Time Immortal

jeff writes in with a comment about my final Cylon theory. I have cut down the text of his letter, because the rest of it concerned an issue I had already addressed — the Last Supper photograph and its relevance to the identity of the Final Cylon in Battlestar Galactica.

one thing that might be interesting-
maybe the cylons can only reproduce with a final 5 cylon model? cause they are closer to human? sharon+helo = hera, tigh+caprica(?)=new baby

One interesting theory I tripped over is that the Final Five are “first run” humanoid Cylon models, and that they were deemed to, in essence, be “too human” — and so were mind-wiped and dumped into the Colonies. Discussion of them was, thus, forbidden.

It’s a theory with some merit (certainly, I think it makes more sense than the idea that the Final Five are “Earth Cylons” — although I do have confidence that if that is the actual truth of the matter, Ron Moore will present it to us in a stylish, acceptable way), although I do have one minor gripe with it: the handful of decades between the first and second wars with the Cylons does not seem to be a long enough time for a comprehensive mythology pertaining to the Final Five to have formed.

The theory, though, that the Final Five are “more human” (if that term makes sense) than the Significant Seven Cylons does have some merit for the reasons that jeff points out: perhaps it is only the Final Five that can interbreed with their fellow Cylons, perhaps due to something fundamentally different in their nature.

I guess we will have to wait and see.