Somebody clarify. The skins are mass-produced, and walk around in a haze until one of their “number” dies, then they go in the tank to get memories? And the duplicate numbers all have different sets of memories? Or what?
Ahh! thank you. That makes sense, and I wonder where my mind wandered to during that part, because the episode was one of the best of the season.
Also, about the cylons (the skinbags, in particular): Do we suppose that the whole red, glowing orgasmo-spine they seem to sport is clearly visible to someone who might be watching? If so, that’s a pretty big give-away. Of course, it would take just the right circumstances to figure it out… hmmm, I wonder if they have mirrored ceilings at the Cloud 9 Hotel?
The surrogate mother of the Cylon baby says,“She’s so beautifull…When I lost my baby, I didn’t know how I could go on.”
I suggest that is the corpse they used.
No idea… I just don’t get how he could’ve survived ‘any other way’… there was some ‘intersting eye play’ as Six re-awoke as the name was passed around.
As Baltar points out at the end… these 2 units are special, due to their ‘love’ for specific humans (or possibly humanity at all).
Good episode to raise lots of new questions… and kinda/sorta answered some old ones.
Oops. I got out of sync when I went to find her lines. 
Dunno 'bout that, Roslyn needed Cottle to do something distasteful, and a simple switcheroo really wouldn’t be. I think he drugged the baby just long enough to show Boomer its body, and didn’t give her any options other than cremation. Anyway, don’t look for the census board on Colonial One to read 48,506.5 now.
But you’re right, the adoptive mom was preggers so she couldn’t be one. It will be damn tough for her to explain to her friends what happened, though - and just imagine the first time she brings the Pop Tart in for an exam and asks Cottle about the glowing spine.
Nice touch, Roslyn asking if she can come visit it from time to time - to drink its blood, muahahaha…
I think it’s now settled that FleetSix is a psychosis, or imprint, of some sort, not a meat chip. Apparently Cylons can’t fall in love without getting totally messed up, either.
Good on yer, Ron - this one makes up for the last few, and more.
Good suggestion, and certainly implied… just not directly stated. IMHO, the lady they gave poptart to was much too calm and happy… .had she just lost her own baby (same proximate size and age and and and) I would’ve thought her demeaner much ‘different’.
Also… Rosylin gave doc cottle a choice of 4 folks (presumably to take the baby) - All anonymous - All trustworthy… I don;t think there was any consideration given to recent loss, etc.
In short… I have no idea where they got the little corpse from.
She shielded him from the blast. Hey, it’s TV.
Perhaps the only four women who had recently miscarried?
Well, I don’t know if they are in a ‘daze’ or not… but they seemed to have plenty of time to watch metalbots plant trees.
I assumed that that the new downloads were into ‘previously unreleased’ bodies… and that the other copies were just waiting to be needed.
But I like the idea that those are zombies just waiting for ‘braaaaiiiiinnnnnsssss’!
Apparently the mindless spare bodies are kept in tanks until the receive memory uploads. Yes, there are many copies of each model, each with different experiences.
That model was the photographer from the decommissioning ceremony, abandoned by Adama on the ammo-dump ship.
Just FTR, the Xenabot model is a 3, the photog is a 5, Six is a 6, Boomer is an 8, right? The centurion and the bullethead (as Kara’s BF called it) would be 1 and 2 if the order is chronological. The Raider could be 4, maybe a 7 is a Basestar?
And I can live with that… after all it is TV.
Cylons said ‘house destroyed’… Cylons said ‘nuke blast’
Cylons either did not know baltar escaped (relatively unharmed— few scratches IIRC) or they are deliberately lying to Six… and not sure to what end.
If they ‘knew’ that her love experience was going to let loose a trojan horse, then I would suggest that she needed to be ‘boxed’ right then and there.
Very interesting indeed.
Are you suggesting that there can be no “new” Cylons because there are no experiences, or for lack of a better expression, no souls waiting for them?
Well, there is the black doctor… and I always took it that there were 12 meat varieties.
I got the impression that the “Boomer thing” was the first “unbeliever” upon ressurection. To believe otherwise in my opinion introdices too many levels of deception for rational story telling. But, hey, it’s TV.
ANd I would agree with you… that boomer was the first directly upon awakening… Six was converted by boomer and BaltarChip… proving that ‘Love Hurts’.
Hmm, I think I may disagree. I believe she was handcuffed when she woke up in the vat, suggesting that they’ve had problems before. On the other hand, Six that died in the house with Baltar was handcuffed too, and that was close to the beginning of the war, so maybe it doesn’t mean anything. Anyway, it was a curious addition, and otherwise completely unnecessary to the episode.
Leoben’s absence was interesting. They probably couldn’t get him for the filming, but maybe there’s something else going on. It would be cool if Six and Boomer aren’t the first Cylons to repent their sins.
In Starbuck’s flyby recon of the Resurrection Ship, the pictures show bodies in some kind of transparent cases. I remember thinking they looked like Six bodies, at the time.
I thought that was to keep them from hurting themselves thrashing around or drowning in the bubble bath.
I’m wondering if we might have caught a quick glimpse of a new model. I noticed this briefly while watching the episode live, and then went back to double check. Sure enough, at timestamp 28:11 to 28:15 (according to my DVR) there’s a quick transitional scene, in between the one in which Helo and BoomerMommy are marvelling at their daughter’s awesome grip, and the one in which Anders is blasting his way into the parking garage.
In the scene, an actress dressed as a Six model with a bad wig walks with a heavyset balding man through the open space of the cafe that is later bombed. I thought at first that the man might be Doral, but Doral’s got all his hair (check timestamp 13:53 for a good look at the back of Doral’s head). The only other male Cylon models are Leoben and Simon, the doctor in the baby factory on Caprica; Simon’s dark-skinned, so it obviously wasn’t him, and the images of Leoben I could find online didn’t seem to match this guy.
So, who was he? And more importantly, who among the known characters does he resemble from behind?
Or have I had too much shiraz? Which is an entirely plausible alternative.