Thing One and Thing Two might have been failed prototypes, making the five Nos. 9 thru 13.
The Eights are the ones who’ve disobeyed orders, lost their grip on reality, and even actually produced a traitor, but no, instead they have to box the type whose actress has a big contract. Not the Eights.
Which one is Blanders? I think you’ve got the key, though. Who would she need to apologize to? Did she have much to do wtih Starbuck’s imprisonment. Or Tigh’s? Didn’t she have a really weird look on her face when she heard that the temple was 4k years old? Was it an “Am I a Cylon” look?
I think I asked this last season, but I’m still confused about the hybrids. What are the hybrids of? Do the writers ever explain that?
Well, that would suck because in order for B to wake up in goo the Cylons would have to be carrying around spare bodies. If they’ve got spare bodies for the F5 what’s the big mystery about D’Anna trying to see what they look like? Maybe it’s just healing goo and not resurrection goo.
[spoiler]which lends credence to the theory that TPTB are simply making it up as they go along, and unlike the Toasters, they have no plan…
besides, the gasp Balty lets out was the startled, panicked gasp of a resurrected Cylon who had just regained conciousness and found themselves in a “Tub-O’-Snot™” brand Goocuzi… (okay, i admit it, i just wanted to refer to the Goocuzi™ as a “Tub-O-Snot” )
…and is it just me, or does the goo in the Goocuzi™ bear more than a passing resemblance to Ectoplasmic Residue?, i’d imagine there are outtakes somewhere where the actor in the Goocuzi™ looks at the camera and states “He slimed me…”, or moans out “Braaaaiiiinnns!!!” [/SPOILER]
The idea that Baltar is dreaming seems pretty obvious to me. It might be an idea to wait a week before whipping out “they suck! they’re making it up as they go!”.
I gather they have a general arc for the big stuff (IE - what the Cylons want, how it will end, and the road to Earth) but the smaller stories are made up as they go along.