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Unanswered Questions, Wild Theories and Strange Observations for/about/on BSG.

Personally, I just find it fascinating that the Cylons have their Missing Five (who presumably came into existence between the last Cylon War and the current one), just as humans have their Temple of Five (which are from the era of migration that founded the twelve colonies, well before the invention of Cylons). There is much more to the running theme of "all this has happened before" than a mere metaphor.
 

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Three don't seem to be any other intelligent races around, aside from the humans and the Cylons. Just something to consider.

And how does Earth related to Kobol and the 12 colonies?
 

One wild theory is that the final five cylons actually believe in (and know more about) the Lords of Kobol, which is their sin. It would sort of be the counterpart to the temple of the five being built by the five priest of the one god.
 

I wonder sometimes, perhaps the other five cylons were killed off for some reason. Either accidentally or intentionally. Granted, I am basing this solely off of the expression of Caprica's face when she said "we don't talk about them anymore."
It seemed a expression of deep shame/regret/pain as if something was done to the other five.
Though, I readily admit that I am perhaps looking too deeply into this.

Another theory of course is that the Cylons are lying. Completely and utterly. That wouldn't explain Baltar's vision of the five or Lawless' (forgot her on screen name and am too lazy to look it up in IMDB even though that would have cost less effort than writing this sentence. It wasn't Dianne was it?), unless he heard about the five before the vision and he just fabricated it.

One other thing about Lawless' character: If suicide is a mortal sin and she keeps killing herself why aren't the other Cylons stopping her? I'm assuming that it's just the one individual. I mean, they must figure it out eventually, what with the welcome party everytime she downloads.
 

Joker said:
I wonder sometimes, perhaps the other five cylons were killed off for some reason. Either accidentally or intentionally. Granted, I am basing this solely off of the expression of Caprica's face when she said "we don't talk about them anymore."
It seemed a expression of deep shame/regret/pain as if something was done to the other five.
Though, I readily admit that I am perhaps looking too deeply into this.

Another theory of course is that the Cylons are lying. Completely and utterly. That wouldn't explain Baltar's vision of the five or Lawless' (forgot her on screen name and am too lazy to look it up in IMDB even though that would have cost less effort than writing this sentence. It wasn't Dianne was it?), unless he heard about the five before the vision and he just fabricated it.

One other thing about Lawless' character: If suicide is a mortal sin and she keeps killing herself why aren't the other Cylons stopping her? I'm assuming that it's just the one individual. I mean, they must figure it out eventually, what with the welcome party everytime she downloads.
Only permanent suicide is a sin. Killing your body to download in another is acceptable. Cavill did it too, when the resistance on New Caprica left him bleeding in the sun.
 

Fast Learner said:
It's just got an extra right-parens at the end. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophiuchus


My bad. I meant the second link in the post was giving me trouble. Thanks, though. :)


Mustrum_Ridcully said:
Only permanent suicide is a sin. Killing your body to download in another is acceptable. Cavill did it too, when the resistance on New Caprica left him bleeding in the sun.


Yeah, with a shell casing, right? But he did it for the good of the whole, didn't he? To make sure the information got back to the command?
 

Mark CMG said:
My bad. I meant the second link in the post was giving me trouble. Thanks, though. :)





Yeah, with a shell casing, right? But he did it for the good of the whole, didn't he? To make sure the information got back to the command?
He did it because he didn't like drying and bleeding out in the sun. Relaying the information was only a secondary concern, I think. The way he described it didn't sound like he made a report, but as he shared his experiences with the bad humans, and how he neither liked his situation nor his painful resourection. :)
 

I am going to take this opportunity to suggest, again, that there may not be vast numbers of the final five Cylons they way there are for the known seven. The final five Cylons may be only individual units. Which means, again, nearly anyone may be a Cylon.
 


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