Time Immortal

polyeggman writes in with his thoughts on this article, my initial final Cylon theory.

You’ve convinced me! It’s been bugging me that Hera is seen as special considering Tyrol’s baby is also a half and half. And, in all my final-Cylon ponderings, I never once considered Helo. That makes him the perfect dark horse. Thanks for the article!

polyeggman is quite welcome! It’s good to hear that he found the theory useful.

In fairness, Ron Moore threw us a bit of a curve ball this season by focusing more closely on Nicholas Tyrol in the last few episodes. From the way that Tory Foster went out of her way to safely secure baby Nicholas before airlocking Cally Tyrol, to the way that Gaius Baltar’s broadcast seemed to soothe Nicholas while the Chief was exercising, there’s been more than a little screen time devoted to the other apparently half-human, half-Cylon child.

And to be equally fair, I did concede that Cally is my second bet for who the last Cylon might be. Whether Nicholas or Hera Agathon, I think the final Cylon will in some way be related to the theme of Cylon reproduction that has permeated the entire series.

And it serves, also, to note that we really haven’t seen much of Hera in this latest, and final, season of Battlestar Galactica.

Personally, though, I think that Nicholas is being served up as a red herring. All of the third season of BSG was devoted to making Hera out to be “special” — to the point, indeed, that Laura Roslin, Sharon Agathon, and Caprica Six were all running through the same dream state in a desperate attempt to protect the child (from what is not yet known).

I expect that Cylon reproduction will come into very sharp focus if, as is currently rumoured, one of the last episodes of the first half of the fourth and final season of BSG will deal with the destruction of the Cylon Resurrection Hub, without which no Cylon can resurrect even if a Resurrection Ship is present (in essence, the Cylons would be rendered “mortal”).

Cylon reproduction hasn’t been visited, as a topic, for a few episodes now, but things seem to be shaping up in such a way that the topic may indeed be re-opened with a new and drastic sense of urgency, if in fact the Colonial fleet succeeds in destroying the Hub.

At any rate, O Reader, at the end of it all, I think various plot threads will converge in the revelation of the last “toaster.” The hunt for the final Cylon is on. The Cylons desire to be able to reproduce. The Cylon civil war is raging, and the split has pitted three models against another three — one side has already demonstrated its willingness to use denial of resurrection capability as a battle tactic, and it stands to reason that before the end of the war both sides will have attempted to turn the issue of resurrection to their tactical advantage.

And in a sense, Karl Agathon is already in the middle of it, as both he and Athena are a part of Starbuck’s crew on the Demetrius — which, the Reader may recall, just met up with a representative of the rebel Cylon faction.