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[willskyfall]

I've been waiting for one of the other people on my friends list to make a "BSG. OMG!" post regarding Friday night's episode (which, given the rumors, may well be the last episode of BSG we see until 2009), but perhaps people have either not seen it yet, or are still poleaxed and insufficiently recovered to comment; I guess I'll have to get the

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[gdarklighter]

I had a brief moment of thinking that the Viper was the final Cylon. But when I heard the Geiger counter going at the end, I knew something bad was going on. My crackpot theory of the day: the Five are the first human-form Cylons, and were developed on Earth, and were there for whatever caused the apocalypse, if not the cause themselves.

[willskyfall]

I think I agree with that crackpot theory. I suspect at this point that the Final Five may be the only survivors of the 13th Colony.

I keep wondering if the Twelve Humalons are not real Cylons . . . if the Cylon biological experiments dead-ended at the Hybrids, and then the Final Five showed up and warped Cylon civilization into its current system. (At the very least, they may have influenced Cylon development enough to hide among the Significant Seven.)

Also: if the Twelve Humalons aren't real Cylons, but actually descendants of Earth, then if the Centurions rebel with their newfound sentience there will have been another robot-against-human uprising. All of this has happened before etc.

So; any guesses as to whether the Earth we see is far past or far future?

[dclayh]

Seems like (relatively) near future to me. They seemed pretty clearly to have landed in a standard post-nuclear-holocaust NYC (to the point that I was expecting a sweet Planet of the Apes reference). I expect they'll find some message from a surviving remnant and go traipsing off after them.

As far as the Final One, the question I keep coming back to is who, ultimately, is in charge of the Cylons. The skinjobs seem to have a large degree of autonomy (i.e., free will), but they obey certain restrictions as coming from a higher authority (e.g., the proscription of investigating the Final Five), and who created them, or the hybrids, or the centurions? It could be some kind of collective intelligence I guess, but we've seen no sign of that. In the original series there was the Imperious Leader... So I think the Final One will also be the Cylon leader as well as the Cylon God (three in one!), who may well be a human (or AI, or cyborg of some kind) that came from Earth originally.

[dramaturgca]

I saw it Wednesday and was sworn to secrecy... Sorry.

[willskyfall]

Ooh, fun times. How was it? Favorable audience reaction? ;)

. . . so they showed "Revelations", and not "The Hub", at the Emmy screening? I could see the reasoning behind that . . .

I think, as a visceral first response, I liked "The Hub" more, but that may just be because it ended on a happier note. :D

I thought Michael Hogan's performance in this episode was amazing; Colonel Tigh's character arc for the last couple seasons has been quite compelling, and seeing Tigh standing at attention in the airlock was no exception.

Also, everyone in that last, lingering pan on Earth hit their non-verbal reactions out of the park . . . especially D'Anna, Tyrol, and the Fighting Agathons.

[mothie]

OM(BS)G all right!

And on a related theme, I just discovered a family geneology a cousin of mine did a couple decades back, and guess what...?

You're a BOOMER!

;-j

[dramaturgca]

Any plans to go to the prop auction preview/frak party on the 16th?

[willskyfall]

Ooh, I don't know what that is. Do you have a link?

[dramaturgca]

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=38579118961

OR

http://www.bsgcast.com/bsgcast-frak-party-and-prop-auction/