BSG 4x11 Questions

[hjea]

Okay so wow, a lot happened. And apparently it's only supposed to get darker from here. Yay? I forget who first coined the phrase: "And you thought Buffy season six was dark" BUT THAT JUST KEEPS GETTING MORE APPROPRIATE AS THE SHOW GOES ON.




So... are we sure that Ellen is the final cylon? And it's not even that I'm bitter about it, I think Ellen Tight makes a really interesting choice. But just the way the reveal was set-up... I don't know I'm not wholly convinced. Because if she's the Final Fifth, then what is Starbuck? And seriously, what are the differences between the Final Five and the original seven. Is it merely that they originated from Earth versus the 12 colonies and therefore have slightly different evolutionary traits? Or is something more. And how did the seven know about them in the first place? And what's going on??

I should have faith that RDM will answer these questions in the next 9 episodes. I should have faith, but...

Comments

[katnicholson.livejournal.com]

LOL, I love the Starbuck petrified hair thing too. It was kind of "just in case you didn't guess who it was going to be, here's dead giveaway hair!"

I wasn't thrown so much by Ellen being the Fifth (if that's indeed what she is, I agree with hjea that it's not exactly written in stone yet) because I'd been wondering how the fifth managed to avoid hearing Sam's bulkhead song that time and figured whoever it was had to have been out of the fleet or dead at the time.

Mostly I was WTFed by the "there are no humans here" thing. If there were only Cylons there and they died 2,000 years ago, who made the Cylons? There had to have been real squishy people somewhere sometime. Computers don't invent themselves! And this whole cycle of humans and cylons creating/evolving messes with my brain in a "what came first, the chicken or the egg" sort of way.

Two things I loved about that episode though:

1) Tyrol bonding/hanging out with his crazy death shadow
2) Now in addition to being a famous sports player, freedom fighter, and viper pilot, Sam is now also apparently a former rockstar. Could be BE any more AWESOME?

[hjea.livejournal.com]

So I think the evidence points to Ellen definitely being the 5th cylon (unless RDM is straight up lying which... well, not out of the realm of possibility) and I'm cool with that. Now I'm just left wondering, well... Ellen is dead. So... OR IS SHE???!!!

Now in addition to being a famous sports player, freedom fighter, and viper pilot, Sam is now also apparently a former rockstar. Could be BE any more AWESOME?

Sam Anders > Everybody.

I think there's sufficient proof now.