Yes, this is my second BSG thread within the span of a few hours, but we’ll get the answer soon so this is the best time to guess who the final Cylon will be.
My guess? Starbuck, for obvious reasons (never pays to dismiss the obvious).
On another point, I’m hoping that the fact that Earth and humanity had been incinerated, pretty much contrary to prophecy, reveals that all the religious claims from all sides were bullshit all along…
Hey, I can dream!
I’ll guess Gaeta. Doubt we’ll find out tomorrow night, but early in the remaining episodes.
I’m not guessing who the final Cylon is, but WRT Starbuck, I’ve thought for a long time she might be the first hybrid, with daddy being a Cylon. But, that would make daddy the final Cylon and I think the final Cylon is supposed to be someone we’ve already seen.
Of course, if Dirk Benedict shows up as Starbuck’s father, I want it on record I said it. 
Because of his flitting on the periphery of power throughout the show, I’m voting for Tom Zarek. But my overriding question is: why does it matter (narratively?) Aside from Sam’s ability to blink and scare off toasters, Cylonity has just been an existential crisis for the Watchtower Four. Number 5 is suppose to be different? Why? It could be some dame on a botany ship in charge of fertilizer storage who goes “whaddaya mean I’m a cylon, I’m suppose to know something about anything?”
If the last cylon turns out to be Ellen Tigh, I fucking called it..
Doc Cottle would be good too. Called!
Given the way he has trashed the new series, that just doesn’t seem very likely.
That was my guess.
I actually think it might be one of the known cylons, possibly a Six. So far it seems the final five are only individuals and not a whole series each so there is no reason (so far) that the last cylon can’t look like one of the previous models but still be different. And if I remember correctly there is at least one 8 and one 6 that have been significant to the plot and have never been shown to die.
But whoever it is I hope it isn’t Starbuck. I liked the idea that she was just a badass fighter pilot whose prowess was natural and not the result of her status as Scifi Jesus.
He trashed it, but he also did the Starbuck with Starbuck at Starbuck’s publicity thing, didn’t he?
Yeah, I thought of this too; did she appear to the Col. Tigh only in his mind, or actually?
Why does it need to be humanoid? I call Starbuck’s shiny new ride.
I think it’s either Dualla, Callie Tyrol, or (my official choice) Billy Keikeya.
I am still saying Gaeta.
I thought in the episode they networked the computers his moving stuff around the bathroom was a signal to a sleeper as opposed to inspiration.
And then he let the Cylons through the firewall.
I very much doubt it’s Felix. I suggest that once you have seen the latest online webisodes (discussed with open spoilers elsewhere in this forumhere), you’ll consider him much less likely. The producers and writers probably won’t want to compound this last minute business with another heavy load.
I’m stickin’ with Starbuck: Back from the dead and with a special ship? If Earth had been intact, I could maybe see Starbuck not being the final Cylon (i.e., something like she and the ship gets patched up on Earth), but otherwise? I don’t see it.
Poor Billy - the guy with the internship from hell. Whenever I saw him, I kept thinking “However many academic credits he’s getting for this, it just isn’t enough.”
But we have already seen her mother. I think it’s entirely possible the final Cylon is Starbuck’s mother.
The main clue I keep thinking of is that Deanna indicated the final Cylon wasn’t with the fleet. If that’s true (and assuming Deanna is aware of everyone on the fleet - she may well have used her time as a reporter examining the records of all the survivors) then it must be:
I think Starbuck’s mother makes the most sense out of all of those. (Well, actually Baltar really makes the most sense out of those - but dramatically, I just don’t think they’d go for someone that obvious.) It makes Kara significant by being the first human-Cyclon hybrid, and if her mother actually turns up, provides the opportunity for Kara to confront a lot of stuff about who she is and how she became that way, both in terms of her general issues and all the destiny/return from the dead stuff that’s been going on.
(Although, if that clue about not being with the fleet is wrong, then I’m voting Doc Cottle. The man maintains he can’t tell the difference between humans and beings who can jack a plug into their arteries to connect to a computer? I don’t buy it. He was buying time for his plan to play out.)
Nope, it’s Boxey (Og save us all!)
There was a piece in our newspaper today (St. Pete Times) written by a guy who saw this episode’s screener DVD, minus one major scene which was cut from the DVD, which he believed is probably the last cylon revelation that they did not want leaked.
…or, it could be that Darth Vader is Starbuck’s father. 
I just finished my season 4.0 re-watch and I’m casting my bet on Madame Airlock herself, Laura Roslin. There’s a lot going on with the mysticism and visions that are tough to explain without it. She was on the rebel basestar when D’Anna mentions “4 in the fleet,” and I’m willing to believe that D’Anna’s fake out in “The Hub” might just be a double fake out, designed to put us off the trail and fake the viewers out.
If I’m wrong though…
I can’t stop thinking about the whole Cylon reproduction plan. It would seem that there are 3 babies that are the product of cylon parents.
Nicky…Son of Chief & Cally. Chief is a cylon. Cally’s human.
Hera…Daughter of Athena & Helo. Helo’s human, Sharon’s the toaster.
Unborn kid from the union of Caprica Six & Tigh. Both cylons.
So…which kid is super special? All three? Or is there something else going on? On Caprica, the Cylons set up labs to try to reproduce with no progress. And yet in the years since the original attack, 3 cylons have kids? Maybe the final model is Helo. That would leave Nicky as the true hybrid, if final fivers & original cylons can reproduce.
I don’t think they would give us a Tigh/Six pregnancy unless it is deliberately trying to tell us something. It could be something sinister, like the cylons deciding that they don’t need humans if they can reproduce on their own. The ‘Watchtower’ four seem to be a bit more human than the other models…and the other models were programmed not to think about them. I tend to think that the original plan was to wipe out most of humanity, and then start fresh together. The final five were designed to make that possible, by showing everyone how similar they all are. The ultimate architect of this plan just might be a human (imperious leader, anyone?) and my guess on his identity is Baltar, making him the Cylon ‘God.’ If Baltar’s able to program backstories onto models like Boomer or Tigh, he could have done it to himself as well, erasing his own memory of the plan and how everything went down…he ultimately sees himself as humanity’s savior.
Something about Baltar’s confession in “The Hub” stands out to me. He mentions a biblical style flood, and then says “No one blames the flood” in regards to the destruction it causes. Since the flood washes away the past, and opens the way to the future, it’s even looked at as an overall positive. Granted, in this case the flood is nuclear devastation, but the end result is the same.
Or it’s Lee’s Caprican girlfriend from “Black Market.”
I’m guessing that we’ll find out sooner rather than wait till the last episode. In fact, I expect to either find out tonight, or next week.