It aired Friday night. Probably available at scifi.com by now. On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 12:20 PM, Bill Wheatley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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 > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:258106 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
