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the next season could be based around an idea that I think they should have been exploring for the past two seasons, IE the question of what does it mean to be a human versus what it means to be a cylon.
Um, DUDE, the whole SERIES is about exploring the difference between human and cylon. Or are you watching some other show?
I really liked it. I had spoiled myself totally, but was still biting my nails. It's great that there are more cylons we didn't know about; it's great that Starbuck is back (whatever she is, who cares at this point); it's great that base stars are pursuing the fleet once again.
But the revelation that Tigh, Anders, Tyrol, Tori and possibly Starbuck are all Cylons also sheds some light on the (murky) historical backstory. If Tigh is a Cylon, and always has been, that means humanoid cylon models have been around for a lot longer than anyone thinks, right? (I'm working on the theory that since Tigh has been around in Adama's life since they were both young, a human Tigh wasn't replaced with a Cylon model that looked exactly like him. And so for the others.)
Possibly, the existence of humanoid Cylons actually predates the first human-Cylon war. So who made them? I have a theory: I think humans made the Final Five, which were the first five models, in some top-secret experiment. The first five models maybe escaped or were let loose, secretly, and that's why the first war happened. ("They rebelled." Tell me the centurions rebelled and organised themselves.) Then they retired and made the next seven models. Meanwhile they implanted single copies of themselves in the human population, starting with Tigh. Or maybe the first five were simply implanted in the population by someone (who?). The next seven models were like the next generation; they didn't care about the humans and wanted revenge. Maybe they had a dispute with the first five (if the first five were around) or maybe they simply knew that five prior models existed, but not what they were.
But here's the thing: if the first five models grew from children rather than having their bodies constructed as adults, doesn't that mean they're somehow closer to being 'human', on a biological basis, at the level of the cells, than the seven? Maybe they're a little like Hera, hybrids. This explains those crazy references to the Final Five being the doorway between life (bios) and death (machine); the place between the light and the darkness.
And I think the writers know what they're doing. If this pays off as I think it might, I can forgive them for the crappy showing of recent weeks. |
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