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Michael writes in with a comment on the article that was responsible for the site going down briefly about a week ago — my final Cylon theory.

I like your theory, in fact, I like it a lot. BUT, Ron Moore mentioned none of the people in “The Last Supper” photo are the final Cylon. Helo is in that photo. That’s a pretty big veto unless you believe Ron is purposely lying to fans.

I wouldn’t put it past Ron Moore, good Reader, to mislead people a little bit, especially if there was a danger of too much being revealed in some way. Equally, it’s entirely possible he was telling the truth. I do know that he later remarked that he “probably shouldn’t have said” what he said about the people in “The Last Supper,” but whether that was because he felt he’d given too much away or because he had now put himself into a position whereby he’d have to contradict himself later on, I can’t say.

I am aware, at any rate, of what Ron Moore did say, and I admit that it’s a rather obvious counter-argument to my theory — a veto, as Michael puts it.

I suppose we’ll have to wait until late 2008 or early 2009 to find out who the final Cylon really is. And for the record, Karl Agathon — Helo, as he is also known — is still my principal suspect.

In looking over my theory, it could be argued that the same reasoning could also be applied, in many cases, to Cally Tyrol, and certainly her revelation as a Cylon would be rather dramatic in light of the fact that she was airlocked (killed) by Tory Foster a couple of episodes ago. The first Cylon hybrid spoke of how the final Cylon’s revelation would take place: “And the fifth, still in shadow, will claw toward the light, hungering for redemption that will only come in the howl of terrible suffering.”

Certainly, there has been a lot of terrible suffering on the part of those whom Cally is survived by — Galen Tyrol, the Chief, her husband, spent all of the last episode (Escape Velocity) cracking at the seams, and certainly Nicholas Tyrol, the baby, is going to suffer in the absence of his mother.

And I take Cally as my “hedge bet” as to who the final Cylon is. Of course, my main objection to her being the last Cylon is that we do not know anything at all about whether the Final Five can resurrect, or whether there exists a Resurrection Ship or Resurrection Hub at which copies of the bodies of the Final Five are stored (one has difficulty imagining that this could be the case, given that it would risk the possibility that one or more of the Significant Seven would have seen the faces of the Five).

And, unlike Helo, Cally isn’t in “The Last Supper” as well.

Regardless, I think the main point here is that whoever the final Cylon is revealed to be, he (or, possibly) she will be the part of one of the babies currently believed to by half-Cylon and half-human. The whole series has revolved around the issue of the “humanity” of the Cylons and their apparently inability to reproduce. I think that the revelation of the final Cylon will necessarily accompany the additional (and simultaneous) revelation that Cylons can, in fact, reproduce successfully.

And I still think that Hera will be revealed as the fully Cylon child, given that Season 3 spent an awful lot of time trying to build up her significance. I’ve only read the first Dune book, but it seems to me that there is a parallel between the Kwisatz Haderach and what Hera is.

Which brings us back to Helo.

So, did Ron Moore lie to us? Time will tell…but I will say that I have no problem believing that Ron Moore is trying to deflect speculation down incorrect avenues.

~ by Kenneth on April 30, 2008.