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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Lee: [QB] Think Frankenstein and Pinocchio. Frankenstein respresents humanity, creating new life but being ultimately destroyed by it; Pinocchio is that new life, wanting to be human (Data is of course the archetypal SF Pinocchio). The Cylons are simultaneously Frankenstein's monster and Pinocchio, wanting to be human and replacing the original humans in the process. And once they are to all intents and purposes human, they start to make the same mistakes, forget the past (and fail to learn from its mistakes) and the cycle begins again. . . The Twelve Colonies represent a few human survivors, presumably via Kobol. They too forget the past and set off down the same path as their forebears (experimenting with AI and downloaded human personalities, if what we know of the prequel show Caprica is correct) and soon re-create their own Cylons. The survival of any original humans at all may have been intentional - like the Architect's requirement for Neo to choose a handful of humans to begin the cycle of Matrix and Zion again. And, just as there were original humans to begin the cycle of humanity-to-Cylon again, so too were there a few Cylon survivors of the previous iteration, who presumably are there to try to break the cycle - the Final Five. So, to really hypothesize here, how about this: perhaps the Final Five weren't the only original-Cylon survivors. Perhaps more survived, hidden among the humans all the time, trying to perpetuate the cycle - but this time "get it right." "All this has happened before, and will happen again" say the Significant Seven, and they have their Plan (which seems to have been largely derailed by events). In this theory, the "Head" characters become the Architect in our Matrix analogy. And/or Cavil who seems to occupy a position of seniority among the Seven and is most fanatical about the Plan. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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