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Really, all I want to know is what's up with the weird cylon-herpes that a bunch of the humans seem to have. OK, well, it might not be cylon-herpes, but a bunch of people including Starbuck and Ellen have been sporting weird mouth-bruises, and now Tigh and that other woman in the Circle had those little face-lesions. Then again, if it is cylon-herpes, what was woman-whose-name-I-don't-know doing sleeping with a cylon?

And as for the "next week on"s, a) presumably the "coincidence" that Baltar was talking about to Six is that they both had little phantom-versions of the other; b) why do the Cylons always want to live on whatever planet the humans are living on; and c) some of Elias' friends think that Baltar is a cylon because he couldn't have survived the nuclear blast otherwise. I say, "hmmmmm" and am dubious and doubtful.

Oh, and lastly, WHY DO THE OTHER FIVE UNKNOWN AND MYSTERIOUS CYLONS NOT HAVE A VOTE IN ANYTHING???

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jennyo.livejournal.com

Oh, and lastly, WHY DO THE OTHER FIVE UNKNOWN AND MYSTERIOUS CYLONS NOT HAVE A VOTE IN ANYTHING???

Cuz they're in ur fleet, subverting ur people, that's why.

Also, presumably, I think the big 7 have no idea who the other 5 are. Kind of in the Ben/Glory way.

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darcydodo

So that's the weird thing, right. I agree that from the outside, at least, it looks like they don't have the faintest clue who the other five are — but unless it's the weakest plot device in the world ("oh, we haven't introduced them to the audience, so for Unknown And Mysterious Reasons the cylons don't know who they are either") then there's got to be some really weird shit going on. So far they've been pulling cylons out of their asses without comment — Simon and Brother ~~Cadfael~~ Cavill in particular.

I'm still voting for the dog being a cylon-dog. ;)

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shoutingboy.livejournal.com

'some of Elias' friends think that Baltar is a cylon because he couldn't have survived the nuclear blast otherwise. I say, "hmmmmm" and am dubious and doubtful.'

I've heard that "how else did he survive the blast" theory before, and it never seemed compelling to me. I mean, he was in his fancy lakeside vacation cottage a long way from the city. It wasn't like the nuke was a direct hit. The danger was the glass blown in by the blast--enough to kill a person, but #6[*] shielded him, getting killed in the process. Seems plausible enough to me.

That said, I don't watch the "next week on"s, so maybe I missed a clue that you saw.

'WHY DO THE OTHER FIVE UNKNOWN AND MYSTERIOUS CYLONS NOT HAVE A VOTE IN ANYTHING???'

I wonder about that. It's possible that Xena said "we're split 3:3" because the five missing models are very hush-hush, so she doesn't even allude to them in a human's presence. (i.e. The council was really split 5:5, with two abstentions.) Or maybe the missing models are so deep-secret that the seven we know about--or some of them, anyway--don't ever get to meet them, precisely because the seven we know about could leak that information to the humans.

Or maybe the writers just screwed up.

I do hope none of the existing human stars turn out to be surprise cylons. They haven't really pulled that stunt on us. Every time we meet a new Cylon model, we find out what it is by the end of the episode--even Boomer, the one big "oh noes" surprise, was revealed at the end of the pilot. Brother Cynic, Xena, Paternal Negro Doctor--all were revealed as Cylons in the episodes that introduced them. I think it'd be kind of lame to suddenly tell us that, say, Dualla's a Cylon. The groundwork isn't really there for any of them (except possibly Baltar--and not even there, I think).

[*] Who is #1?

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darcydodo

That said, I don't watch the "next week on"s, so maybe I missed a clue that you saw.

Well, I agree with you that Baltar's probably not a cylon, but in the Next Week, he was apparently asking Six if he's a cylon, in that panicky voice that only Baltar can do so well.