Talk:Survivor count/Archive 1

Discussion page of Survivor count/Archive 1

No whiteboard information given in the following episodes:

  • Bastille Day
  • Act of Contrition - 13 pilot deaths
  • Litmus - 3 crew deaths and one copy of Doral
  • Six Degrees of Separation - Shelly Godfrey "disappears"
  • Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down - Baltar gives a verbal count, but the whiteboard is displaying something entirely weird.
  • The Hand of God

I will be unable to update this page for the information in Home until a few days after it airs. Please be patient; I will attend to it as soon as possible. --Peter Farago 02:00, 19 Aug 2005 (EDT)

Timeline Fuzziness

As you may have noticed, the timeline is getting fuzzy. I believe it is possible to establish a reasonable sequence of events through the episode "Flight of the Phoenix", but later events will be difficult to pin down until the airing of "Epiphanies". --Peter Farago 00:45, 27 September 2005 (EDT)

Graph Update

Peter, which software did you use to create this graph? Perhaps I can update it to reflect Pegasus. --Watcher 19:10, 19 October 2005 (EDT)

The problem is with the dates, which have gotten very fuzzy since the start of the second season. See Talk:Timeline (RDM) if you'd like to help me sort things out. --Peter Farago 23:33, 19 October 2005 (EDT)
Uh oh. Sounds like deciphering M Theory. OK. What the heck. I'm with ya. --Watcher 02:03, 20 October 2005 (EDT)
I believe that we can now make a credible guess for the start dates of "Resistance", "The Farm", and "Flight of the Phoenix". "Home, Part I", "Home, Part II", "Final Cut" are not yet dated, and I am leaving them marked as such. Since I understand that including data from "Pegasus" is very desirable here, I'm making a completely unfounded guess that its events take place on Day 105, and updating the graph accordingly. --Peter Farago 20:19, 13 November 2005 (EST)


The entry for Home (2) should list the deaths of two Laura Roslin redshirts (not one), since the overall population is reduced by three, but only Elosha and one redshirt is listed, unless there's another factor I'm forgetting. Ltcrashdown December 23, 2005

We didn't see it happen, so that's not a reasonable assumption. Maybe somebody on the Rising Star hit their head on a bulkhead during the episode. --Peter Farago 19:06, 24 December 2005 (EST)


I agree. I don't remember anyone else dying either, but the body count got reduced. I just figure with one dead Roslin redshirt listed, that it might make sense to make it two, just so it would match up with the three death population decrease. Ltcrashdown

The sketchy numbers in the early few episodes can be accounted for in a few ways. First off, people could have been injured or heavily irradiated in the holocaust and eventually died a few days later. Secondly, people could have been injured/killer during the events of "33". Ron Moore mentions a deleted take where Edward James Olmos improvises a line about "10 suicides", for instance. Thirdly, people could have been counted twice, or not counted at all. If you remember the first couple days after 9/11, it was originally thought that around 6,000 people had died, until the estimates were revised down to 3,000. Given that the only source for the survivor count in the first season is Laura's whiteboard, some inaccuracies are to be expected. Philwelch 19:33, 31 January 2006 (EST)