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kityglitr
01/12/09

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Sure, that works if they were using the Greek system. I spent long nights trying to unravel the 12 cylon models as the 12 human personality archetypes posited by Jung. No simple and easy task, I tell you. Each archetype aligns with at least 2 models, with the exception of Six, who has just GOT to be the Lover.
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Shiryu
01/12/09

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The final Cylon is... Dirk Bennedict! :o
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twophrasebark
01/11/09

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The final cylon got left behind accidentally on Caprica after the war. He was heading for the Galactica as part of The Plan and then he remembered he forgot his, um, allergy medicine and went back to his apartment. Yeah. So anyway, he missed his ride.

So like it's all one big misunderstanding. Really. He was going to explain the whole thing to everyone in episode 3 of the first season.

Anyway, I don't know where he is now but he left a message on his answering machine explaining everything and how to avoid "this all happening again." You can reach him at CYLON-75.
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Moff
01/11/09

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The problem with the "It's all a cycle and this all happened in our past" theories, to my mind, is how do you explain, like, fossils and geological evidence of evolution and so forth?

Maybe some of the theories get into that? I haven't read them very closely.
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Dr Emilio Lizardo
01/11/09

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I've actually thought alot about that last theory. The whole series has been about allegory and role reversal of the current american political-religious situation, I figured it all started with us, on earth then a diaspora, then the cylons invented, then people com back to earth. A destroyed earth fits in perfectly and the whole circular nature is covered by "all this has happened before, and will happen again."

There are a lot of ways you can go with the details, but I think this is where we are heading.
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Moff
01/11/09

@DrEmilioLizardo: It definitely sounds plausible. They'll have to execute it very, very well for it not to be a let-down, 'cause the transcendental-cyclical thing has become a bit of a trope, and for better or worse, audiences expect Awesome Surprises these days.
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Davio
01/11/09

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I want the whole cast altogether, speculating who it is. Then as the episode closes, Adama looks to the camera and goes... "The final cylon... is YOU!"

Que cheering and party poppers.
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Davio
01/11/09

@Davio:

Woops sorry Moff, read this article before yours!

Thought I was being so goddamn original too... goit.
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Moff
01/11/09

@Davio: I fear there are people who beat both of us to it. But I do like your execution better than mine, as long as Adama also smiles and gives the camera big thumbs-up. :-)
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