The fifth Cylon

This post will probably only make any sense/appeal to those of you who are fans of Battlestar Galactica. If you are a fan and haven't watched the season premiere for the second half of season 4, you should stop reading this NOW!

I finally got around to watching the season premiere of the last season of BSG last night. Holy shit was it good! The utter despair of everyone upon finding the blackened and unlivable Earth was told in a very moving way, culminating with Dee's suicide, an event that was truly shocking. When it happened, I initially thought someone else had shot her. I had to rewind it again to understand what had just happened.

The question of who the final Cylon is was finally revealed. My money had been on Kara Thrace since the first four of the final five were revealed. When it turned out to be Tigh's wife Ellen, I had a definite WTF? moment. I never really liked either character very much (Tigh or Ellen) so that was somewhat disappointing. I just read an interview with the show's writers where they went into a little more depth about that story and it makes more sense now. I'm still a little bummed out though.

Speaking of Kara - what the hell is going with her? So she found her crashed Viper on Earth containing her dead body. So who is the Starbuck who's walking around now? I think it's going to turn out that humans are a Cylon creation - at least as far as the Earth Cylons go. The whole "this has all happened before and will happen again" theme that has run throughout the show. The idea of "the final five" is Cylon mythology akin to the Pythian prophecies the humans were following to find Earth. The human prophecies turned out to be bullshit, why not the Cylon's too? Either way, Earth was nuked 2,000 years ago so it's still hard to explain where the "new" Kara comes from.

I'm really looking forward to the final 9 episodes of this season. If you watch the show, share your theories for how things will play out in the comments.