Like most BSG fans I thought Crossroads II was an amazing episode, but it was also a big old WTF? The identities of four of the Final Five Cylons posed more questions than they answered. My picks for the Final Five were Dualla, Anders, Gaeta, Tory Foster and of course the lovable scoundrel Kara “Starbuck” Thrace. So I was not completely wrong and they jury is still out on Starbuck. The real surprises were obviously Saul Tigh and Chief Tyrol, but as a whole it is a strange group. One interesting fact is that all of the Four of Five were involved in the insurgency on New Caprica. Saul Tigh
No one saw this one coming right?. Saul Tigh, really? Tigh’s involvement in the first Cylon war and his torture on New Caprica pretty much put him out of the BSG Final Five Office Pool. Ronald D. Moore has stated that these four are really part of the Final Five. So with the possibility of Cylon mind games ruled out what does this actually mean? Have these five Cylons been around their whole lives just waiting for an activation signal like Boomer did. Another question that is posed by Tigh’s Cylon origin is this; Are these Cylons recent duplicates of people that already lived or are they actually the ages that they appear?
Samuel Anders
Samuel Anders seemed a lot more plausible suspect than they other three. Anders was on Caprica and survived the initial Cylon attack, multiple skirmishes on Caprica and even a bad case of pneumonia on New Caprica. This dude even survived an encounter that kind of sounds sexy but should have been deadly; a threesome of Six, Sharon and Number Three. All this and he still manages to hook up with Kara Thrace and Tory Foster, that’s more luck than he deserves. Interestingly enough Anders is the most shocked out of the Four of Five.
Chief Galen Tyrol
We all know that Galen Tyrol likes a sexy toaster (skin job is so vulgar) as his relationship with Boomer showed. Galen is the parent of a Cylon-Human hybrid just like Sharon, so maybe they can share parenting tips. Like the other Four of Five (I’ll keep using it until it catches on) he was involved in the insurgency on New Caprica. One other similarity with Tigh and Tory is that works in a sector of the fleet that would be strategically advantageous to the Cylons. It is also interesting that Galen played such a large role in the military operations on New Caprica when he had not previously shown any aptitude or knowledge in military matters. Chief Tyrol is the only one out of the four that had expressed a suspicion that he could be a Cylon.
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Just a couple of points: We don't know for sure that Tigh was actually in the Cylon War, and with Adama at that. It seems as though they met after the Cylon War ended. The two wars he was speaking of, could very well have been inter-colony wars rather than the Cylon wars. Also, there's a good possibility that the humanoid Cylons were created near to, or at the end of the Cylon war. From what RDM reports in interviews, and from what we've seen so far, these Four (Five) Cylons are fundamentally different to the Seven and OPPOSED to the Seven.
I think Tory's regret when she told Roslin about Hera not making it off of New Caprica is real. She is very loyal to Roslin, no matter what she is.
Here's another similarity: Tigh, Tory, Samuel T. Anders, Tyrol.....
Watch the new BSG Webisodes for Razor. The Hybrids came about during the first war, not before and not after. A war would have been a perfect time of disarray to start dispersing hybrid sleeper agents.
Hint, what if earth, 13th tribe, was in fact not a “human planet” but the original cyclones evolved…… revisionist history is wonderful thing…Rarely are good and evil as we see them. History is written from a winners perspective.
Producers said that Starbuck and Roslin would not come out as cylons. ever. it would screw the story up. I want 'Xena' to bring her ass back and let us know whats up.
That would make a lot of sense. It could explain the disconnect from the current Cylons. The producers have also hinted at a possible class struggle between the "skin-jobs" and the "centurions" and maybe the final five are the connection between the two.
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