Finally got to see ALL of the Battlestar Galactica finale.  My DVR cut off before the final 9 minutes of the overlong Daybreak Part Two unwound.  Thank the Lords of Cobol for Hulu.com.

So, now I’m left with a disturbing theory (beyond the idea that there’s a race of Centurions, somewhere out there, that have had another 150,000 years to evolve…).

It goes something like this:

The reimagined Battlestar Galactica with James Edward Olmos as Adama unwinds 150,000 years in the past.  At the series end we flash forward to the here and now.  The finale hints at the cyclical nature of events and how our present-day patterns are mirroring the events that led to the rebellion of the machine servitors and the fall of the 12 colonies.  We close on a collage of robots that are developing toward bipedal and human-like designs…

If one follows the established time-lines for the BSG mythology…

Eddy-J commanded the original Galactica 150,000 years ago. 

Loren Green commanded another battlestar named Galactica some 150 millennia later at the end of a thousand-year war against a machine race believed to have been created by extinct reptilian aliens. 

Thus the original BSG is the future series and the “reimagined” BSG is the “first” series.

My…head…hurts!

WMS