How machiney have the Final Five (or other meatbags) acted? Not very, IMO.
I still think they made the others - as for the rest, for all we know they numbered themselves based on astrology or something.
-Joe
The Cylons the Colonials created were the purely mechanical ones seen in a museum in the miniseries and in Razor. They look and sound exactly like the Cylon Centurians from the original series. The Colonials weren’t even aware of the humaniod Cylons until the miniseries. The numbering scheme doesn’t make any sense. We’ve met; One (Cavil), Two (Leoban), Three (D’Anna), Four (Simon), Five (Doral), Six, and Eight (Sharon). That means the Final Five consist of models Seven, Nine, Ten, Eleven, and Twelve. It’s weird that the Final Five Cylons don’t have the final five numbers, but who’s to say the model numbers have anything to do with the order they were created in. The sex ratio is lopsided and so far every female Cylon has turned out to be a hottie, whil only one male Cylon is. :dubious: There’s also been speculation that the 12 Cylons are somehow connected to the Lords of Kobol. The Lords of Kobol seem to be indentical with the Twelve Olympians of Greco-Roman mythology. They consisted of 6 gods and 6 godesses. Roslin could pass for Hera-Juno, and Kara for Athena-Minerva or Artemis-Diana.
If that’s the biggest continuity glitch we’ve found, other than the glowing spines, then Ron Moore is doing pretty damn well. He obviously didn’t write every script ahead of time, and has had to deal with the real possibility of cancellation and having to wrap up the series rapidly at a number of points, so as long as this doesn’t turn into another “Twin Peaks” I’ll cut him all the slack he can use.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who’s been thinking this…
I don’t think it’s a continuity glitch-- I think it has a reason. The first 6 are Cylons who know they’re Cylons, while the last 6 (including the Sharon Valerii Eight) are sleepers among humans who did not know they were Cylons for a portion of their lives. The numbering system seems to deliberately separate the models, with Eight being the one exception… or not, and there’s something about her we don’t know about yet that connects her to 7 and 9-12.
Or worse, The X-Files.
The different nature, and significance, of the Final Five didn’t come up until this final season was under contract, and that was doubtful until it happened. If Moore had had to wrap it up by the end of Season 3, at least enough to make a closing movie, I don’t think the lack of a #7 would be an issue; it would be just one of several models we haven’t seen yet. Isn’t the failure of the humans to ask their prisoners about the numbering gap telling?
Episode numbering takes into account the standalone movie Razor. “Sine Qua Non” is the eleventh “show” but the ninth “episode of the season.” We’ll have a break of undeterminate length following “show twelve”/“episode ten.” See here.
Adama busted him in rank when he went apeshit following the airlocking of his [del]hag[/del] wife.
Since they don’t frak to reproduce (they’re made in a cup, like soup), I guess it’s kind of moot what the gender ratio is.
Six walks by.
Leoben: I’ll be in mah cup.
Why no Battlestar on Sky One tonight? Have we hit the break? When dpoes it return?
Radio Times has it showing tomorrow night at 9. Dunno why it wasn’t tonight. Guardian then says we have to wait until next year for the concluding half of the season. I sincerely hope that is a lie.
Gender is much more than just a means of reproduction. Your body affects your outlook on the world. As machines, you’d think they’d want a more, um, well-rounded humanoid physical experience, especially since they’re so interested in hybridization. Makes me think the Final Fifth is female, though I have no guesses about who it is at this point.
Despite his drunken rant in the bar, I don’t think it’s true that Galen didn’t love Cally; he was just pissed off and driven half crazy by the manifest shittiness of the entire situation they’re all in, which is perfectly understandable. There were enough scenes of genuine affection between them to suggest he loved her.
From what I remember, he hadn’t busted him yet when he called him “Specialist.” I dunno. It’s an odd rank to call someone though. It’s Army, and it’s enlisted grade 4. Not three, not five or six. Four. They’ve phased out all the other Specialist grades.
As for male vs. female Cylons, well there’s three females and four males among the first seven, but the Hybrid is also female, so that makes four and four, in a way. Plus, Sharon & Six get way more screen-time.
I’m not sure if we should even think of the final five as part of the “12 models” anymore. They come from earth so they can’t have evolved from the Cylons created by the Colonials.
Assuming the Seven were created by the basic Cylons and not just a bunch of skinjobs who saw an opportunity.
-Joe
You’re saying all 12 came from earth?
I’m saying it’s possible. I find it easier to believe that the 12 are Lords of Kobol and Five went to Earth and the other Seven went to the Colonies than a bunch of barely-sentient bots creating wholly convincing human replicas in 40 years.
So, only Five of them know how to get back to Earth, because only The Five had been there.
-Joe
That has always struck me as being strange, and I hope Ron Moore spent the long hiatus from making excrement up as he went along in constructing a convincing explanation.
But this is TV, with the GSP™ and where some variety of Boomer stuck a coaxial cable into her vein in order to interface with some device. 
Radio Times is wrong. It was scheduled for last night on Sky One with the usual repeat tonight on Sky Two, but now it’s been put back a week until next Tuesday.
And yes, AFAIK, that’s us finished until 2009! 