OT: Season 3 BSG

[gregebowman]

Dizzy said:
The 5 other cyclon models are ::spoiler::

Bill
Laura
Kira
Lee
Gaius

Sick isnt it?

Actually, I still think Gaius is a special type of Cylon. Unfortunately for me, I haven't been able to watch the last few episodes, so I have no idea about these Hybrid peopole that you're "talking" about. Hope to fix this situation soon, as it's killing me not to be able to watch this show.

[Atrocities]

What are you basing these names on? I suspect its just irony.

[Randallw]

The cylon models aren't based on any specific "humans", correct.

We know from the fact that "Caprica" will be made focussing on the Adama family and young william will be in it, I think, so as the Cylons don't copy humans then Bill Adama, and by connection Apollo, can't be cylon agents.

Therea re hints about Baltar, but if he is a Cylon then why go to the trouble of seducing him with Caprica 6, unless he somehow lost his memory more permanently than Sharon 1.

Incidentally, I must have missed some stuff. How exactly does Sharon 1 act these days. It's hard to keep track with so many copies but has she taken the cylon side now? I saw her on new caprica, but later she appears to be working with the other models on the Basestar. Also what happened to Roslins cancer?

[Renegade 13]

Roslin's cancer was cured last season by a blood transfusion from Helo and Sharon's baby.

[Atrocities]

The baby will be imune to the virus too and since the Cylons have the baby it would only stand to reason that they will figure this out thus making bio-weapons worthless.

[Caduceus]

The bioweapon/virus was a good idea, but it couldn't hang over the heads of the show for episode after episode.

Good idea, let's move on.

And I agree that the baby could probably generate a cure.

[Will]

I had an interesting thought about the other five cylon models the other day...

Currently, we know of seven cylon "human" models, who seem to be the only ones that took part in the occupation of New Caprica, and all the Cylon hostilities up to this point: D'Anna, Doral, Six, Sharon, Leoben, Simon, and Cavil. We also know that these seven models made major decisions by making a vote. And, we know that at least Six is skittish when asked about the other five models; "We don't talk about them."

Now, let's assume that the basestar hybrids, the raiders, and the centurions are NOT included in the twelve models. So, there would be twelve Cylon models in the "human" form we have already seen, seven of which are currently active. So, what if there was some kind of Cylon civil war? It could explain a lot of things.

Why are the other models not present, and why do the present models not like talking about them? Perhaps because the seven we know got a little practice in genocide on the other five before turning to the humans. Or, less extreme, maybe there was just a split in the vote that could not be resolved, and the pacifist five refused to help with the war.

Why is it that the Cylons had such an overwhelming military power and were able to take out nearly all the Colonists in one strike? The computer virus Six slipped into Baltar's code accounts for part of it, but even still, the Cylons seemed to come out in overwhelming force, and may not have needed the virus. A civil war between the Cylons could explain the military strength, and it would have gone undetected since humans never ventured into Cylon space (as far as we know, beyond this week's revelation of a very short-lived scouting expedition).

[Atrocities]

I have a question that I haven't seen answered yet. Who created the human cylons?

I mean its obvious that humans created the crome versions, but who created the human versions? The chrome domes aren't especially blessed with outstanding cpu's so this begs the question, who created the human versions of the cylons?

I think the answer to that question will be a very interesting story arc. My money is a human created the human cylons and is behind this whole GOD thing that they believe in.

[AgentZero]

It's possible some variety of chromedome created the human cylons. From what I remember, humanity created the shiney ones, the shineys achieved sentience and fought a nasty little war with humanity, at the conclusion of which the sentient robots left human space. At some point after that, the chromdomes could have created the human variety, but I think it's a bit odd that the fleshy ones would have then taken a leadership role, while subsequent shineys were demoted to the non-sentient variety we all know and love today.

Of course, this all seems like an awful lot to have happened in the 20 years that the cylons were behaving themselves, so it's likely development on the human cylons began sometime during the war.

Or something...

[AngleWyrm]

Cylon evolution?

Maybe the first generation built a better cylon, which built a better cylon, which built their god. And god built the skin jobs.