BSG new cylons
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UPDATED: Sunday, April 20, 2008 22:57
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Originally posted by ecgordon:
I think the final Cylon will be someone who we have seen in the past but who died, either Admiral Cain, Billy Keikaya or Ellen Tigh. If it is someone still living then my most likely suspect is Tom Zarek.
I'm sticking by my prediction back from season two that Billy is a Cylon. Why? Because when they found the tomb of Athena and the roadmap to Earth there were five people there. The four main characters: Apollo, Starbuck, Adama, and Roslin and then...Billy. Guess who died about an episode later. Billy. Why? Because it was more useful for him to go tell the Cylons about the map to Earth so they could keep following the humans than it was for him to stay by the president.
Billy is number five.
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Quote:Really? Oh, you're so right! Thanks for the correction - I never could watch much of the old BSG. I have tried! It's just too cheesy for my (sort of) young eyes.
Originally posted by chrisisall:
Actually, he used to be Apollo, but the point stands.
BSCMan - Excellent deductions! Makes my science lobe pulsate happily LOL! My niggle is the same as yours: I doubt the show writers planned the 24 seconds to be scientifically precise. Probably had more to do with timing the dialogue and fitting the attention span of the viewers...
But here's a bigger niggle - I assume you're picturing Baltar waking up in a goo bath surrounded by the 7 bad cylons, since they "implant" the #6 hallucination in his head. But don't they not know who the 5 are? Why would they work so hard to manipulate him if they knew he was a programmable cylon?
And why leave the newly minted Baltar in a field? There wasn't much chance that he'd get on the transport. That was very lucky, that Helo recognized him and gave up the spot. It was lucky that Helo and Sharon were there at all! That couldn't have been planned by the cylons.
Which leads to what I see as possible weaknesses in BSG - I think the writers might go where they want without answering these kinds of questions. Like Chrisisall, I worry that the many dangling threads they've left over all the seasons have no tie-ups planned. That would ruin many things for me, no doubt. (Kind of like the end of the Dark Tower books...)
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Originally posted by chrisisall:Quote:Actually, he used to be Apollo, but the point stands.
Originally posted by mal4prez:
I like the suggestion that it's Tom Zarek. That could be fun - just because the actor used to be Starbuck. It'd be like a second level of irony...
It'd be pretty funny if Dirk Benedict came out of nowhere as cylon number 12, too. I know the writer's talked about using him in the past but didn't know how.
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After watching today's episode, I am convinced: The final Cylon is Starbuck. No, wait, it's Admiral Adama. No, it's Starbuck.
No, I'm sure this time, it's the Admiral.
And Dirk Benedict would never come to this show, he hates it.
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Wow. Didn't see that comin'.
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I can put up with ghosts, goblins, were-rabbits, reavers and all things that go bump in the night....
But people with graphs and charts scare me...
And where are your sources for this information?
Anyone can post a graph showing what they want. I'm not certain but I think I've read that some of the later season episodes ranked higher then the first season.
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There is someone else that I haven't thought about for a while, and when I originally speculated about him being a Cylon I don't think there was anyone who agreed with me.
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The air-locking of Cally last night reminded me of it.
I believe it was in Season 3, Episode 2, "Precipice," when Duck suicide-bombed the NCP graduation ceremony. Jammer was standing directly behind him in the reception line, so there is very little chance he would have survived. And yet he is still around after that, and is the one who cuts Cally's bonds and tells her to run at the end of "Exodus, Part 1." Then he is the first one air-locked by the tribunal in "Collaborators."
He would certainly fit if RDM can be believed that the final one will not be one of the major characters under speculation.
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Originally posted by ecgordon:
I think the final Cylon will be someone who we have seen in the past but who died, either Admiral Cain, Billy Keikaya or Ellen Tigh. If it is someone still living then my most likely suspect is Tom Zarek.
Me, I'm hoping for ole Badger to make a return
The Alliance said they were gonna waltz through Serenity Valley. And we choked 'em with those words. We've done the impossible, and that makes us mighty.
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