did the final season finally start? when this friday?? On 4/5/08, Jim Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you've not seen last season's finale then this is going to be a big > spoiler! > > > > > Got it? Big one! > > > > > Okay... so like all the cool kids I was waiting for the premier. But have > they screwed the pooch with the cliffhanger? I'm just not getting the > timeline here... > > Here's what I think we know: > > +) The "human" cyclons are synthetic - they're grown, as adults, in tanks > and can't breed. They all come out exactly as they are. > > +) The cyclons evolved the human cyclons sometime AFTER the first cyclone > war (sometime in the past 40 years). > > +) As far as we can tell (so far at least) they don't age. We've never > seen > an "old" Six or Sharon. At the very least, since they "born" fully grown > they can't be any younger than that. > > Now, forgetting and forgiving HOW they originally GOT to the colonies I > never had a problem with Six or Sharon. Six, especially, had no lengthy > back story - she was a hottie that showed up. Sharon did need to be there > for a while - even if we assume that she was planted into the military > directly she was clearly a member of the Galactica crew for some time - > maybe two or three years. > > Fine. All this needed was that the human cyclons were at least > three-to-five years old and had some way of getting agents into human > society and faking records. Easy. > > But now the new four screw that all up. We don't know anything much about > Tori...fine, she's no problem. But, starting with the easiest, Tyrol has > clearly been with the crew for some time - time and time again we get > inferences that he's been with Adama for a long while. > > But we also know that he fathered a child. Now we were under the > impression > that the cyclons couldn't breed themselves, but could with humans (as with > Sharon and Hilo). But if both male AND female cyclons are fertile with > humans... why not with each other? It just seems wrong but let's leave > it... we're still left with another half-cylon baby. > > But forget all that for a while. > > Moving on to Anders. He was a freakin' sports star on > Caprica! Apparently > a big one! Wouldn't we have to assume that his past was open to the > press? > That his childhood haunts were tracked down? At the very least wouldn't > we > have to assume some kind of career? Several years at least? How does > somebody like this just appear out of nowhere (presumably not long ago) > and > become a major public figure? > > But forget all of that as well. > > Tigh is the real puzzler - we KNOW that he was around BEFORE the end of > the > Cylon war. He served with Adama! Clearly he's aged appropriately > otherwise > somebody might have mentioned it. We know that he's been around for > decades! Even if we assume that the human-formed cyclons were developed > almost immediately after the war (or even before the ending) how do we > possibly explain Tigh? > > So if there really are a bunch of Tigh model cyclons out there... wouldn't > they have to be much younger? And if we see (as I bet we will) another > Tigh > at this age... what the hell? > > Finally if the cylons can recognize another Cylone either through the scan > across space (as we saw the Raider do in tonight's episode) or "feel" them > (like Six does) then why didn't anybody notice when they were ripping > Tigh's > eye from his head? Or when they were trying to kill Anders for so long on > Caprica? Or when Sharon is close to either Anders or Terol? > > I'm still kind of hoping (vainly) that we find out that the "new" Cyclons > aren't really cylons... but that's not going to happen. I'm really hoping > they explain all of this well... but I'm also worried that they went for > pure shock value despite the fact that it makes no freakin' sense at all. > > I LOVE this show... but this just isn't sitting well. It seems like they > just did whatever they hell they wanted and through history and continuity > out the window. I hope they didn't... but I also got the sense in > interviews that these guys are just a little full of themselves. Maybe > they've entered into the phase where nobody's telling them what sucks? > > Jim Davis > > >
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