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andrewducker) wrote2009-03-02 08:47 am
andrewducker) wrote2009-03-02 08:47 am
Dead but Dreaming
A few thoughts on where the last few episodes of BSG are going.
Since the very beginning there's clearly been _something_ going on. While some of it was the work of the cylons, (as manipulated by John/Cavil), there's also been a whole bunch of stuff which seemed 'unexplainable' - things which people _in_ the TV series have explained in religious terms, and which most people outside the TV series have assumed was just the writers pulling stuff out of their arse.
I think it's all Daniel.
It was explained that Cavil destroyed all of the '7's ('Daniel's) in the vats, and then corrupted the genetic formula so no more could be grown. I think that Daniel is still alive, and living inside the Cylon Matrix. He's the god in the machine - manipulating things in ways small enough that Cavil can't see them, preparing to strike back.
I think that when the Hybrids talk nonsense, it's bits of his personality being picked up.
I think that he has the ability to use resurrection tanks that are "out of the way" to create a new Starbuck (who is part Cylon and thus amenable to that kind of thing) and to grow her a new Viper (after all, that's how Cylons create their ships - out of organic goo).
And I think he has the ability to use the Cylon Projection ability to talk to part-Cylons. Like his daughter Starbuck.
Like his son, Gaius.
(You may now recall an event from season one and say "Ewwww" if you like)
I'm not 100% on Gaius - but it sure as hell would explain a lot.
and it means that we've been given the last piece of the puzzle - and the last few episodes are building towards a reveal of Daniel (presumably at the end of the episode on the 13th) in time for the two-parter climax.
The only questions that remain are around "What does he want?" - particularly "Why did he guide them to Earth?" (Unless that was him trying to "wake up" the final five (his parents) from the bad dream that Cavil had put them in.)
Thoughts?
Since the very beginning there's clearly been _something_ going on. While some of it was the work of the cylons, (as manipulated by John/Cavil), there's also been a whole bunch of stuff which seemed 'unexplainable' - things which people _in_ the TV series have explained in religious terms, and which most people outside the TV series have assumed was just the writers pulling stuff out of their arse.
I think it's all Daniel.
It was explained that Cavil destroyed all of the '7's ('Daniel's) in the vats, and then corrupted the genetic formula so no more could be grown. I think that Daniel is still alive, and living inside the Cylon Matrix. He's the god in the machine - manipulating things in ways small enough that Cavil can't see them, preparing to strike back.
I think that when the Hybrids talk nonsense, it's bits of his personality being picked up.
I think that he has the ability to use resurrection tanks that are "out of the way" to create a new Starbuck (who is part Cylon and thus amenable to that kind of thing) and to grow her a new Viper (after all, that's how Cylons create their ships - out of organic goo).
And I think he has the ability to use the Cylon Projection ability to talk to part-Cylons. Like his daughter Starbuck.
Like his son, Gaius.
(You may now recall an event from season one and say "Ewwww" if you like)
I'm not 100% on Gaius - but it sure as hell would explain a lot.
and it means that we've been given the last piece of the puzzle - and the last few episodes are building towards a reveal of Daniel (presumably at the end of the episode on the 13th) in time for the two-parter climax.
The only questions that remain are around "What does he want?" - particularly "Why did he guide them to Earth?" (Unless that was him trying to "wake up" the final five (his parents) from the bad dream that Cavil had put them in.)
Thoughts?
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Quick back-fill: Thirteen colonies were formed when the people left Kobol - 12 human ones went to the Twelve Colonies, one Cylon one went to Earth.
2000 years later Earth is destroyed by a Cylon/Centurion war, five Cylon survivors make their way to the Twelve Colonies and arrive just too late to prevent a war starting there.
We've not seen any evidence that humans can transmit minds.
But we don't know whether it's impossible.
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We know the 7 are different, because they can plug themselves in to things; but we've never seen the 5 do it. Have we seen the 5 do anything remotely like the 7?
Were the 7 not created because cylon guards wanted to develop biological life type creatures? and this was the gift from the Earth colony to the AI robot cylons?
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And the final five can do the whole cylon melding thing.
How close they are to humans, we don't know...
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What was that?
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Of course, Gaius seems to be sometimes able to do that too. So either people can, or he's part Cylon...
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Is he the only one who can?
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Got a link to anything useful on this front??
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