Nine ways they could have improved... Battlestar Galactica (2004)
— Change the backstory just a bit so that the thirteenth colony is not actually identified as Earth, and only described in such terms that make it a reasonable assumption that it might be earth.
— Keep out most of the mystical/supernatural stuff in general. Never make it clear whether we're dealing with hallucinations, divine visions, or (in some cases) the effect of ancient tech that cannot be distinguished from magic.
— Beyond those general changes, basically scrap everything after S03E10 ("The Passage"), because that's when the truly jumbled shit started taking over the entire series.
— A lot of the non-supernatural stuff from season 3.5 and season 4 can stay in, but let's not have Apollo change his career to 'lawyer' all of a sudden. All the supernatural mumbo-jumbo has to go.
— The "final five" Cylon models shouldn't be people on the Colonial fleet, but should appear as another faction of Cylons who have different goals to the ones we've met before. Presumably, these goals involve making peace and/or uniting with humanity. If the monotheistic cult still shows up, it should be (or evolve towards becoming) the human representation of this same desire for unity.
— If you want to make things really weird, have this new faction of Cylons believe that the story about the thirteenth colony of Kobol isn't a half-mythical history, but a prophecy... and that the unity of the Colonial fleet and the pro-peace Cylons is destined to found this colony.
— Eventually, the more insane, pro-genocide Cylons are defeated, and although the remaining humans and Cylons remain wary of each other, they do figure out the location of the supposed thirteenth colony, and (after concluding a permanent truce between them, pending further peace negotiations) make a jump to that location.
— The final shots of the series have the combined fleet arriving, and in the distance we see a little speck of a planet. It might be Earth, but it's deliberately too far away to be entirely sure. We're never told for certain, and if it is Earth, we're also not told whether they arrive in the distant past (meaning they are the true settlers of this thirteenth colony, and the ancestors of humanity) or in the present or future (which would imply that the settlement of the thirteenth colony was a historical event after all, that humanity originated from this, and will now meet these... distant relatives).
— There will at no point be any weird in-universe references to "All Along The Watchtower".
— Keep out most of the mystical/supernatural stuff in general. Never make it clear whether we're dealing with hallucinations, divine visions, or (in some cases) the effect of ancient tech that cannot be distinguished from magic.
— Beyond those general changes, basically scrap everything after S03E10 ("The Passage"), because that's when the truly jumbled shit started taking over the entire series.
— A lot of the non-supernatural stuff from season 3.5 and season 4 can stay in, but let's not have Apollo change his career to 'lawyer' all of a sudden. All the supernatural mumbo-jumbo has to go.
— The "final five" Cylon models shouldn't be people on the Colonial fleet, but should appear as another faction of Cylons who have different goals to the ones we've met before. Presumably, these goals involve making peace and/or uniting with humanity. If the monotheistic cult still shows up, it should be (or evolve towards becoming) the human representation of this same desire for unity.
— If you want to make things really weird, have this new faction of Cylons believe that the story about the thirteenth colony of Kobol isn't a half-mythical history, but a prophecy... and that the unity of the Colonial fleet and the pro-peace Cylons is destined to found this colony.
— Eventually, the more insane, pro-genocide Cylons are defeated, and although the remaining humans and Cylons remain wary of each other, they do figure out the location of the supposed thirteenth colony, and (after concluding a permanent truce between them, pending further peace negotiations) make a jump to that location.
— The final shots of the series have the combined fleet arriving, and in the distance we see a little speck of a planet. It might be Earth, but it's deliberately too far away to be entirely sure. We're never told for certain, and if it is Earth, we're also not told whether they arrive in the distant past (meaning they are the true settlers of this thirteenth colony, and the ancestors of humanity) or in the present or future (which would imply that the settlement of the thirteenth colony was a historical event after all, that humanity originated from this, and will now meet these... distant relatives).
— There will at no point be any weird in-universe references to "All Along The Watchtower".
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