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I was under the impression that the ships couldn't jump from outside the cluster to the planet on the other side due to the immense gravity wells of so many stars so close together. They could get sucked into a planet if they didn't plot their course right. So I think that's why they had to jump into the cluster, navigate a bit, then jump out: they navigated through the most intense section of the cluster, gravity-wise.
As for why they needed to make round trips, that seemed pretty obvious to me: Galactica can't hold 50000 people. And even if it could, there aren't enough Raptors/pilots to have one per ship in the fleet.
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And as to why they couldn't go around the cluster instead, they said that would take too long, and everyone would've starved to death. (Well, half of them could've... )
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That's exactly what I meant when I said "half"!
Also, to go back to the objection to the prediction of the timing of the upcoming nova, I have no problem believing that it's possible to have a much more solid and reliable model of star behavior if you have the chance to send people out there to do observations. All we can do is sit on our hands and watch the show, here on Earth. But if you've got a science ship actually watching a nova from a few AUs away (and then jumping out before getting fried), then you'll learn a lot more and be able to predict with much greater precision when the actual explosion could happen.
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I'm going to be pissed if ANY of the recurring characters turns out to be a Cylon at this point. Even minor ones like Gaeta have had some good, meaty scenes developing their depth. Making them a closet Cylon completely destroys that and makes them into a completely different character.
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Well, we know Adama won't launch the nukes (at least not at the planet) because Sam and Apollo still have to duke it out over Starbuck, and the ground party has to come to fisticuffs with the centurions... My guess is that the Old Man's gonna launch against the BaseShips, and then extract the folks down below while the Cylons recover.
The temple, as a matter of course, will be destroyed... we all know what Cylons do to planets 'infested' by humans.
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I think Tyrol is gonna accidentally activate a shield or something.
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Dualla will turn out to be a Cylon.
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Her near-obsessive need to have someone, anyone, fall in love with her would seem to suggest that; but at this stage, if she did turn out to be one, it'd almost be a let-down. She's TOO obvious.
This idea of the Final Five being so deep-cover that even the Other Seven don't know who they are means, in theory, that a lot of the "x can't be a Cylon because y" arguments can be rendered invalid (I'd give examples, but it's late and I'm tired and can't remember any). I'm however thinking that instead someone now dead, and missed by all, will suddenly reappear very much alive and thus be revealed as one of the Final Five. Someone like Billy, or Jammer, or Ellen Tigh. Someone whose death had a resonance that will be invalidated by the fact it was all, at the end of the day, a sham.
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That's an interesting idea, but I still disagree. Those characters still had great depth for their relatively minor roles, and the shock value of bringing them back doesn't cancel out the fact that their previous characterization would still be wiped out.
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I'm not sure that the thing about the final 5 is even that they're deep cover agents at all. I'm thinking maybe there was a schism early on, maybe even before the end of the last war and they either just left for parts unknown or fled to the colonies and wiped their memories.
Another theory occus, what if they're not the final five but the FIRST five? Which could mean the reason that the Seven can't talk about them is that they don't know them, meaning the 5 were the ones who created the other 7. Just an idea.
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Except that D'Anna is Number Three, remember?
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And Sharon is Number Eight. If the numbers are consecutive or chronological in any way then wouldn't the final 5 include numbers Eight through Twelve?
So either the Sharons are one of the five or the numbers themselves aren't significant.
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