As every good boy and girl knows, BSG returns tonight. I, for one, can't wait.
I think I've figured out how the whole thing ends: In Episode 4.20, with about 20 minutes to go, the Cylons and humans come together on Earth, resolving to start over and make a new go as a new unified race, before the treachery of Baltar and a couple of renegade meat-toaster models results in the near destruction of the remainder of human and robot society. How is not important. There is a final shot of one of the human/Cylon Hybrid toaster children, aged into mid-childhood, painting cave drawings of the twelve colonies and the Galactica's flight from annihilation. Everything goes dark.
Then, the words 'sometime in the future' appear across the bottom of the screen. We see a non-descript class m planet from space. A ship with more in common than not with the Galactica we've come to know and love from the current series, but with some differences, appears in view orbiting the planet. The camera slowly approaches this vessel, revealing the word 'Galactica' emblazoned on the side. The camera turns into the launch bay, and enters the ship, winding through seemingly familiar corridors, coming to rest on the bridge. None of the current cast are present, the uniforms are different, etc. Clearly, this is not the Galactica of Edward James Olmos' Bill 'Husker' Adama.
A figure in the center of all this, who we can tell from his uniform, bearing, etc., is in command, picks up a buzzing handheld comm unit, and identifies himself as 'Commander Adama.' We then see who is on the other end of the call, and it is a civilian in some office of authority announcing Cylon attacks on the twelve colonies. 'Adama' announces this to his crew in a suitably stirring speech, and everything goes to slow-mo as the camera pans around the bridge, as words appear along the bottom of the screen announcing the names, rank, and /or functions of various personnel, names which are familiar to the BSG faithful: Gaeta, Dualla, etc, but not those we've come to know and love.
The camera winds back through the ship, revealing fighters preparing to launch, and identifying other major players, again played by different actors: Apollo, Starbuck, etc. The shot then jumbs out of slow-mo and into real time as All Along The Watchtower plays as we see various fighters and support craft take wing. Mushroom clouds appear around the planet in the background. Cut to 'Caprica (current).'
An improbably handsome man stands in a field, holding a bookish yet beautiful woman in his arms. We have never seen either of these characters before. We see smoke and devastation in the far background. The woman has a deranged look in her eyes, and is raving about what she has done, which she does not identify. The man pulls her deeper into her arms, and whispers words of comfort, identifying her as 'Gaea.' As the camera pulls into a close-up of the man's face, we see a red gleam in his left eye. 'This has all happened before, and it will happen again.' Fade to black.
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