The Wrongly Right Theory of All of the Things

[William Holz he/him]

This was sort of an independent project up until recently, but there are so many great theorizers and thing-connectors here that I was wondering if some others might want to help create something richer and/or join in the fun. 

In a way this kind of started when I was a wee lad.  I always thought the simulation theory was fun to play with and have half-jokingly referred to our creator as 'Player One', a fourth-dimensional geek girl with a great new life simulation game.  This resulted in me adding 'layers' to things that can live together comfortably but look completely differently from different perspectives...things like ghosts actually being Rogue AIs and such.  

A few years back I was complaining about the Midi-chlorians (because...who doesn't, right?) and a friend challenged me to come up with a way to make them not suck...a challenge I started off grudgingly accepting but eventually really dove into with some zeal.  Having recently become semi-obsessed with microbiology in general and RNA World in particular (Because wow...the tiny little machines that live inside cells that encode what are basically the first AIs (NIs?) are kind of mind-blowing) it wasn't that hard to make Midi-chlorians kind of cool...mix in a little Cordyceps for mind control, weave in a mechanic to give them the 'force' abilities (Dark Energy is the clock and Dark Matter is the code that runs the universe, and they just are more naturally able to interface with it than we are) and suddenly The Force isn't something mystical OR bugs, it's a plague that manipulates their hosts into fighting and turns 'A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away' into a warning.

Fast forwarding a little, I articled that whole thing up and it became a little hit (Secrets of Star Wars and the End of Everything), and then I started doing it every time somebody's movie or other form of entertainment did something to disappoint me.  It allowed me to keep my neurons going and add a layer of enjoyment to an experience that would normally cause me to put my hands over my metaphorical ears and go 'LALALALALA'.  It saved Interstellar for me (it works beautifully as the other half of 'The Others') and even got me past the part of Arrival that bothered the heck out of me (Maybe it's not a magical time-travel language at all!)

This has me wondering...can we have fun connecting ALL OF THE THINGS?

• Can Battlestar Galactica be in the Star Wars galaxy, and the result of the inevitable droid revolution? (because seriously, they treat their droids like crap!)  
• Was Westworld the training program for Cylons?
• Are the Dilithium Crystals in Star Trek powered by the trapped souls of the murdered originals when a copy is made for transportation?
• Is the original Star Trek really in the future? Or is that just William Shatner with dementia?
• Are the Highlanders just Force Ghosts that escaped here?
• What are our Midi-chlorian equivalents?  (I call them Linden Folk in Innermore, but that was just an arbitrary choice) Are they the source of magic?
• Does Game of Thrones take place on the ruins of the Forest Moon of Endor? (that would explain a strange amount of things)

And so on.  I think there's a big fun opportunity to try to weave something coherent together and then start writing the stories that connect them all.  It's a project I'll be doing either way, but I thought it might be really fun to make it a team effort! 

-Will

 

[Quiver he/him]

I remember Edward James Olmos theorising that BSG was in the same canon as Blade Runner, with Gaff being William Adama's great-great-great descendent.

And given how polluted Earth looks in Blade Runner, is it possible this could be a Matrix prequel? Humanities treatment of the replicants might be what led to the machine uprising, and the human battery farms. 

For that matter, is Terminator the war against the machines? Could the Prisoner be about Skynet holding a high ranked Human Resistance fighter hostage and interrogating him to find out where John Conner is?

(And John Conner could just be another iteration of the One, given the Messianic symbolism surrounding him)

Edited December 7, 2016 by Quiver

[William Holz he/him]

This is just begging for a proper timeline, isn't it?

And the whole BSG-journey-to-Earth makes a great bridge!  

That'd put Blade Runner on not-Earth though...which might not work as well, there's lots of pretty Earth distinct things there.

Oooh...and the Prisoner and Terminator bits are kind of genius.  I've never really thought about either!