This is the final season of the most awesome show that B.W.E. just refuses to watch and/or like. It boggles my mind that she won’t watch this show but she will watch LOST, another great Speculative Fiction show. One of the big questions, if not THE big question of the entire show at this point is who is the Final Cylon. If you have not watched any of this season or even the end of last season you probably will not want to go on. Come back later, we’re open all night.
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Ok all set? Great. As I was saying, perhaps the greatest question here is “Who is the Final Cylon”?
Everyone has their theories, and if you are at least a nominal fan of the show, you will have your own suspicions. I am here to not tell you the way it is, but to tell you my suspicions. Here is the thing about the show:
No one is safe, expect the unexpected.
I will list some of the most likely candidates.
President Roslin:
Perhaps an obvious choice. The leader of the last human colony is the Final Cylon. I know that many favour this choice but to me it just doesn’t jive. I see no clues that Roslin has any Cylon in her. I think if the people behind BSG made her the Final Cylon, it would be lazy writing. Roslin is a really great character and a wonderful foil for Adama Sr.
Bill Adama
I wouldn’t say that this choice would be as obvious, but if this were true, that would make Lee and his brother Hybrids and wouldn’t that mess with your head? The show needs a hero and Adama is that hero he is old, he is tough, and he is wise. He brings great balance to the Roslin aspect of the show.
Kara Thrace
This one would be the MOST obvious choice. She appeared to die, she came back, she is possessed with a drive to prove her humanity, she fears she is a cylon.
Gaius Baltar
The newly anointed spiritual leader of a small sect of people is another obvious choice. He has been such a perfect villain that it is natural to believe it possible that he COULD be the Final Cylon. He is the only character to have that aspect of his personality that only we (and he) could see. What I found interesting in the previous episode was when his 6 kept picking him up so that he could rally his followers after getting beat down by the guard time and again. We have never seen him appear to be physically manipulated by his visions, if you disregard the time he was “interrupted” back in Season One.
Callie Tyrol
After her death there are rumours that we have not seen the last of her. I say meh.
So out of all these who do I pick?
None of them.
Tom Zarek. Tom Zarek is the Final Cylon. Of course, this is all speculation but there was something that really drove the point home to me the other day. I was watching episode 3 as Tom and Lee sat in a boardroom discussing the nature of President Roslin. Zarek enters the room cloaked in shadow. He is clearly manipulating the Presidency as he says Roslin made him Vice President to keep him on the sidelines when we all know this to be untrue.
“Trust me. Better yet, trust yourself. Because that’s what I’m really counting on. That you’re not the kind of man who can ignore the truth when it’s staring you in the face.”
One thing the good people behind BSG have always maintained is that this iteration of BSG is not a remake. The mantra is:
“What has happened before is happening now and will happen again”.
What if the old series and the new are tied together? They have often made that allusion to the shows being related. What if what we used to see as Apollo is just another Skinjob? Here’s something that will mess you up even more. What if the skinjob ENDS UP being Apollo, not Jamie Bamber that is but Richard Hatch? What if the series we are watching RIGHT NOW happens BEFORE the Battlestar Galactica of the 70’s/80’s? As I said, I have no proof or evidence to back this theory up but man, wouldn’t that blow your mind?
I guess we’ll see in a few months time.
See you then
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