.
I think the best explanation is that there are several theories which fit the facts we have at present, or that the facts we have at present fit several different theories. This is because, I think, we have very few actual facts to work with at present, thanks to the design of the writers.
We are in “see in a mirror dimly” territory here.
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