Time Immortal

Dani writes in again to follow up on my previous reply to him.

Hi again!

Just say thank you for reply. And hey, that’s the Net, right? No real distances at all, just a few mouse clicks!!

About The Last Supper and the Moore sentences, I just feel like you. But maybe more near to “unknown details about the actual Cylon nature” will explain that point. Will see…

Not very agree with that suggestion that Cally could also be the final one. I think it would be just anti-climax because she was a really secondary character, and also a dead character and how could D’Anna knows that?

No way mate, Helo is the one

Regards,
Dani

PS: For a deep analysis to the Last Supper I recommend you: www.spacewesterns.com/articles/60/

And for a different analysis to the series: www.galacticavariants.blogspot.com

I do recommend the reader check out both sites. The first provides some rather interesting speculation, although I disagree with the conclusion that Starbuck is the final Cylon. The second doesn’t seem to have any one suspect in mind, but it does do some interesting analysis (although it seems a bit cynical about the religious aspects of the series, which I think will be much more relevant to the outcome than simply being rejected as pathways to humanity’s destruction).

The second link talks about a theory that has been percolating through the rumour mill, the idea that Kara Thrace will find her own body on Earth in the ruins of a Viper. But whereas some see this as possible evidence of her Cylonity, I tend to think instead of Count Iblis from the original Battlestar Galactica, and how he was ultimately exposed as a demon disguised in the body of a human whose ship had crashed on a deserted world.

The second link rejects the “Kara = Cylon” theory, but espouses the theory that the extant Kara Thrace currently aboard Galactica is a clone of the original, possibly the handiwork of the final Cylon. This would seem to imply that the final Cylon is not currently on Galactica, and therefore unknown to us, and for that reason I tend to be skeptical of the idea.

My own theory about this is that Kara, like Iblis, is an avatar of some kind. But whereas Iblis was an avatar for a malevolent being, I think Kara is an avatar for a benevolent, and perhaps even beneficient, being. Of course, I’m not entirely sure how that jives with the Hybrid’s prophecy that she is the “harbinger of the apocalypse”…although I suppose that in the end, that the God of the Battlestar universe might just have sent an angel to show people the way “home”.

This goes to my feeling that BSG is an eschatological myth for our times, of course.

I more or less agree, now, with Dani’s observation about Cally — while she was a hedge-bet of mine for a while, there’s almost no way she could be the missing Cylon model, especially now that the Cylons have lost the ability to resurrect.