Galactica, the Fifth Cylon, and more!
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When it comes right down to it, I don’t really watch that much television. However, one show I do watch religiously is Battlestar Galactica. In fact, if it wasn’t for this show, I could see cancelling my cable altogether. If you don’t mind, I’ve been thinking a little bit about it, and I think I’m going to use this post to geek out a little bit. If you watch Battlestar, you may find this interesting. If you don’t, well, you should watch it! It’s the best show on television!
My first thought on the show concerns the revelation that Colonel Tigh had apparently impregnated one of the sixes. Now, this shouldn’t be possible, as it has already been established in the show that the Cylons can’t reproduce sexually. My thinking on this is that the reason the Cylons can’t reproduce is because they essentially can’t die. Till this point in the show (at least until the Hub was destroyed) they are essentially immortal. As far as mother nature is concerned (or God, for that matter), why would you grant the great gift of life to a race that doesn’t need it? Perhaps in the Battlestar theology, the price of the Cylons immortality is that they are not truly alive. Death walks with life. You can’t have one without the other.
Now, what is unique about Tigh and the other 4 ‘hidden’ Cylons is that they are unique. If they die, as far as we know, that’s it. That’s why god, or nature, has granted them the gift to create life. There are some rules of nature you just can’t break, no matter how much you learn or how advanced you are. The price for Cylon immortality may well be that they are not truly alive. This may also be why, now that the Hub is destroyed, that the other Cylons will be able to reproduce sexually. This is just a guess on my part, but I think it’s a possibility. Get ready for a Cylon baby boom!
My other thought is on the identity of the unknown fifth Cylon. When the four were revealed, they all met up in that room on the Galactica. Why didn’t the fifth Cylon show up? I suspect it was because he or she couldn’t. He or she wasn’t on the Galactica. Whoever the fifth Cylon is, he or she is someone who is not regularly on the Galactica. The top two candidates in my book are Starbuck (who was presumed dead at that point) or Tom Zarek (the original Apollo ) . The other thing I like about these two choices is that they all have a name that starts with a T. Consider:
Tigh
Tyrol
Samuel T Anders
Tori
I think Tom Zarek or Kara Thrace fits in nicely here. Of course, the whole T thing could just be a mind Frak played on by the producers. Time will tell … (although not until 2009! FRAK!)
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June 14th, 2008 at 3:19 pm
And so, Battlestar Galactica is reduced to a simple fable - we run from our past, believing the future holds something better for our species, while praying we can rise above our dark “human nature” before we do ourselves in. This episode was a mirror, showing how despite hope for a bright technological future, we’re simultaneously on the knife’s edge of destruction.
In one episode, Battlestar Galactica moved beyond the addictive, nit-picky details like “who is the last Cylon?” and “how did Tigh get Six pregnant?” and reminded me of the big picture - our irrepressibly hopeful yet frustratingly misguided humanity.
Enter Doctor Zee - The Fifth Cylon
“The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr
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