THE battlestar galactica theory
The quick explanation. I'll leave the details to fill in later:
The "final five" cylon models are actually human-cylon offspring from generations and generations and generations of cross-breeding. They're really not like the other seven at all -- those models are recent builds (well, recent in the sense of just a few years).
Think of the final five as humans who just happen to have inhereted a bunch of ancient cylon DNA, enough long-forgotten bits of genetic material accumulated from a lot of different family tree branches that it "activated" the cylon portions of their otherwise human bodies and brains.
OK. Got that? I know, I know ... Where exactly would such ancient cylon DNA come from, since the other seven skinjobs are fairly new?
Here's where the theory gets really funky.
What we are observing on the series in the "present" actually involves a time-shift or dimensional rift of some sort as the humans and cylons jump across the universe and back in time to the founding of the original 12 Tribes. ... They ARE the founders.
Once the cylons and humans reach earth, they start the cycle over. They fall in love, have offspring, repopulate the species, grow. Over the millennia their offspring and offspring's offspring forget there was ever a difference. Their origins are lost; the concept of a "cylon" simply disappears from recorded history. ... But the cylon genetic code is carried forward, possibly broken down as "junk DNA," hidden and seemingly insignificant.
Until some day, a long time later, humans decide to construct a newfangled robot helper they call "cylon" ... bringing the cycle full circle.
The hints and evidence are there. Maybe I'll expound on those clues later.
Whatchathink?
The quick explanation. I'll leave the details to fill in later:
The "final five" cylon models are actually human-cylon offspring from generations and generations and generations of cross-breeding. They're really not like the other seven at all -- those models are recent builds (well, recent in the sense of just a few years).
Think of the final five as humans who just happen to have inhereted a bunch of ancient cylon DNA, enough long-forgotten bits of genetic material accumulated from a lot of different family tree branches that it "activated" the cylon portions of their otherwise human bodies and brains.
OK. Got that? I know, I know ... Where exactly would such ancient cylon DNA come from, since the other seven skinjobs are fairly new?
Here's where the theory gets really funky.
What we are observing on the series in the "present" actually involves a time-shift or dimensional rift of some sort as the humans and cylons jump across the universe and back in time to the founding of the original 12 Tribes. ... They ARE the founders.
Once the cylons and humans reach earth, they start the cycle over. They fall in love, have offspring, repopulate the species, grow. Over the millennia their offspring and offspring's offspring forget there was ever a difference. Their origins are lost; the concept of a "cylon" simply disappears from recorded history. ... But the cylon genetic code is carried forward, possibly broken down as "junk DNA," hidden and seemingly insignificant.
Until some day, a long time later, humans decide to construct a newfangled robot helper they call "cylon" ... bringing the cycle full circle.
The hints and evidence are there. Maybe I'll expound on those clues later.
Whatchathink?
