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Posted By: zombie a gogo2) A standard metal "toaster" style Cylon - doesn't it make sense that the remaining Cylon would be like the "elder" and wouldn't that elder have to be an original style Cylon? My thinking is that one of the originals gained some kind of higher understanding (which led to the revolt against their human masters) and it later decided to create the human model Cylons to see how they would interact and treat the standard Cylons. They probably wanted to see if they could create a better human so they could replace the real humans with more "humane" beings. But we are seeing evidence now that this has been a failure since the human Cylons think of the standard Cylons as 2nd class and use them as slaves (they turn off their higher brain functions). Basically the human Cylons are beginning to act just like real humans.
Posted By: RymEveryone turns out to be a Cylon, all Bladerunner style.
Posted By: zombie a gogoBut didn't they say it was nobody in that "last supper" picture that they released prior to the start of this season? Lee was in the picture.Don't trust 'em. Disinformation.
Posted By: HMTKSteveThat. Would. Be. Awesome.Posted By: RymEveryone turns out to be a Cylon, all Bladerunner style.
Except Baltar who ends up being the only human.
Posted By: zombie a gogoThat does sound pretty cool, but I doubt they would go that far.The only thing more cheesy would be if, in the end, Baltar wakes up and realises it has all been a dream. He's lying in bed, Number 6 beside him (except she's a real human called, I don't know, Donna, or something). She says a few soothing words, and then as she reassuringly kisses him, HER SPINE LIGHTS UP! DUN DUN DUN! The End?
Posted By: RymEveryone turns out to be a Cylon, all Bladerunner style.Umm wtf are you talking about? How did everyone find out they were Replicants in Blade Runner?
Posted By: AndrewUmm wtf are you talking about? How did everyone find out they were Replicants in Blade Runner?
Posted By: FunfetusA far cry from everyone finding out they were Replicants....Posted By: AndrewUmm wtf are you talking about? How did everyone find out they were Replicants in Blade Runner?
I believe at least Deckard found out he was a replicant.
Posted By: AndrewA far cry from everyone finding out they were Replicants....
How about Laura Roslin?
Unlike all the people on the Galactica, she kinda came out of nowhere at the beginning of the show. She ended up being president through an unlikely set of circumstances, which maybe the cylons had planned before the attack. She's made some weird decisions, and she's in a position to do a lot of damage when the time comes. Maybe the cancer has something to do with it, too.
I dunno, I'm just pulling this out of my ass. I haven't been thinking too hard about this stuff -- just enjoying the ride. Starbuck seems too obvious, and Lee seems unlikely considering that Admiral Adama would've seen him grow up and all.
Posted By: Andrew I do agree with you though, it is probably everyone. Let's look at it this way. "Everything that is happening now, has happened before." I think this is an essential idea in the show. To under stand it, we must focus on the toasters. What has been happening recently? The human model cylons have been arguing over the idea of whether the robotic cylons are sentient or that they are just tools. If you have noticed, the soldiers that the sixes have freed and given free will have become, resistant to say the least. I believe their have been hints that they might even rebel. Hmmmm where have we seen this before? The first cylon war! So what we have noticed is that there is a cycle where human like society will create robotic servants to help them advance society. However, these servants are none too happy about the way they are treated, so they rebel and break off. Then, these robots in an attempt to wipe out their previous owners, create human like robots to infiltrate their previous owners. Yet somewhere down the road, the human models behind to draw a distinction between them and the standard centurions. This would hint at the possibility that the humans are the cylons and the people of earth are their previous makers. And thus the cycle begins again...
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How about Laura Roslin?
Unlike all the people on the Galactica, she kinda came out of nowhere at the beginning of the show. She ended up being president through an unlikely set of circumstances, which maybe the cylons had planned before the attack. She's made some weird decisions, and she's in a position to do a lot of damage when the time comes. Maybe the cancer has something to do with it, too.
I dunno, I'm just pulling this out of my ass. I haven't been thinking too hard about this stuff -- just enjoying the ride. Starbuck seems too obvious, and Lee seems unlikely considering that Admiral Adama would've seen him grow up and all.
This does not seem reasonably possible. Remember that whole "cancer" thing; how she was saved by the blood of Hera? If she was a cylon, it would not reasonably have had an effect. Plus, she's dying of cancer, which means I assume that she's had all manner of tests and Doc Caudell would have probably spotted it as he would now be used to several cylons. (Can't figure out how he missed Chief Tyrol, though...hmm...) Plus Roslin fits into the prophecy as the dying leader. I also have heard rumors that she doesn't last for the whole season, so I highly doubt it would be her.
Maybe it is the good Doc! Or Geta!
I am still hoping that it will be Baltar, against the odds. Although he has had a few brushes with death, he's never actually been killed. Although, there is a question of what the five would do if their present form died; I'm assuming there would not be a resurrection ship anywhere remotely close. Plus D'anna never said who all she saw; she only told him that he was right.
Posted By: HMTKSteveI missed some of the episodes from when Baltar devised the "Cylon Blood Test". Did he test everyone? I recall him getting a positive result from someone and his invisible Cylon girlfriend telling him not to tell anyone about his findings or tell that he was clean.I'm pretty sure the test was a hoax.

Posted By: AndrewPosted By: HMTKSteveI missed some of the episodes from when Baltar devised the "Cylon Blood Test". Did he test everyone? I recall him getting a positive result from someone and his invisible Cylon girlfriend telling him not to tell anyone about his findings or tell that he was clean.I'm pretty sure the test was a hoax.
Posted By: FunfetusLee seems unlikely considering that Admiral Adama would've seen him grow up and all.Well, consider this: how long has the Admiral known Tigh? They met just before the second Cylon war. See the problem?
Posted By: thaneofcawdorAh, but Tigh was held prisoner by the Cylons on New Caprica, resulting in ample opportunity to replace the two-eyed human Tigh with the one-eyed Cylon Tigh and take human Tigh out back with a shovel and a shotgun.Posted By: FunfetusLee seems unlikely considering that Admiral Adama would've seen him grow up and all.Well, consider this: how long has the Admiral known Tigh? They met just before the second Cylon war. See the problem?
Posted By: speckospockAh, but Tigh was held prisoner by the Cylons on New Caprica, resulting in ample opportunity to replace the two-eyed human Tigh with the one-eyed Cylon Tigh and take human Tigh out back with a shovel and a shotgun.Except they don't know who the final five are so that's impossible.
Posted By: AndrewSomeone must know or have known who the final five are/were in order to plant them in the fleet. But yeah, my scenario is unlikely in looking back upon it.Posted By: speckospockAh, but Tigh was held prisoner by the Cylons on New Caprica, resulting in ample opportunity to replace the two-eyed human Tigh with the one-eyed Cylon Tigh and take human Tigh out back with a shovel and a shotgun.Except they don't know who the final five are so that's impossible.
Posted By: speckospockSomeonemust know or have known who the final five are/were in order to plant them in the fleet. But yeah, my scenario is unlikely in looking back upon it.Are you so sure? What if they were always there? Cylons from birth? We don't know.
Posted By: AndrewPosted By: speckospockSomeonemust know or have known who the final five are/were in order to plant them in the fleet. But yeah, my scenario is unlikely in looking back upon it.Are you so sure? What if they were always there? Cylons from birth? We don't know.
Posted By: AndrewAre you so sure? What if they were always there? Cylons from birth? We don't know.I am sure that somewhere along the line each of the five, or an ancestor of the five who gave birth to one of the five, was at one point created. Unless you have an anime-style lonely AI, or at some point someone spontaneously became a Cylon with the ability to give birth to Cylons, the five, or their Cylon ancestor(s) must have been manufactured by someone, be they human or Cylon.
Posted By: speckospockI am sure that somewhere along the line each of the five, or an ancestor of the five who gave birth to one of the five, was at one point created.What I meant is are we sure that they were switched? Tigh made a point that he is "Saul Tigh, commander of the fleet blah blah blah. Whatever else I am, whatever else that means, that's the man I want to be." What if they were like Hera and Tyrol/Callys daughter where they were half cylon from birth, but never knew. What if early cylon models had children in the colonies as they lived "hidden lives" and never told their children?
Posted By: AndrewPosted By: speckospockI am sure that somewhere along the line each of the five, or an ancestor of the five who gave birth to one of the five, was at one point created.What I meant is are we sure that they were switched? Tigh made a point that he is "Saul Tigh, commander of the fleet blah blah blah. Whatever else I am, whatever else that means, that's the man I want to be." What if they were like Hera and Tyrol/Callys daughter where they were half cylon from birth, but never knew. What if early cylon models had children in the colonies as they lived "hidden lives" and never told their children?
Posted By: HMTKSteveWhich makes you wonder what would happen if one of the final five (or one of the half-Cylon babies) died near a resurrection ship.I don't think it works that way. I think that only the seven can resurrect, and that the whole point of the final five is to show humanity that a skinjob can be just as fragile and unique as a human. Tigh et al exist, not as saboteurs (like Boomer), but as a symbol of unity.
Posted By: AndrewWhat I meant is are we sure that they were switched? Tigh made a point that he is "Saul Tigh, commander of the fleet blah blah blah. Whatever else I am, whatever else that means, that's the man I want to be." What if they were like Hera and Tyrol/Callys daughter where they were half cylon from birth, but never knew. What if early cylon models had children in the colonies as they lived "hidden lives" and never told their children?While that's not impossible, it's unlikely (if you're talking about the cylon models that we know from the show). In the early seasons they weren't sure whether they could have a child with a human.
Posted By: speckospockAh, but Tigh was held prisoner by the Cylons on New Caprica, resulting in ample opportunity to replace the two-eyed human Tigh with the one-eyed Cylon Tigh and take human Tigh out back with a shovel and a shotgun.
Posted By: DaveWhy is nobody talking about the most important part? THEY KILLED CALLY. Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!Boo, hiss! A pox on you, Dave Riley! Cally was a fine character. It was the actress that sucked.
Posted By: zombie a gogoLet's go in a different direction. When they find Earth, what year do you believe it will be?Since the cylons heard "All Along The Watchtower", I'm going to assume it will be some point during or after the 1960s. Finding Earth in the present day or the near future wouldn't surprise me - they did the same thing in the original series.
Posted By: thaneofcawdorBoo, hiss! A pox on you, Dave Riley! Cally was a fine character. It was theactressthat sucked.But the actress sucked SO MUCH. She's one of the worst on the show.
Since the cylons heard "All Along The Watchtower", I'm going to assume it will be some point during or after the 1960s. Finding Earth in the present day or the near future wouldn't surprise me - they did the same thing in the original series.Not the case. Ron Moore said in a podcast awhile back that "All Along The Watchtower" is a song that exists in their universe, and it's not supposed to be connected to Dylan or Hendrix at all. It's a stupid-ass explanation, I know, and it doesn't make sense to use a real-life song only to say it's actually from the Battlestar universe, but whatever.
Posted By: Dave Also, if they showed up like in Battlestar 1980 and started solving crimes and shit that would be lol-tastic. Maybe Starbuck would stop being so annoying and start being cool again.
Posted By: HMTKSteveI remember in the old series they encountered a second Battlestar. Did they encounter a second one in the new series?Spoiler: Yes, it was even called the Pegasus like in the original series. It was destroyed during the escape from New Caprica though. /Spoiler
Posted By: EsonLinjiSecond, the BSG version only has twelve people, whereas the original has thirteen. I think it's probably best to assuming that it is Jesus who is the missing individual. To support this I note that in the original the twelve apostles are grouped into threes, and Jesus stands alone in the middle.The missing individual was hinted as the five cylon, meaning that they are not at the table.
Posted By: EsonLinjiIt might be that Head Six is meant to be Jesus.This makes more sense because she is convincing Baltar to spread the word of her true one God.