It would rather seem that they left Earth and then somehow created the 12 colonies. So we will find out that they are somehow descended from Earth.

Roslin’s here to stay by the looks of it.

any thoughts?

and btw, how can Kara Thrace not be the harbinger of death now? she’s led the entire fleet to a radioactive rock! pretty much speaks for itself!
ok, maybe not.

So then all humans have latent cylon genealogy, and are something like 1/128 cylon? Or rather, humans and cylons are really the same race, just two separate levels of evolution? I guess that makes sense; it fits with the whole “this has all happened before, and it will all happen again” deal. And there do seem to be minor hints of cylon psychology throughout the series (baltar’s pseudo-sexual repartee with head-six, Adama’s pow-wows with his dead wife, Lampkin’s chit-chats with his dead cat, etc.) I don’t like the idea of being a cylon half-sy descendant caught in some genocidal game of intergalactic ping-pong, our ancestors and descendants traveling back and forth between Caprica and Earth without really learning the value of life; but then, there were a lot of things that I didn’t like at first and later grew to praise about this series (Toricide was one shocking, if delicious, way to go…)

As far as where all this will ultimately pan out, Moore & Eick seem pretty adamant in interviews that they’re not going to do a conclusion that wraps up every single little strand in a nice neat package with a bow on top, but rather deliver a conclusion that is satisfying, but leaves just enough unresolved to keep people debating and wondering. I just hope they provide a satisfying, logical, definitive enough explanation for at least some of the nagging questions still lingering about (like what is the deal with Baltar in general? I mean, seriously – what the frak?

There are a few things that I foresee happening that I’m rather excited about:

The apocalyptic civil war that will rage (hopefully) across the human/cylon alliance that will set up a “sins of the father/mother”-esque recurring history pattern of doom for the humans and cylons to play out down through eternity, and single act of redemption (human cylon hybrid children?) that offers up some small sliver of hope for their descendants, and

Tori’s inevitable come-uppins at the hands of a homocidal Tyrol, and the awkwardness of Tyrol asking Boomer-Sharon out on a cylon rebound date, especially considering that all the women in his life have died due to jealousy-inspired, cylon love?)

I’m just worried Moore/Eick will leave just a little too much unresolved and chock it up to creative license; Moore was, after all, praising the Sopranos creators for having the balls to end the Sopranos series the way they did; I just hope that means that the BSG creators are considering having the stones to kill off their world, and all of its main characters, with a bang, and not a whimper.