> And why does the nuked Earth and the new Earth in the ending have the same continents?

It doesn't. This was a nod to the original series, which teased the audience with the claim of finding Earth. It showed the continents, but it turned out the planet was Terra.

What Moore did was show the planet, but the next time you see the fleet in orbit all of the continents are obscured by cloud. It was Terra they came to.

Ron Moore sucks...how do two different planets look the exact same and have the exact same constellations? While one is lush with agriculture and the other is a ruined wasteland? How 1 has the Brooklyn bridge and the other has the Brooklyn bridge 150,000 years later? WHO THE FUCK KNOWS FUCK THIS ENDING....FRAAAK

>>3091276

Wut

faggsttsts

>>3091276
africa in new earth. florida in teh old earth
a;sldfkj;gt;tj/??????????????

Another theory is that they were the same planet. Remember that scene where Adama was going over a map of Earth showing where humans could colonize in the brightly colored zones? I took it that those areas with inhabitable while the rest were irradiated.

Could be wrong of course, I just don't remember where they established that the previous planet was not Earth, unless if the planet Kara jumped to at the very end was the REAL Earth all along.

>>3091317
It was very clearly a different planet from some dialogue and the way the characters were acting.

>>3091294
http://en.battlestarwiki.org/wiki/Terra

>>3091332
>>3091332

Right, but they landed in a different area (Africa) than they did previously. Seemed like the first time around, it was in what was left of NYC with the Brooklyn Bridge and what not.

>>3091276
No that was Earth. The planet they found wasn't called Earth until Adama decided that would be its name. So pretty much they named our planet. It was a nod to Terra though.

>>3091291
They weren't an exact match, only from what Gaeta saw. Planet was blocking off the other half of the sky.

>>3091291
Same way how a lot of other things they had before they reached Earth was there. e.g Reader's Digest, All Along the Watchtower. Etc.

You people are retarded. They were clearly two different planets, Moore just trolled you by saying it was Earth the first time and then having them land on a different planet.

>>3091357
Right, that was the real Earth, in BSG continuity. Adama named the new planet Earth, which is our earth. AND LOL EVERYONE WHO SAID IT TOOK PLACE IN THE DISTANT PAST WAS RIGHT.

>>3091433

Gotcha, makes sense. Ron Moore is the greatest IRL troll ever.

>>3091443
It was a nod to Terra from the original BSG... so really the original writers were the best IRL trolls ever, since they did the same thing.

>>3091452

The word "Earth" comes from the Gothic word 'airtha' which is about 1000 years old.

I'm still trying to understand how the 12 colonies are named after star formations that could only really be seen from our earth

I was rather disappointed that the ending kind of boiled down to LOL MAGIC GAWD DID IT.
Though I do wonder what Head Baltar meant when he said "You know he doesn't like to be called that."

>>3091452
Mormons are trolls anyways.

>>3091482
Because the names of constellations were passed on from the Terra colony, their shape didn't match actual star patterns anymore. Just like naming places in North America after places in Europe.

>>3091482
Old Earth was close enough to New Earth that the stellar geography would've remained relatively unchanged. Remember Adama said they were only going to search within a certain radius.

>>3091509
Starbocks jumped them a million light years from the black hole.

>>3091482
Earth -> Kobol -> Earth & The 12 Colonies -> BSG -> Our Earth

>>3091517
Uhm... what? Go away, moron.

>>3091525
No, Kobol -> Earth & 12 Colonies -> BSG -> New Earth

>>3091501
>>3091509
Second guy would have to be correct because not only did the names of the constellations get carried over but it was stated (on Kobol I believe) that the original flags of the 12 Colonies had the constellations on them

>>3091482
or...the constellations are named after the 12 colonies.

MIND FUCKING BLOWN

I hate that fucking idea. If we keep hitting the reset button we'll never get to Star Trek!

>>3091535
Rewatch the episode you mouthbreather. Adama outright says "1,000,000 light years".

>>3091525
No: Earth -> Kobol -> Terra & the Colonies -> New Caprica -> Earth again

Humans evolving independently on two worlds a million light years apart? Science doesn't work that way. For there to be humans on Earth, they would have to be from the same origin as the Colonial humans.