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The collective unconscious is not a hokey concept but the basis of Jungian psychology and mythological study. If you can come up with a better theory explaining the common motifs of myth and art, I would like to hear it.
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@Bill-Lee:
It is not so far fetched to say that human beings, having similar thought processes and psychology will wind up creating similar myths to appeal to their common spiritual needs. However, having something very specific like All Along the Watchtower or the names of the Greek gods being passed on by the Colonists to our world just strains credulity. Having Galactica arrive at Earth so far in the past just doesn't work. It would have been much better to have them arrive around 2000-3000 BC where they could have directly passed their myths on to mankind.
I would have loved to have seen a scene where Tigh, Helen and Tyrol head up to Northern Europe and work their way into the Norse mythos (Tight would be a great Odin), while the majority of the colonists would settle in Greece. At least that way it would seem like they left something behind. The way the BSG ended, it seems like they all went out into the woods and wound up dying in the wilderness like Christopher McCandless, making all their struggles for naught which was kind of sad. Reply
It is not so far fetched to say that human beings, having similar thought processes and psychology will wind up creating similar myths to appeal to their common spiritual needs. However, having something very specific like All Along the Watchtower or the names of the Greek gods being passed on by the Colonists to our world just strains credulity. Having Galactica arrive at Earth so far in the past just doesn't work. It would have been much better to have them arrive around 2000-3000 BC where they could have directly passed their myths on to mankind.
I would have loved to have seen a scene where Tigh, Helen and Tyrol head up to Northern Europe and work their way into the Norse mythos (Tight would be a great Odin), while the majority of the colonists would settle in Greece. At least that way it would seem like they left something behind. The way the BSG ended, it seems like they all went out into the woods and wound up dying in the wilderness like Christopher McCandless, making all their struggles for naught which was kind of sad. Reply
@Batmanuel: When BSG started, I actually thought that it would end with them arriving on our planet at about the time that agriculture was developed which would have been about 10'000 years ago. My thought at the time was that the Cylons would end up in the Levant to become the ancestors of the Israelites while the humans would end up in the Mediterranean to become the Greeks. However, I have no problem with them arriving 150'000 years ago except that I feel a scene was edited out where some of the Colonists have direct contact with the early homo sapiens. Also, I felt that whoever explained mitochondrial Eve to Ron Moore didn't make it clear enough.
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@Bill-Lee: All Along the Watchtower would have made a lot more sense if it was explained with something concrete, for instance, Cylon material passed into human DNA. But then, I was expecting the "god" of BSG to be a Kobolian super computer trying to force a new hybrid species to evolve, or something like that.
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