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Who Is The 12th Cylon?
This week at work we’ve had unusually spirited discussions surrounding “Battlestar Galactica” that have roamed from plot lines and character development to more abstract ideas like what true AI machines would really want and the role of religion in shaping a culture. And it’s not just the geeks and nerds at work who are watching and asking these questions.
There have been other TV shows in the past that get normal people to collectively ask a question. “Dallas” in the 1980s had Who shot J.R.? and “Twin Peaks” had Who killed Laura Palmer?. With “BSG” as we call it, the question is Who is the 12th Cylon?. I’d like to publicly make my picks before he/she is revealed, possibly this Friday.
A big clue was revealed in the Entertainment Weekly “Last Supper” photo where there is a missing person at the table. President Laura Roslin was my favorite choice as the 12th at the end of last season, because she has strange shared visions linked with other known Cylons. But the Entertainment Weekly story rules her out. So here are my picks in descending order:
1) Admiral Cain - She’s psychotic and so amazingly uber-patriotic that as a Cylon she’s make an overwhelming enemy to humans. The writers put a lot of time into her for the special two-hour movie “Razor” last fall so bringing back her character would bring a lot of well-laid groundwork.
2) Zak Adama - They brought him up again last episode by asking Admiral Adama if he wouldn’t love his son even if he found out he was a Cylon. That could be foreshadowing and it puts Admiral Adama, Apollo, and Starbuck into a very weird place emotionally and might shake allegiances.
3) Bulldog - This minor character we saw in only one episode as a pilot who was captured by the Cylons years ago and who escaped to find the humans. He suffered a psychological breakdown and we haven’t seen him since. It would be easy to “activate” his character as a person who’s been working in the background, out of sight this entire time.
4) Lt. Commander Gaeta - It’s doubtful, but he’s always been around as the “good soldier” who is also brilliant. It might be interesting to see.
One of my co-workers suggested that the “trigger” song used to activate a dormant Cylon at the end of last season instead of “All Along the Watchtower” should have been a variation of Simon and Garfunkel’s (brace yourself) “The Sounds of Cylons.”
Also, everyone I’ve talked to agrees so far that Dualla would be a horrible choice to be the 12th Cylon. Tom Zarek might be a decent choice, too, but no one believes it will be for some reason. It’s a shame the show is on it’s last season, but it’s been an amazing ride.
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Did you notice Starbuck and her hubby are missing their huge arm tattoos in the Last Supper photo? I’m pretty sure they were on their left arms.
Lee.
I am going to say Dualla. Out of the 11, only 4 are female. Aside from Saul Tigh, don’t have a cylon on an operational level in the CIC. In the picture given by entertainment weekly, Roslin and Starbuck are already shown. My second guess will be Adm. Cain. She had a dicey/tragic childhood according to Razor. Almost too conveinent of a story. Oh, by the way, best show ever on tv. Even better than the A-Team and the O.G. Battlestar
Callie. I expect to see her waking up in a vat of goo, fully reborn. Tyrol was romantically involved with Boomer - perhaps Cylons are drawn to each other. After all, Callie pointed out to the doctor that she proposed to Tyrol even after he beat her. This would mean that Cylons have unknowingly progressed to where they can reproduce with each other. The Cylons have been obsessing over Hera as their next stage but Nicky would actuallly be the last stage for them - a fully human machine - raising some interesting issues as the Cylon civil war starts.
It’s Admiral Adama.
In the first season, when Baltar made his cylon detector, Roslin became suspicious of Adama after the cylon told her that it Adama was a cylon (not specifying if it was Lee or the Admiral). I believe, if memory serves, Adama got out of being tested on the cylon detector because Tigh’s wife, Ellen, was making trouble and being tested. So I don’t think Adama was ever actually confirmed yea or nea on that one.
It’s blatantly the president!!
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No way - it’s going to be Billy, Roslyn’s former aide. Wait and see.