Recent events have led many to lose faith in religion, specifically the scrolls of pythia. however i dont believe that rdm would simply throw them out as fiction. we’ve heard of many of the things the pythia predicted …“the dying leader shall guide the caravan of the heavens to the promised land… blah blah” the question is, what does pythia write about the end? how does the journey end? i still believe there is some truth to what pythia wrote, and i wish it was addressed in the show.
In a big fireball…
Fade to black. Roll credits. DUH! 
With Dee shooting herself.
What? There’s more?
I was wondering a bit about this myself. I just don’t see such an important component of the series being written out with Roslin burning the book with 8 more episodes to go. Pythia is a lie, burn the book, thats it?
With us on the floor in the fetal position crying.
I have wondered if, at some point, we would get a “new” interpretation of the Pythian scrolls. If they were written in a dead language (which may or may not be the case) it is possible that someone will discover that there was a mistake in the original translation regarding something really important.
Reporting from the Erf camp:
On our Earth.
If I understand correctly, it doesn’t exactly end; it all happens again, as it did before.
Point!
dxf: 1 All: 0
Dee shot herself. I declare victory and go home.
In the words of Lord Tennyson:
Not with a bang, but with a whimper.
Baltart is composing the next “Book of Pythia” with these sermons of his. The Cycle is continuing and it is not good.
Interesting idea, but I think that’s too easy. It’s a bit of a cop out too, I think, to suddenly say, “Hey wait! Remember that thing we were saying the whole time? Well, it’s wrong. Here’s the right answer, sorry.”
Regardless of what the writers have said (because I know they’ve commented that it’ll “end with a period, not a comma or an ellipsis”), I can speculate and say how I’d like to see it end (and I have) but I really hope that in some way it ends as we’ve been told it will: finding not just a home but Earth, our Earth. That’s always been the intent. It’s a rollercoaster; the ride is the exciting thing, the important part. You know it’ll end and where, but getting there is a blast.
It seems the whold damn thing is circling the drain. I’d bet that so few humans and cylons are left that human/cylon history will be re-written through Gaius’ little cult. The book of Gaius is the next book of Pythia. I do think that a “Cycle” is longer than 2000 years. How long ago was it that everyone ditched Kobol for Erff and the 12 colonies? I thought it was something like 3,500 years, but I can’t remember.
2,000 - when the 12 tribes left. Same time frame as when Cylon Earth was nuked. Hmmm.
At this point, I’m guessing just a handful of Cylon[z] and humans.
12 Cylon+12 Humans+1 Hera, followed by what dxf said.
Faith isn’t based on fact, it’s trust. I think we will come back to the written words again. But I’m not sure the answer is going to please everyone.
I can’t remember completely, but has the Scrolls of Pythia actually ever stated that they will find ‘Earth’? It’s said they will find the ‘Promised Land’ and the Colonials have a mythology based around a missing 13th tribe on Earth, but could it just be that they’ve mistakenly conflated the two? I suspect the Scrolls will turn out to be true and they find a Promised Land (just not Earth), and just as they do one of their leaders die (more than likely Adama).
But then this theory is all shot to hell if they actually have a reading from Pythia directly referring to ‘Earth’…