Anyone else wondering why the Cylons’ (if that’s what they are) reaction to Earth music is to be reminded of their childhoods? Intriguing… What if Earth turns out to be Cylon Manufacturing Plant #1?
That’s what he said! I couldn’t find my TV remote last night so I couldn’t turn on CC and even after rewinding it a few times I couldn’t make out what he said. “Butter fingers” is hilarious. Now I have to rewatch that scene.
I don’t know what you mean by “the thinking”. I didn’t know there was a consensus. I always figured it was in the future.
Maybe we’re the Cylons! :eek:
Nah, I subscribe to the “they make it up as they go along” theory. 
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I am on the side that these 4 Cylons are not part of THE Final Five Cylons. Maybe they are a part of a “defective line” that the official faction boxed long ago, but they somehow emerged. There is also the line of thinking that EVERYONE is a Cylon, meaning that Cylons became humans…and now is the time when my brain really starts hurting. But it is a “hurts so good” type of pain!
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I’m going with the Cylon “sex” theory - those who have had carnal relations with a Cylon now have some Cylon midichlorians or somesuch in their blood, and can pass it on to whoever they bump monkeys with. All of the “4” would be infected.
Of course, the most of the fleet would probably be, too - Lee marinated his nether rod in Starbuck’s squish mitten (who bonestormed with Baltar, who in turn had swished the binglefink with Caprica Six), and was also boinking a prostitute earlier in Season 2, who are apparently in high demand in the fleet.
I like how you talk.
I thought the thirteenth colony, Earth, fell into a primitive state and Greek mythology was one of the few things remembered.
Baltar alone has probably felgarcarbed half the fleet by this point (one year on New Caprica in the presidential bordello, after all…). And Ellen Tigh was working her way through the other half of the fleet. To say nothing of Starbuck and Blanders, neither of whose legs apparently go into the “closed” position.
So by that theory, they really are all Cylons. Except for poor Gaeta, who’s gotten no muffins at all.
After sleeping on it, but somewhat frazzled from a long day in Court, I have more questions than answers…
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OK, so the song activated the Cylons. Groovy. Where did the song come from? Somebody had to broadcast it throughout the ship, and somehow disquise the signal from all the other signal traffic around a Battlestar/Fleet/Trial-like-event.
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Gaeta is a liar liar pants on fire. Lied under oath, which also makes him guilty of perjury. Does he hate Baltar that much, or does he want Baltar dead because Baltar has dirt on Gaeta?
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As mentioned above, power failure as the 4 Cylons awaken. Did they cause it, or not?
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Hold the “told ya so” conga line on Starbuck. Right now, we do not know what the frak Lee actually saw, if anything. We saw a very shiny, perhaps even mildly luminous Viper-of-Light, with the right actress in the cockpit. Could be Starbuck, could be an imaginary friend, could be some mystical being, could be a Cylon.
Wild Ass Speculation pulled from deep in my ass:
IF the four new cylons are evil, the Fleet is fucked. The Admiral and the President are vulnerable to assassination by their respective closest advisors. Chief could put bombs in all the vipers, or otherwise ensure that the birds are not mission ready when needed. Anders can turn heel during combat, or otherwise cause trouble.
Therefore, I’m guessing that either they aren’t all really Cylons, or if the are, not all of them are evil. Also wondering if Tigh is looking for a grenade to fall on. His line about if he dies today, he’ll be remembered as a man could be foreshadowing his death. Still thinking that some type of Cylon Civil War may be in the offing.
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Looking at the song lyrics:**
The Thief = Lampkin? He’s a klepto-lawyer…but not otherwise tied in to the new Cylons. Maybe Anders as The Joker? He had more interaction with Chief, including some lyric quoting…but has either Chief or Anders been shown stealing?
The Two Riders seem to be obvioulsy Lee and Starbuck.
The Princes…the four new Cylons? Or Adama, Rosilyn, Tigh?
Bleh…this post is rambling. Enough already.
But at least he has butter fingers.
Try AD 6798 or later. The Colonials have at least 4,000 years of recorded history.
I never thought they were from ancient Earth. For that to the case aliens would’ve needed to abducted humans millenia ago and that’s been done to death (Stargate, Farscape, Star Trek, etc). My theory is that Kobol was a colony of Earth. For whatever reason the colonists decided to base their culture on the ancient Greeks. Fast forward a few millenia and there’s a civil war on Kobol. The Colonials have their history mixed up. This would of course set BSG around the 13th millennium.
Roslin was cured by Hera’s stem cells, not just a sample of her blood. IANAD, but hasn’t Heta gotten too old for that trick to work again?
Hera may be too old, but she is not the only poptart in the fleet.
How is this for a point thus far missed:
With everything else going on, just How did Helo know something was up?
Remember, things happen for a reason
I think BSG the original series held that Earth was colonized by humans from elsewhere. Not sure if this series holds that as canon or not.
But if so it would suggest that the ancient Earth humans had Greek Mythology from a common forebear. We (Earthings) got over it, and our brother and sisters in space did not. Regardless, I don’t think it would offer any timeline for what would be concurrent Earth once they get there.
They’ll find it infested with Borg anyway.
I think Cally has a dirty little secret she’s keeping from Galen. 
That would be a more reasonable explanation–but The Vorlon’s link casts doubt on that theory…
Speculations…
Cavil interrogated Tigh a little too much and killed him. He wanted information about the resistance so he just tried their new-fangled experiment of duplicating people as Cylons and it worked. Then he started started to duplicate other people like Tyrol and Anders in hopes of just turning all the humans into Cylons. He hasn’t told the other Cylons yet beacuse he wants to use the experiments to help him get rid of those reincarnation headaches and he wants to see if he can remote control his duplicates to destroy the Fleet.
Starbuck in her deadly form visited Earth. She liked this quintissential song and when she came back she put it on the Cylon Emergency Broadcast System. The regular Cylons are going nuts with the song blaring in their heads. Tigh, Tyrol, et.al. are just barely hearing it because they aren’t tuned in fully.
Like Galactica 1980 {shudder :)}, they’ll find present-day Earth ill-equipped to resist Cylons so Galactica will fight a blockade while Cylons infiltrating Earth will be met with our cast routing them out.
So Tori - morning sickness?
So is Nicky meant to be Hera’s mate 
? And are the Cylon models balanced as to gender? We’ve seen 5 females (6, Sharon, D’Anna, and Tori) and 6 males (Doral, Leoban, Simon, Cavil, Tigh, and Anders). Is the last Cylon a woman?
Aw, frak. So much for my thinking they weren’t actually part of the Final Five Cylons. So they are a “fundamentally” different kind of Cylon; well, that’s helpful. In that case, Tyrol and Cally’s baby (assuming that it’s his) is a fundamentally different kind of PopTart. 
Alright then, on to other things. My WAG concerning Starbuck is that she’s not actually alive in the usual sense, nor is she exactly a figment of Lee’s imagination. I think we’ll find that she’s transcended normal human existence [/shades of Daniel Jackson] and is going to be like the fleet’s guardian angel, showing up periodically to help point the way.
I spent some time at lunch today looking through all the quotes posted on WikiQuote. What struck me is Lee’s consistent view, from early on, that upholding the law and performing his duties are the most important things - see the quotes from episodes 1.03, 1.13, and 2.14 in particular. It makes his outburst in the courtroom more understandable, IMO. He feels terrible frustration, because he would sacrifice the relationships with those closest to him in order to uphold an ideal, but that ideal is crumbling apart. So, if he’s made those sacrifices in vain and the system of law is truly going to hell in a handbasket, why not tell everyone exactly what he thinks? Even if it isn’t the most eloquent oratory, it’s heartfelt. And that’s Lee to a T - his heart is always out on his sleeve.